{"id":6243,"date":"2019-10-30T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"protected-status-not-enough-to-guard-threatened-nature-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/30\/protected-status-not-enough-to-guard-threatened-nature-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Protected Status Not Enough To Guard Threatened Nature Reserves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Rosa Furneaux<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expanding\nthe planet&#8217;s protected natural areas to safeguard vanishing forests and other\necosystems, and the species they protect, is unlikely to be effective on its\nown as human encroachment into reserves grows, scientists warned Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/research\/news\/extent-of-human-encroachment-into-worlds-protected-areas-revealed\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>study\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>by Cambridge University researchers, which looked at thousands of conservation areas in more than 150 countries, found that, on average, the protected designation is not reducing human encroachment in vulnerable areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both\nchronic underfunding of efforts to protect the land, and a lack of engagement\nwith local communities that live there are hurting conservation efforts, they\nfound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating\nprotected areas is &#8220;a type of intervention that we know can work, we know\nis absolutely essential for conserving biodiversity, at a time in this world&#8217;s\nhistory where it has never been under higher pressure\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191029162018-ddsq8\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rosa Furneaux Expanding the planet&#8217;s protected natural areas to safeguard vanishing forests and other ecosystems, and the species they protect, is unlikely to be effective on its own as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}