Improving protected area networks
WWF's vision
A global network of ecologically representative, effectively managed, and sustainably financed protected areas that:
• sustain biodiversity and natural resources across entire ecosystems
• help to reduce poverty
• provide environmental services and resilience to long-term change
• protect threatened human cultures and communities
• give space for both wildlife and people.
With our partners, WWF is at the forefront of all aspects of protected area work - from planning, establishing, and managing to securing sustainable financing, influencing policy, and ensuring that such areas bring benefits to people.
Our work combines:
- Large-scale conservation strategies to safeguard the world's most important terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions
- Targeted conservation goals to address key global challenges
- Field projects in more than 100 countries to establish, restore, and effectively manage protected area networks, protect them from long-term global threats such as climate change, and ensure they bring benefits to people
- Advocacy and policy work
- Partners, including indigenous people, local communities, park managers, local and international NGOs, land owners, governments, universities and research institutes, international organizations, development agencies, business groups, and industry.
With a vast range of projects and partners around the globe, our protected areas work is delivering powerful conservation results for people and nature. Follow the links to the right to find out more...
