https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyqqgeD1GQzkUZXwx9WLPXg/playlists The video recordings from the World Parks Congress stream on ‘Reaching Conservation Goals’ are progressively being posted to the u-tube channel with links above. The management effectiveness stream has not yet been uplooaded,
FLglobalstudyWPC At the World Parks Congress in Sydney last November, Fiona presented a lecture about the Global Study into Protected Area Management Effectiveness. There was a lot of interest in the topic, and a copy of the powerpoint is posted here.
A paper published in the latest edition of Parks featured authors from the Protected Area Solutions team working alongside our colleagues at WCMC and WWF, Congratulations especially to K and Lauren for pulling it together in a tight deadline http://parksjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/PARKS-20.2-Knights-et-al-10.2305IUCN.CH_.2014.PARKS-20-2.KK_.en_.pdf
It was great to hear Thomas Friedman talking at the World Parks Congress last week. If only we had some more press recognising the importance of keeping – and expanding – our protected areas! Read his article
Is This The Breakthrough That Brings Solar Power To The World.
United Nations News Centre – UN convention agrees to double biodiversity funding, accelerate preservation measures.
A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets. Tittensor, D.P., Walpole, M., Hill, S.L.L., Boyce, D.G., Britten, G.L et al (51 authors with Fiona Leverington a very minor contributor!) In 2010 the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets. We projected indicator trends to 2020 using…
PLOS ONE: Local Scale Comparisons of Biodiversity as a Test for Global Protected Area Ecological Performance: A Meta-Analysis. Coetzee, BW, Gaston, KJ, Chown, SL. Published: August 27, 2014. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105824 Terrestrial protected areas (PAs) are cornerstones of global biodiversity conservation. Their efficacy in terms of maintaining biodiversity is, however, much debated. Studies to date have been unable to provide a general answer as to PA conservation efficacy because of their typically restricted geographic and/or taxonomic focus, or qualitative approaches…