Conservation Watch: Who pays the price for protected areas?

More than 100 rangers die every year in the conservation war

By Chris Lang 07/03/2017 09/03/2017 Editor Posts

In 2003, Sean Willmore was at an international rangers’ conference in Australia. In his presentation, Jobogo Mirindi, a ranger from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, showed a photograph of thirty-odd of his colleagues. Six rangers’ heads were circled in red. They were the only ones that had survived since…

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Conservation in the news: 27 February – 5 March 2017

By Conservation Watch 06/03/2017 06/03/2017 Editor Posts

Conservation Watch’s round-up of the week’s news on national parks, protected areas and conservation in the Global South.

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BBC banned from filming in Kaziranga and all of India’s tiger reserves for five years

By Chris Lang 03/03/2017 03/03/2017 Editor Posts

In February 2017, the BBC visited Kaziranga National Park in north east India. Justin Rowlatt, the BBC’s South Asia correspondent, reported that “Kaziranga is a triumph of wildlife conservation.”

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Conservation in the news: 20-26 February 2017

By Conservation Watch 28/02/2017 28/02/2017 Editor Posts

Conservation Watch’s round-up of the week’s news on national parks, protected areas and conservation in the Global South.

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The ivory game

By Chris Lang 22/02/2017 22/02/2017 Editor Posts

The numbers are horrific. About every 15 minutes an elephant is killed. That adds up to 150,000 elephants killed in the past five years. At this rate, the African elephant could become extinct in 15 years.

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Conservation in the news: 13-19 February 2017

By Conservation Watch 20/02/2017 20/02/2017 Editor Posts

Conservation Watch’s round-up of the week’s news on national parks, protected areas and conservation in the Global South.

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Pope meets indigenous peoples: “Confrontation and conflict can be overcome through prior and informed consent”

By Chris Lang 16/02/2017 16/02/2017 Editor Posts

Yesterday, Pope Francis met with a group of indigenous peoples. They had travelled to Rome to take part in the Third Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

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