Creating global protected areas ‘insufficient’ to prevent species decline, UN report warns | Climate News

Hitting the global target for protected land is “insufficient” to prevent biodiversity loss, the UN has warned, as species continue to decline.

Although the world has made vast strides in designating protected land and marine areas, it has fallen short on its management of these zones, according to a new UN Environment Programme report.

It reveals that the world has hit a 2010 target to protect 17% of land and inland waters, with 16.64% now known to fall within a conservation area, and much more thought to exist but not yet be reported.