As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persist Mike DiGirolamo 4 Feb 2025 For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants ...

Africa: Protected Areas, ... The first UN List of Protected Areas was published in 1962. ... The data can be viewed and downloaded via the online map viewer, Protected planet www.protectedplanet.net.

As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persist. Mike DiGirolamo 4 Feb 2025. For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of ...

Protected areas in Africa are too small to safeguard rapidly declining vulture populations. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 06 / 220627100235.htm.

Africa. Arab States. Asia & Pacific. ... World Heritage Online Map Platform. Interactive Map. World Heritage in Danger. The List in Danger. Reporting & Monitoring. State of Conservation. Periodic ...

They found that individual home ranges can be as large as 75,000 km² and thus significantly exceed existing protected areas. These results are published in the journal “Biological Conservation”.

Such events are commonly known as protected area downgrading, downsizing and degazettement. So bad has the situation become that a website has been set up to track and map each transgression, or ...

More than 100 000 protected areas have been established to date across the world, according to a United Nations report released at the fifth World Parks Congress in Durban -- but none of the top ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 28, No. 4 (April 2022), pp. 782-792 (11 pages) Aim: A fundamental challenge to protected area-based conservation is that protected areas are typically established ...

The scientists then identified 10 hotspots of biodiversity, and found that the land with the highest biodiversity accounts for less than 3% of protected areas. 'There is an urgent need to consolidate ...

Tsawu, S. 2022. “Traditional Authorities and Post-Land Claim Co-Management of Protected Areas in South Africa: The Case of Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape ... Walker, C. 2015. “Sketch ...

South Africa already had 23 marine protected areas. It’s nearly doubled this by adding a new network of 20 under an initiative to unlock the country’s blue economy known as Operation Phakisa .