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2024 marks a pivotal moment in global governance. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reports more than 50 countries, or just more than half of the global population, are about to

A new NASA program is helping researchers more accurately calculate how much planet-warming carbon protected areas are storing. It’s a lot.

In 2022, the world’s nations committed to protecting 30% of their land and sea by 2030 (the so-called “30×30” initiative). At sea, this will require a massive buildup of marine protected areas (MPAs), and countries have been announcing new ones regularly. But there’s also a different, less familiar option for meeting the 30% target: “other […]

Virachey National Park is a rare untouched wilderness in Southeast Asia, but potential hydropower plans threaten its future.

President Biden named two new national monuments in 2023 as part of a plan to conserve 30 percent of U.S. land by 2030. Here's what land could be next.

In my view, 30x30 policymakers should act boldly and include large protected area targets in current policies.

Here’s what it takes to conserve those much-needed acres.

Poland's ruling coalition suggest that the EU was going to change the law in a way that it allowed Brussels to claim the total control over Polish forests.

In 2022, the UN signed a landmark agreement that aims to protect at least 30% of the planet’s land and water by 2030

JEDDAH: The King Salman bin Abdulaziz Royal Reserve Development Authority has been added to the World Database on Protected Areas. It is the first Saudi reserve to be registered on the global website, the official source for data on protected lands with government agencies and international organizations.