Protected areas benefits assessment tool

The IUCN Green List Standard aims to encourage, achieve, and promote effective, equitable and successful protected areas in partner countries and jurisdictions worldwide. It provides suitable measures for strengthening conservation outcomes and improving equitable and effective management of protected and conserved areas. By committing to meet this standard, site managers seek to demonstrate and maintain performance and deliver real nature conservation results.

Governance of protected areas is a powerful concept, clearly distinguished from management. Management usually concerns what activities are being carried out in a given situation or area, while governance concerns who decides what those activities are, how that is decided and how those decisions are implemented.

Viewing protected areas through a governance lens opens up key information about not only power, authority and responsibility but also history, culture, traditions, people and political context. The Gateway is for the conservation practitioner, scientist and decision-maker. Here we share the best and most up-to-date information we use to inform our work at The Nature Conservancy.

This document is a tool to assess overall benefits provided by protected areas PAs. The Competence Register was prepared and tested with protected area professionals across the world and with the support of:.

In Burmese: A global register of competences for protected area practitioners Burmese. This report aims to raise awareness about this type of protected area and provide a framework to show how privately protected areas can and should be reported nationally and internationally. The report is based on an extensive literature review, discussions with privately protected areas specialists, an expert workshop and 17 commissioned country reviews.

Privately protected areas deserve far greater recognition and support than is the case at the moment. To date, the large majority of protected areas have been created on state-owned lands and waters. Whilst such initiatives are invaluable, and unprecedented in their scale and in the commitment shown by governments, they will not be enough to achieve the CBD targets on their own.

Learn more. Protected Areas.