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A new chapter for protected area management effectiveness!

November 19, 2013

conservation issues, management effectiveness

Protected Area Solutions, in partnership with UniQuest, is currently finalising a contract to continue the previous work of some of our members on the international scope of protected area management effectiveness. We will be working with the World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge UK and an advisory group to further develop and update the databases on management effectiveness generally and the management effectiveness tracking tool specifically, so we can analayse and report on how protected areas are faring worldwide.

Heading to New Guinea

November 11, 2013

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conservation issues, reserve types, World Heritage Sites

Andrea together with our associates Ann and Greg Peterson flew up to Port Moresby today and will spend the week there meeting with UNDP and senior government officials. We are kicking off our contract to assist PNG finalise their protected area policy. Ann and Greg will be conducting four regional workshops to get some more input from stakeholders. It’s been a flurry of activity getting everything organised, with Fiona and Melitta also banging the keyboards into the night.

BIENVENUE DANS L’OUTBACK | QUEENSLAND

September 10, 2013

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conservation issues, culture, fun

BIENVENUE DANS L’OUTBACK | QUEENSLAND. Click on the links to see the great short video made by ‘Ranger’ Eliza from France about her visit to western Queensland, inlcuding Bladensburg and Diamantina National Parks.

Wilderness areas ‘need humans to thrive’ › News in Science ABC Science

July 23, 2013

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Wilderness areas ‘need humans to thrive’ › News in Science ABC Science.

Great Barrier Reef’s condition declined from moderate to poor in 2011 | Environment | guardian.co.uk

July 11, 2013

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Climate chnge, conservation issues, management effectiveness, World Heritage Sites

Great Barrier Reef’s condition declined from moderate to poor in 2011 | Environment | guardian.co.uk. Series of reports blames extreme weather conditions and high rainfall for reef’s poor health Great Barrier Reef’s condition declined from moderate to poor in 2011 Series of reports blames extreme weather conditions and high rainfall for reef’s poor health Oliver Laughland, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 July 2013 18.02 AEST Extreme weather conditions have been largely blamed for the Great Barrier Reef’s poor health in 2011. Photograph:…

Fire, carbon and Indigenous livelihoods in the Top End Alan Andersen – See more at: http://www.ecosmagazine.com/?paper=EC13150#sthash.3VSoTQjZ.dpuf

July 11, 2013

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Climate chnge, conservation issues

ECOS Magazine – Towards A Sustainable Future. For hundreds of thousands of years, dry-season burning has shaped the ecology of the Northern Territory’s Top End. Now, through its role in carbon abatement, controlled burning is playing an important role in the region’s economy, especially in remote Aboriginal communities. – See more at: http://www.ecosmagazine.com/?paper=EC13150#sthash.3VSoTQjZ.dpuf For hundreds of thousands of years, dry-season burning has shaped the ecology of the Northern Territory’s Top End. Now, through its role in carbon abatement, controlled burning…

New article about Australian NPs in Nature

June 28, 2013

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conservation issues, management effectiveness

Conservation: Relaxed laws imperil Australian wildlife : Nature : Nature Publishing Group. Conservation: Relaxed laws imperil Australian wildlife Euan G. Ritchie published in Nature 498, 434 (27 June 2013) doi:10.1038/498434d Published online 26 June 2013 Policy and legislative changes by Australia’s state governments are eroding the vital protection of the country’s unique biodiversity. Reserves are being opened up to ecologically disruptive activities, such as grazing by domestic livestock, logging, mining, recreational hunting and fishing, and commercial development. Protected habitats on…

Burke backs down on national park powers

June 19, 2013

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conservation issues

Environment Minister Tony Burke has been forced to back down on attempts to extend federal powers over national parks after cabinet rejected the move on Monday night. Mr Burke had been considering ways to extend oversight of parks under national environment law after his vocal attacks on Coalition state government-led grazing, shooting and logging projects in national parks. One option had been to back or replicate a Greens amendment in the Senate to create a national parks ”trigger” under federal…

Article from The Guardian UK

June 19, 2013

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conservation issues

‘Parks are our natural heritage, our “biological bank. We should not play Russian roulette with Australia’s national parks’ | Open letter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Recent laws allowing hunting and logging in our parks are misguided. Our reserves protect biological diversity and shouldn’t be used otherwise Emma Johnston, Corey J A Bradshaw and others guardian.co.uk, Monday 17 June 2013 11.23 AEST Nambung national park, Australia. Photograph: Robert Essel/Corbis The Commonwealth environment minister has recently suggested that the federal…

Updating the state of Australia’s climate

June 19, 2013

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Climate chnge, conservation issues

by Leslie Hughes http://theconversation.com/updating-the-state-of-australias-climate-15233 Two years ago the Climate Commission released its first major report, The Critical Decade: Climate Science Risks and Responses. The report synthesised the most recent climate change science. The phrase, “The Critical Decade”, has become the defining mantra for the Climate Commission: the climate needs significant Australian and global action this decade. Two years on, and one quarter of the way through the decade, we have systematically updated the report. One quarter of the way through…