Conservation Activity News Today

Van Long Nature Reserve in northern Ninh Binh Province was the first site in Southeast Asia to be named to the list

Green List Status is not just a conservation label but a holistic management approach that addresses the interconnectedness of protected areas, environmental health and human well-being.

The survey confirms what has been widely suspected for many years – that populations of several key wildlife species have either disappeared or are in such low numbers as to be unviable as a result of widespread indiscriminate snaring.

The survey also discovered the absence of large carnivores and herbivores, such as tigers, clouded leopards, Asiatic wild dogs, and the elusive saola

The Asian Elephant Alliance (AEA) calls for partnership and collective action as it acknowledges that the challenges faced by the elephants in our region cannot be solved in isolation.

DANANG (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) is launching the Asian Elephant Alliance (AEA) to secure a future in which loss and fragmentation of elephant habitats is reduced, people and elephants live side by side in a sustainable way, and wild elephant populations are stable.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the University of Georgia approximately $5 million for the implementation of a program entitled Higher Education for Conservation Activity (HECA) in Liberia.

Designating an area as legally protected is a key step toward creating a safe haven for threatened habitats and wildlife. But it needs more than that. Protected areas must also be effectively managed so that countries can deliver on their national and global biodiversity targets. And at a time of growing scrutiny over human rights and nature conservation, they must be fairly governed and managed. But how can you tell if a protected area is effective? How can we help improve all types of protect...

THUA THIEN-HUE (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): The saola, one of the world’s rarest animals, is getting a critical emergency boost from the European Union, Re:wild and WWF-Vietnam to prevent its extinction.

The saola, one of the world’s rarest animals, is getting a critical emergency boost from the European Union, Re:wild and WWF-Viet Nam to prevent its extinction.