Opinion

‘Protected’ seagrass meadows aren’t necessarily healthy – because pollution doesn’t stop at the shoreline

Marine protected areas can’t stop pollution flowing in from the land and Northern Ireland’s seagrass meadows are paying the price.
The Conversation

World’s protected natural areas too small and isolated to benefit wildlife – new study

These “protected areas” can range from enormous, strictly-protected areas like US national parks, through the heavily-used landscapes of UK national parks, to tiny urban nature reserves. Protected ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Protected status not enough to guard threatened nature reserves, scientists find

To more effectively guard forests and stem climate change, "simply designating a place as protected can't be the beginning and the end of a conservation effort" LONDON, Oct 29 (Thomson Reuters ...
Mongabay

Protected areas benefit nature & people, study says — with caveats

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new paper in the journal Current Biology that attempts to track how protected areas (PAs) fare on biodiversity protection and economic growth ...
TreeHugger

10 Countries and Territories With the Most Protected Land

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...