This is Part 2 of a four-part series on Indigenous land rights in Ecuador. Read Part 1 and Part 3. Part 4 will be published ...

Ecuador’s parliament has passed a law allowing private companies to help manage protected areas, prompting backlash from ...

Protected areas are crucial for wildlife conservation, but many are under unprecedented pressure associated with exponential ...

Technically Portugal's tallest mountain, the decision to protect Gorringe will take the nation's total protected territorial ...

Nature isn't confined to officially protected areas. A lot can be done to conserve biodiversity in other places too. The ...

In response to rising human-elephant conflicts, Bangladesh is planning to declare the elephant habitats in its northeastern parts a protected area for the species. The country is one of the few ...

French Polynesia has announced the creation of the world’s largest marine protected area. Speaking on the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference in France, French Polynesian President ...

Bangladesh is planning to declare a major elephant habitat in its northeast, which has recently seen a rise in human-elephant conflicts, a protected area. Bangladesh is one of the few countries ...

French Polynesia announced the creation of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area (MPA), at the U.N. Ocean Conference in France on Monday. The MPA will cover the entirety of the country's ...

The Trump administration is putting an end to Haiti’s temporary protected status designation, dealing yet another devastating blow to roughly a half-million Haitian nationals, some of whom have ...

It includes 11 protected areas that contain some of the most pristine natural sites remaining in the Congo Basin, including Ntokou Pikounda. People are at the forefront of WWF’s area-based ...

Peru just created a new 700,000-acre conservation area to protect the Amazon rainforest and support Indigenous communities.