The definition of protected areas as legal entities is not defined at the legislative level, which significantly reduces range tools for protecting corresponding territories from abuses and loopholes in current legislation regarding scope methods utilizing their natural potential. study focuses on an analysis concept “legal personality” Ukraine, considering requirements to address restoration p...

Among the greatest challenges facing the conservation of plants and animal species in protected areas are threats from a rapidly changing climate. An altered climate creates both challenges and opportunities for improving the management of protected areas in networks. Increasingly, quantitative tools like species distribution modeling are used to assess the performance of protected areas and pr...

Protected areas are effective at stopping biodiversity loss, but their placement is constrained by the needs of people. Consequently protected areas are often biased toward areas that are unattractive for other human uses. Current reporting metrics that emphasise the total area protected do not account for this bias. To address this problem we propose that the distribution of protected areas be...