⌛ Please take just 10 minutes to fill out our APAP Impact survey: www.surveymonkey.com/survey-taken...

Are you familiar with APAP’s work? Did you attend the Asia Parks Congress (APC2) in Malaysia? Have you attended an APAP workshop, training, webinar, study tour? Do you use the APAP website or any of their guidance materials and resources?

🫵 Then we want to hear from you!

🌏🎂 The Asia Protected Areas Partnership (IUCN's APAP) recently celebrated its 10th birthday! This is an opportune time for IUCN to carry out an assessment of APAP's activities and achievements over the last decade to help enhance APAP activities in the future 📈

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🌏 Call out for Asian PA organisations
🪲 How wildlife are providing ecosystem services
💧 Designing and managing PAs and systems for inland waters
🌾 Grasslands, rangelands and combatting desertification

And much, much more!

🇧🇿 How governance of PAs works at a national level
🇪🇺 Management effectiveness across a contient
🤝 Building better relationships between rangers and communities
👥 The difference between rightsholders and stakeholders

🗞️ Equilibrium Research Spring 2025 Newsletter

Get your round up of the conservation conversations and thinking over the last 6 months:

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📰 See article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

These actions are a selection from our editorial in Oryx Journal: Conservation in Troubled Times ( 🔗 below).

With Nigel Dudley, @brentamitchell.bsky.social ‬, Kent Redford, Sue Stolton, Hannah Timmins and James Watson

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✊ But we must not lose hope or focus 🌏

📽️ In this video we share 4 actions that we can all take to rebuild support for conservation and challenge post-truth politics.

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Disinformation; politicians shredding environmental and climate agreements; environmental issues pushed to the bottom of the agenda; rejection of evidence-based science; downgrading, downsizing and degazettment of protected areas - are all making our lives and work more difficult.

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🧑‍🚒 The next decade is going to be difficult for nature conservation, possibly very difficult.

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Times are getting harder, but there is still everything to play for in conservation. Our new editorial in Oryx journal suggests some responses to right-wing populism, funding cuts and anti-environmental backlash... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Please let us know what you think!

If you are a ranger, work with rangers, attended the World Ranger Congress in Hyères, and have thoughts on what actions need to be taken to deliver on the Hyères Declaration (🔗 below), we want to hear from you!

Reach out in the comments below 🙌 and turn that volume up on the video 🔊

Calling all rangers, ranger managers, experts and advocacy groups!

We are thrilled to announce that we are supporting @International Ranger Federation on the development of the World Ranger Action Plan 2025-2030!!