30×30 – protecting 30% of the earth’s surface by 2030 – threatens the biggest land grab the world has ever seen – in the name of conservation.
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‘Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures’ (OECMs): an acceptable face of protected areas that can save biodiversity?
By Simon Counsell Summary So-called ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ (OECMs) are included in the proposed global target to increase protected areas to thirty per cent of the planet by 2030 (‘30×30’). They can notionally involve designations such as indigenous territories and community conserved lands in order to overcome the well-documented human rights problems caused…
Will global spatial planning save the world’s biodiversity? (No, it won’t.) For those engaged in developing the new Global Biodiversity Framework: four lessons from the past, and a warning for the future
Will global spatial planning save the world’s biodiversity? Simon Counsell takes a look at some of the lessons from the past where spatial planning led to disastrous outcomes for biodiversity.
TRIDOM – one of the largest trans-boundary wildlife areas in Africa faces critical new threats. Far from protesting, conservationists are looking to cash-in on the destruction
TRIDOM faces major threats from mining and hydropower. WWF hopes to cash in by getting the mining companies to fund conservation.
Massive tree planting schemes are not the answer to the biodiversity and climate crises
Massive tree planting schemes are proposed as a solution to both the biodiversity and climate crises. They will solve neither.