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23 August 2013

Thailand observes its first World Ranger Day; Register now for the Asia Parks Congress; Read an interview with Bob Peart; Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada; Call for biodiversity conservation projects in the Indo-Burma Hotspot; Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas and climate change; Third International Marine Protected Areas Congress, 21-25 October 2013, Marseille, France
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15 August 2013

Iraq's first national park announced; IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 website goes live; IUCN celebrates World Ranger Day, as Prince William salutes park rangers’ “brave and tireless work”; The Serengeti of the East - East Daurian Steppe, Mongolia; New private protected area study underway; Europarc Conference 2013, 9-13 October, Debrecen, Hungary; Protected Areas as a Legitimate Land Use; Logo Competition
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26 July 2013   BIOPAMA special edition

Efforts to establish World’s largest marine protected area in Antarctica postponed … again; About BIOPAMA; BIOPAMA looks ahead to the forthcoming IUCN World Parks Congress 2014; Capacity development in West and Central Africa through training in protected areas management; Lesotho and South Africa’s Transboundary World Heritage wonder: Maloti-Drakensberg Park; Key initiatives build bridges for protected areas management in the Caribbean; African Forestry and Wildlife Committee, 30 Sept - 4 Oct, 2013
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12 July 2013   World Heritage special edition

222 natural World Heritage Sites to protect; IUCN experts at the UNESCO World Heritage Committee; Five Natural Wonders Declared World Heritage; Tim Badman - IUCN World Heritage Programme Director; Terrestrial biodiversity and the World Heritage List - in English and French; WILD10, Salamanca, Spain 4-10 October; Getting involved in the State of World Heritage
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17 June 2013

Decision time for World Heritage; European Protected Area Capacity Development and the 6th IUCN World Parks Congress; Maja Vasilijevic; Madagascar's Marine Jewel - the Barren Isles Archipelago; IUCN World Heritage Evaluations 2013; The Second Protected Areas National Congress of Ecuador; Key steps to guide decisions in BIOPAMA Eastern and Southern African Region
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31 May 2013

From risk to opportunity: reducing the risk of disasters the natural way; IUCN’s WPC team is on board; Alistair Morrison – Director-General, Department of Conservation, New Zealand; Reserva Natural de las Aves El Paujil - an Avian paradise; Climate in the Parks: Innovative climate change education in parks; Register now for a course on Planning & Managing Tourism in Protected Areas; New JRC Project Leader for BIOPAMA
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18 April 2013

Why you should come to Cambodia this June; New terrestrial gaps study to be unveiled; The World Heritage Convention: back on the right track?; Dialogue between the mining sector and World Heritage sites in Africa; A training bridge between nature and culture; New guidance is available on the World Heritage criterion; Do you hold first-hand knowledge on natural and mixed World Heritage Sites?
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22 March 2013

 PARKS paper reveals progress on management effectivenss targets; Sydney is ideal to host the IUCN World Parks Congress; Sukianto Lusli, Augus Budi Utomo and Yusup Cahyadin; Pinnacles National Park USA; Sacred Species and Sites : Advances in biocultural conservation ;Nick Cox, BIOPAMA Project Manager; Official website for IMPAC
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8 March 2013

First Asia Parks Congress strives for protected area connections, the World Parks Congress needs your input, Dr Namkhai Bandi,Vashlovani Protected Areas: Cradle of the Caucasus, Ecological Restoration for protected areas - in English and in French, A BIOPAMA champion in the Pacific, IMPAC3 - Call for Papers
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22 February 2013

Support capacity development in Eastern and Southern Africa say WCPA Regional Vice Chair, Moses Mapesa WPC Logo approved Peter Cochrane Elk Island National Park, Canada Parks, Peace and Biodiversity publication BIOPAMA bolsters progress on capacity development for protected areas in the Pacific and West Africa Sustainable Ocean Summit Balkan Green Belt Capacity Building Workshop
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8 February 2013

New Ramsar Wetlands in Brazil, WPC Leaders wanted, Manuai Matawai, Hustai NP Mongolia,Protected Areas Governance and Management E-book newsletter,BIOPAMA The Caribbean Regional Workshop – from planning to action,CITES,IUCN experts deliberate defining degraded lands
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25 January 2013

Leaders wanted for IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, Julia Miranda Londoño, Arnavon Islands,MPA Guidelines,BIOPAMA 2nd Year,Asia Parks Congress, MEDPan
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11 January 2013

IUCN World Parks Congress build up underway, Graeme Kelleher OceanElder, Sydney Harbour National Park, PAs in Europe, What’s new and who is who in BIOPAMA?, Mountains under watch
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14 December 2012

Australia creates world largest network of marine reserves; Francesco Framarin, 41 years for the bearded vulture; Iguaçu NP Brazil; Parks 18.2; ESARO workshop; IPBES; WDPA workshops
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30 November 2012,

IUCN supports Cook Islands to create the world’s largest marine park,Bob Debus - The Australia National Wildlife Corridors Plan, Butrinti National Park, Albania World Heritage Site,Protected area literature database,18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC,Christine Mentzel ESARO focal point for BIOPAMA
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16 November 2012, 

PAs in many WCC resolutions: Julia Marton-Lefèvre - Speech on PAs; Pukaskwa NP, Canada; Initiating effective transboundary conservation;WILD 10 Call for abstracts; Béatrice Chataigner, PACO focal point for BIOPAMA
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2 November 2012
Decision at CBD COP 11 cites major role for IUCN GPAP and WCPA in moving protected areas agenda forward,  Oscar Loayza: Receiving the Kenton Miller award brings complete happiness, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Conserving Dryland Biodiversity, World Ranger Congress,
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19 October 2012
Protected Areas presented as Natural Solutions at CBD COP 11, Protected Areas lose a champion: Rob Milne, Western Ghats, India, Protected Planet Report, Europarc Conference 2012, BIOPAMA : Sara Whitmee
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5 October 2012
First woman to receive the Young Conservationist Award : Elisangela Sales Dos Santos, Changing the way we look at protected areas - Ernesto Enkerkin Hoeflich, Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, Canada, PARKS: The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation, Protected Areas Day at COP-11, BIOPAMA moved forward at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
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