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Rangers and Target 3 with Rohit Singh

Rohit Singh is Director of Protected and Conserved Area Management and Governance for WWF and Vice President of the International Ranger Federation. We talk: professionalising the ranger workforce through competencies, conditions, and accountability; the need for adequate numbers of an inclusive ranger workforce; the tools, ranger associations and other bodies that exist and to engage these; and the future: what we can expect from the ranger world going forwards.

Privately Protected Areas with Miquel Rafa

How privately protected areas (PPAs) can help get us to 30% of the planet protected by 2030.
Ensuring PPAs are durable and effective; their role in connectivity; better identification and counting of PPA towards area-based conservation goals; what governments can do to develop, expand and improve PPA networks; and the reasons why people protect private lands: passion for conservation and nature!

OECMs with Dr Stephen Woodley

In this short episode of PSTP, Dr Stephen Woodley answers your questions on Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures. We discuss their differences from protected areas, untangling overlaps, the difference between OECMs and governance categories, OECM criteria, recognising potential restoration OECMs, the role of OECMs in bending the curve for biodiversity and the practicalities of managing and expanding OECMs.

Biodiversity rights with Nigel Dudley

Does nature need rights? For our inaugural podcast, we present Nigel Dudley on his latest book Why Biodiversity Matters where Nigel argues that we could and indeed should be using rights as a tool to protect biodiversity amidst the sixth mass extinction.