In the United Kingdom, some species of bees, ladybugs and spider populations are declining at faster rates in protected natural areas. That’s according to a new study that shows protected areas ...

Natural protected areas get 8 billion visits per year. That’s higher than world’s population. February 24, 2015 More than 10 years ago. Summary.

World's protected natural areas receive eight billion visits a year. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 28, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 02 / 150224142933.htm. University of Cambridge.

New research based on recordings from 492 protected natural areas reveals that they're awash in noise pollution. Researchers from Colorado State University spent years making the recordings by ...

Expanding the planet's protected natural areas to safeguard vanishing forests and other ecosystems, and the species they protect, is unlikely to be effective on its own as human encroachment into ...

The United States has a history of preserving natural areas—and then paring back those protections. Within two years of Yosemite’s establishment in 1890, Congress authorized wagon road and ...

Ongoing land clearing for agriculture, mining and urbanisation is isolating and disconnecting Earth's protected natural areas from each other, a new study shows. Lead author Michelle Ward, from ...

Protected natural areas of the UK are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the past 30 years, according to a new study. Skip to main content.

There are thousands of parks, refuges and wilderness areas in the U.S. that are kept in something close to their natural state. But one form of pollution isn't respecting those boundaries: man ...

The report comes amid a global push to protect 30 percent of the planet’s land and water by 2030, known as the 30×30 plan.Data on the U.K.’s protected areas suggest that as the country works ...