Welcome, members of the press, to the launch of the Protected Planet Report on the side-lines of Convention on Biological Diversity COP 16, during which the world is looking to speed up implementation ...

In 2009, the CCAMLR pledged to create “a representative network” of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, yet negotiations over four proposed MPAs have been at a standstill for years ...

The Protected Planet Report 2024 reveals that 17.6% of land and inland waters and 8.4% of the ocean and coastal areas globally are within documented protected and conserved areas. The increase in ...

"[But] the species has now been protected for 25 years [so] you would expect that the population is slowly recovering." Despite the lack of a complete population picture, a 2018 CSIRO study ...