Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement as a threat to iconic protected areas Article impact statement: Legal changes affect even iconic protected areas. Sustaining conservation progress requires research, policies, and human-capacity investments.

Heading home from #ICCB2019 or looking for a good #sciencefriday read? Check out this new #openaccess paper in ⁦@ConBiology⁩ on legal threats to iconic protected areas. #PADDD

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After discussing how to conserve nature all week at #ICCB2019 it is great to be out appreciating it.

.@ICCB2019? Join @takiwamura, @SiyuQ, & @Mike_Mascia for insights from land systems science. July 24. 4:00 pm. Hall 3, level 3. See you there! #ICCB2019

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Here is some background material to my talk in the session at 10 today on Generating, accessing and using evidence in conservation. #ICCB2019
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Sad to miss #ICCB2019 , but thanks to folks there for doing a great job live-tweeting!

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Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) events are processes that change the legal status of national parks and other protected areas in both terrestrial and marine environments.[1][2] "Downgrading" is "a decrease in legal restrictions on the number, magnitude, or extent of human activities within a protected area (i.e., legal authorization for increased human use)."[1] "Downsizing" refers to a "decrease in size of a protected area as a result of excision of land or sea area through a legal boundary change."[1] "Degazettement" is defined as a loss of legal protection for an entire national park or other protected area.[1] Collectively, PADDD represents legal processes that temper regulations, shrink boundaries, or eliminate legal protections originally associated with establishment of a protected area.

Interested in learning more about protected area downgrading, downsizing, & degazettement? Check out the Wikipedia page here:#PADDD #conservation #biodiversity #ICCB2019

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Let’s try heading this off at the pass this time: I am sadly unable to attend #ICCB2019 ... which means that if you email me in a week and say it was nice to meet me at #ICCB2019 , I’ll have a pretty good idea that something is off with your request for my help.

Have fun at #ICCB2019 @ICCB2019 , friends! I’m afraid I can’t make this one, but a #ProTip for those of you who haven’t been to Malaysia before: if you eat food, you should eat the food there, it tastes very good.

Wow, that Malaysia promo video for #ICCB2019 appears to have been produced by Michael Bay, with soundtrack by Enya.

#ICCB2019 will be July 21st through July 25th, 2019 in... Kuala Lumpur