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UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre's (UNEP-WCMC) list of Protected Area Management Effectiveness Assessment is now available. Click on the link below to access the list

Who would ever want to hand their beloved island and planet to their kids in a worse condition than what they inherited. We are merely custodians and guardians and need to think more in these ways, think more as a conservationist. It only takes a little common sense.

The collapse of turtle populations on a global scale has greatly diminished their ecological roles. Click on the link below to access the full paper

The Palaszczuk Government is further increasing the amount of protected areas in Queensland, with another 34,000 hectares added as part of a nature refuge near Rungulla National Park.Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus will explore seamounts in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument from Sept. 15 through Oct. 1, 2018. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Our rapidly warming climate is threatening coral reefs as thermal anomalies trigger mass coral bleaching events. Click on the link below to access the full paper.

New research finds that the mass bleaching event that led to the death of 30 percent of shallow-water corals on the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 also had a substantial impact on deep reefs. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Turtles are among the most threatened of the major groups of vertebrates in the world, a new review paper says, perhaps even more so than birds, mammals, fish or amphibians. Click on the link below to read the full article. 

A group of 17 philanthropic foundations has committed nearly half a billion dollars in support of land-based solutions to climate change and the recognition of indigenous peoples’ and traditional communities’ collective land rights and resource management.Click on the link below to read the full