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 ...

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 ...

Protected areas have mixed success in conserving wildlife, according to the largest study on the effects of reserves. A team led by researchers from the U.K. examined waterbird data from 1,506 ...

Climate change is making Canada’s seasons more erratic, its weather more extreme and its ecosystems less predictable—and UBC Okanagan scientists have now produced the first national map of exactly ...