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The Bonn Challenge Barometer of Progress – a protocol that will monitor commitments made to the global restoration goal – was announced by IUCN at the World Conservation Congress in Hawai’i. 

A mission report making a set of 10 recommendations for action to secure the long-term protection of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh has just been published. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) carried out a field mission to the site in March 2016, jointly with UNESCO’s…

We have lost one of the great architects of protected areas world-wide. After a short illness, Larry Hamilton died on 6 October near his home in Vermont. His beloved wife, Linda, was with him. By Adrian Phillips.* 

Leaders from international organisations, business and civil society have rallied around a new effort to safeguard the global commons on which all life depends.

Efforts to adopt effective marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, a global commons containing the world’s most pristine marine ecosystems, are being thwarted by political infighting and fishing interests.