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South Africa is faced with the critical task of expanding its natural environment protection areas in a practical and affordable manner to safeguard its vital biodiversity and ecosystem services. These services encompass carbon sequestration, clean air, healthy soils, fresh water, pollinating insect populations, and grazing-friendly grasslands, all of which are essential for the well-being and survival of the country's population.

IIED and partners have launched a new version of their Site-level Assessment of Governance and Equity (SAGE) tool, which enables frontline stakeholders and rightsholders to improve the governance and equity of nature conservation. In this blog, Phil Franks argues that bottom-up approaches like this will be crucial for achieving the 30x30 target of the new Global Biodiversity Framework

Protected areas critical to the country’s biodiversity and conservation efforts are being badly mismanaged, says the Endangered Wildlife Trust

There are more than 400 provincial parks and reserves in SA. They play a vital role in holding together the increasingly tattered web of nature.

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...

The Dasgupta Review, a seminal study published earlier this year, found that global “natural capital” per capita has declined by almost 40% over the past 30 years, even as “produced capital”, and the global economy more broadly, recorded booming growth.

Macquarie University/The Lighthouse Macquarie University research has identified a pressing need to increase funding for conservation parks in Southeast Asia to avoid further extinction of endandered animals. Conservation parks are supposed to help bring endangered species back from the brink. Sometimes it works. Sometimes, tragically, it doesn’t. In danger: Elephants are among the big animals at risk of continuing to disappear unless conservation parks are better resourced, research shows. M...