By Marina Martinez Protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves and Indigenous lands are the foundation of biodiversity conservation. However, climate change is threatening their ...

These communities are typically within a 60-mile radius of the parks. All told, roughly $26.4 billion was generated by national park guests in 2023. Here’s where they spent the most: It pays to ...

a retired cartographer with the UN National Parks, for the task. Together with software engineer Bojan Savric, the team in 2018 created an equal area map they called the “Equal Earth” projection. That ...

In total, the administration is proposing to eliminate funding for over 350 national parks and related sites across the country, according to the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA).

From Jan. 1 to March 31, 103 rhinos were killed in South Africa, and 65 of those were poached in the country's national parks Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Poachers in South Africa killed more than 100 rhinos in the first three months of this year, most of them inside national parks — highlighting an ongoing battle to protect one of the best-known ...

FILE - A rhino, front, recovers from a tranquilizer, after a hole was drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in the country's northern province of Limpopo ...

Covering an area of over 100 000km² — roughly seven times larger than Serengeti National Park — these maps reveal the ... in June last year by African Parks and South Sudan’s ministry ...

South African National Parks has blocked a bid by a company controlled by billionaire Patrice Motsepe to tap South Africa’s second-biggest phosphate deposit in one of the nation’s most ...

maps that can be used offline, and curated tips for the most enjoyable experience. Since the COVID-19 prompted many people to turn to national parks for the fresh air and exercise they craved ...

Peak season in many US national parks has begun. Families heading outdoors ... the NPS App to easily access park information and maps while in the park, and checking park websites in advance ...