News

...around the world, ecosystems and wildlife face growing threats from human activities, habitat loss and climate change. If one species dies off, its predators don't have as much to eat — and the cycle repeats.

Two sites in Western Australia amassing to an area larger than Tasmania have been placed in the care of traditional owners. The land totalling seven million hectares has been declared Indigenous Protected Areas and dedicated to the National Reserve System.

Returning specific ecosystems that have been replaced by farming to their natural state in all continents worldwide would rescue the majority of land-based species of mammals, amphibians and birds under threat of extinction.

University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands globally.

UC Santa Barbara forest ecologist Anna Trugman—along with her colleagues at the University of Utah, Stanford University and the U.S. Forest Service—investigated the effects of repeated, extreme droughts on various types of forests across the globe.

The Forestry Corporation of New South Wales could face more than $1m in fines for the alleged illegal logging of trees in protected areas, including koala habitat, in the state’s north.

A new book, Poisoning the Pacific, to be released Monday, chronicles the US military’s decades-long contamination of indigenous lands across the Pacific as well as the ocean itself, endangering lives and ecosystems across the vast Pacific Ocean.

Hawaii’s iconic iiwi, a honeycreeper bird known for its bright-red plumage, could go extinct in the coming decades without a designated, critical habitat for its numbers to recover. On Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity filed its intent to sue the U.S.

We are now taking applications for our next scholarship cohort. You can find the list of eligible courses on our Current Courses page.

SESSION 3A "Protected Area Rangers on the Front Lines of COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges" invites you to learn from the experiences of park rangers on the front lines as they face opportunities and challenges due to the current pandemic.