Protected Areas - Protected Areas: What's New

Protect Nature!

With your help, we can strengthen protected areas and conserve our planet’s lands and waters.

The Nature Conservancy is working to strengthen conservation through protected areas in more than thirty countries around the world. Learn more about our recent successes, new developments and the latest news on protected areas.

The Conservancy helps to broker the largest
debt-for-nature swap in history in Costa Rica. The deal will secure the long-term, science-based conservation for Costa Rica’s tropical forests.
China Establishes its First National Park in Yunnan Province. Pudacuo National Park will also serve as a model for a new Chinese national park system.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Deng Jia (Laojun Mountain in China); Photo Jeffrey Brown(Man on Costa Rican Coastline).