Our conservation experts highlight four species that governments recently recognized need greater protections and explain how these decisions can lead to positive outcomes for the world’s long-distance migrants The only global treaty focused exclusively on the conservation of migratory species recently brought governments together in Campo Grande, Brazil. A team of experts represented the UN…
Most conservation data are biased and unjust. Jasmin Upton and Sol Fernandez share how the Protected Planet Initiative at UNEP-WCMC is addressing data justice for protected and conserved areas. Data are never an unbiased representation of the world. Rather, datasets are the result of decisions regarding what can and should be measured and often represent…
Achievement is an urgent reminder that protected and conserved areas at sea need to triple by 2030
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Our Conservation and Policy teams travel to Brazil this week to support the 15th meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species. They share insights from their work ahead of this important event.
New designations reported by Australia to the World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas mean the world is near to protecting 10 per cent of the ocean
Half of all migratory species that are recognised as needing protection now have declining populations A new report warns that 49 per cent of migratory species recognised by the world’s governments as needing protection have declining populations, up from 44 per cent two years ago. Species threatened by extinction have also risen, to 24 per…
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There have been exciting new changes for Protected Planet, including a bringing together and rebrand of the flagship databases into the World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas. These changes will streamline the reporting process for data providers, expand the options for data analysis, and provide added transparency around the impact of protected and conserved areas (PCAs) on the world’s biodiversity.…
UNEP-WCMC experts contribute to new protections for a range of species at CITES CoP20. A team of UNEP-WCMC biodiversity experts travelled to Samarkand, a major city in Uzbekistan, for the 20th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP20). The Convention…
How we are working to support gender equality and champion the leadership of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
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