The study found that 91% of the nearly 10,000 protected areas studied lost no or less natural land than similar but unprotected areas—a conservation win. But perhaps surprisingly, almost half the ...

The five Mekong countries lost nearly 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of tree cover in 2024, with nearly a quarter of which was primary forest, and more than 30% of losses occurring inside ...

A new study reveals that more than 40% of land across nine Amazonian countries is under some form of conservation management, significantly higher than the 28% reported in official records. The ...

"The Allegany Wildlands is the first forest we are going to protect as part of that bigger, broader Wildway concept," said Jajean Rose-Burney, the organization's deputy executive director. "We will ...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (WKRG) — Still more land on Dauphin Island is permanently protected through a conservation partnership between the South Alabama Land Trust and Dauphin Island Bird Sanctuaries, ...

Canada will need to protect another 1.7 million square kilometres, an area the size of Alaska, to meet its conservation ...

The concept of protecting marine areas from fishing and other human activities is not new. In the nonmarket economies of island nations in Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia), measures to ...