PARKS 31.2 (November 2025)

Parks Journal 31.2

November 2025| Downloads – publication

Edited by Margaret F. Kinnaird, IUCN WCPA

PARKS 31.2 issue download

https://DOI.org/10.2305/GYXI3871

 


GUEST EDITORIAL

Recognizing the Benefits of Protected and Conserved Areas (PCAs) for Nature and People

John G. Robinson

https://DOI.org/10.2305/VDXJ1450


ARTICLES

Wildlife’s Contributions to People: considerations for protected and conserved area managers and systems managers

Hannah Timmins, Sue Stolten and Nigel Dudley

https://DOI.org/10.2305/JBOF9964


Advancing a New Framework for Planning and Implementing Ecological Corridors

Aaron T Laur, Annika T.H. Keeley, Fernanda Z. Teixeira, Jamie Faselt, Gabriel Oppler and Gary Tabor

Supplementary Online Material: Country-level efforts towards connectivity conservation

https://DOI.org/10.2305/AHPB8940


Recent changes affecting area-based conservation as a tool for climate adaptation and mitigation

Nigel Dudley, Julia Gorricho, Linda Krueger, Nik Lopoukhine, Midori Paxton, Trevor Sandwith, Sue Stolton, Hannah Timmins, Liza Zogib and James Watson

https://DOI.org/10.2305/PORL8349


The central importance of water in setting a transactional global conservation agenda

Andy Dobson

https://DOI.org/10.2305/MBMM3372


Designing Protected and Conserved Areas to Support Free-flowing Rivers: Environmental Flows, Connectivity and Communities

Tara Moberg, Natalie Shahbol, James Fitzsimons, Jamie Woods, Fernando Trujillo, Sergio Salinas,César Freddy Suárez, Pía Weber, Gabriela Celi Checa and Robin Abell

httsp://DOI.org/10.2305/VIGB3354


Ecocide and National Parks

Rosie Rallings and Tim Caro

Supplementary Online Material: Historical overview of the origin of the term ecocide

https://DOI.org/10.2305/NIEK5582


Assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation: Overview and guidance on three complementary approaches

Mark Andrachuk, Nathan Bennett, Kira Sullivan-Wiley, Georgina Gurney, Stacy Jupiter, Gerald Singh, Neil Dawson, Mia Strand, David Gill, Jacqueline Lau, Katina Roumbedakis, Ella-Kari Muhl, Priscila F. M. Lopes, Elena Finkbeiner, Sebastian Villasante, Joachim Claudet, Jessica Blythe, Juno Fitzpatrick, Josheena Naggea, Shauna Mahajan, Samiya Selim, Timur Jack-Kadioglu and Phil Franks

Supplementary Online Material: Rapid equity assessment, Stakeholders and rightsholder equity assessment and Co-produced and customised equity assessment

https://DOI.org/10.2305/RCBS3096


Rethinking urban conservation: considering a new Urban Protected Area category or other formal international recognition

Carolina Figueroa-Arango, Hoda Gray, Amie Kusch and Sebastian Oyola

https://DOI.org/10.2305/YLIY9883


Motivations and challenges of Malaysia’s Green List Experience

Julia Su-Chen Ng, Hao-Jin Tan, Abidin Siti Zuraidah & Bee-Hong Yeo

Supplementary Online Material: Research questionnaire and objectives

https://DOI.org/10.2305/CTMQ1842


Managing small grassland reserves: bird response to regenerative grazing in a private reserve in Argentina

Stella B. Román, Sofía Martin Sirito , Tomás O’Connor, Juan Alberti, Augusto Cardoni, Esteban González Zugasti and Juan P. Isacch

Supplementary Online Material: Results tables and model assumptions

https://DOI.org/10.2305/TRTY4762


SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Reflections from interdisciplinary research on the social challenges of implementing 30×30: Five ways forward

Javier Fajardo, Dan Brockington, James Fitzsimons, Rose Pritchard, Priya Shyamsundar & Chris Sandbrook

Supplementary Online Material: End-of-project questionnaire

https://DOI.org/10.2305/NFZN8173


Protected and conserved areas in a changing world: key themes for a global response

Madhu Rao, James Fitzsimons, Brent Mitchell, Kent Redford, Trevor Sandwith, Thierry Lefebvre, Mohamed Bakarr, Cyrille Barnerias, Roxana Bucioaca, Martin Callow, Mariano Castro Jiménez, Avecita Chicchón, Tom Evans, Lisa Farroway, Camila Germana, Thomas Göttert, Mohamed Harun, Paul Hotham, Símon Crisóstomo Loncopán, Kelly Malsch, Cláudio C. Maretti, Michel Masozera, Midori Paxton, Andrew Rhodes, Charlotte Karibuhoye Said, Rohit Singh, Kristen Walker Painemilla, Helen Tugendhat and Heidi Weiskel

https://DOI.org/10.2305/MXTQ4400


 

 

 

 

PARKS 31.1 (May 2025)

Parks Journal 31.1

May 2025| Downloads – publication

Edited by Margaret Kinnaird, IUCN WCPA

PARKS 31.1 issue download

https://doi.org/10.2305/ZBDC1879

 


Measuring divergence: the concordance factor for World Heritage Committee decisions

Marc Patry and Jiayao Jiang

https://doi.org/10.2305/MGRP5198


Assessing land-use governance systems as potential OECMs in Iceland

Jon Geir Petursson, Helga Hvanndal Bjornsdottir and Jukka Siltanen

Supplementary Online Material

Supplementary Online Material 1. Icelandic Protected Area context

Supplementary Online Material 2. Key Informant Interviews

http://doi.org/10.2305/CQVA3413


Detecting illegal campfires by drone-mounted thermal sensors in protected tropical rainforests

Paulina Rodriguez, Carolina Pinto, Eleanor Flatt, Johan Ortiz, Marco Hidalgo, Christopher Beirne, Yvonne J. M. Kemp and Andrew Whitworth

http://doi.org10.2305/EOHA2567


Assessing recreational use value in British Columbia’s largest urban Park

Arwinddeep Kaur, Meng Sun and Panagiotis Tsigaris

Supplementary Online Material

Supplementary Online Material 1. Data availability statement.

http://doi.org/10.2305/IAKQ4577


Decade-long monitoring in Lomako-Yokokala Faunal Reserve, DRC: Impacts of ranger patrols on mammal population status

Tetsuya Sakamaki, Yafete Mtowasekye, Lomanga Lompwanga Frederick and Jef Dupain

Supplementary Online Material

Supplementary Online Material 1. Study area figure.

Supplementary Online Material 2. Tables 1-4.

http://doi.org/10.2305/PRPN8075


The protected area system of Ethiopia: Development, present state and perspectives towards the ’30×30 target’

Paul Scholte, Simeneh Admasu, Lakew Berhanu, Mellese Damtie, Gebremeskel Gizaw, Sven Oehm and Kumara Wakjira

Supplementary Online Material

Supplementary Online Material 1. History of delegated management in Ethiopia (2004-2024).

Supplementary Online Material 2. Figure S1.

Supplementary Online Material 3. Figure S2.

http://doi.org/10.2305/SRUC8758


In the line of floods: rangers as first responders to an extreme weather event in Pakistan

Hamera Aisha, Rohit Singh, Hafsa Aeman, Anser Mahmood Chatta, Javed Ahmed Mahar, Masood Arshad, Abdul Qadir, Muhammad Imran Malik and Muhammad Munawar Iqbal

http://doi.org/10.2305/YZHM4452


Towards responsible waste management in protected areas: An evaluation of South African national parks management plans

Claudine Roos, Reece Alberts, Francois Retief, Dirk Cilliers, Jurie Moolman and Alan Bond

https://doi.org/10.2305/KQNT7049


Community-led marine OECMs: Assessing enabling regulatory frameworks and potential cases in Indonesia

Rayhan Dudayev, Beby Pane, Thomas Gammage, Georgina G. Gurney and Dedi Supriadi Adhuri

Supplementary Online Material

Supplementary Online Material 1. Analysis of the Regulations.

https://doi.org/10.2305/JHOJ4854