Rangeland restoration in southern Africa faces complex challenges that require the
involvement of diverse social groups to ensure both ecological and social sustainability. This …

Highlights•Green initiatives have had negative social impacts and are contested.•The
physical and economic displacement of local people has been a major impact.•The human …

In 2010, the 192 State Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a
Strategic Plan to halt biodiversity loss and ensure the sustainable and equitable use of …

Conservation professionals need to know what has worked and what has not when
designing, implementing, evaluating and refining conservation projects. Project failure …

There have been numerous calls to ensure that protected areas are governed and managed
in an equitable manner. While there has been progress on assessing management …

Both the number and the extent of protected areas have grown considerably in recent years,
but evaluations of their effectiveness remain partial and are hard to compare across cases …

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but
unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed. At the same time, these …

The debate about the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) protected
area management categories V–VI has been ongoing since the mid-1990s. Even though …

Proclaiming a protected area (PA) is an effective strategy for establishing a perdurable
ecosystem, exerting trenchant socioeconomic impacts on local communities. Determining …

Tanzania, arguably mainland Africa's most important nation for conservation, is losing
habitat and natural resources rapidly. Moving away from a charcoal energy base and …