Is the world moving backwards on protected areas?

Mongabay: Protected areas are undoubtedly the world's most important conservation success story, and recent research shows that protected areas are effective-housing more biodiversity and greater abundances of species inside rather than out. But, despite this, progress on protected areas is stalling and in some cases even falling behind. According to a sobering new paper today in Nature, only 20-50 percent of the world's land and marine protected areas are meeting their goals, while the rest are hampered by......

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