Asia Protected Areas Partnership

2025

This report tells the story of 10 years of the Asia Protected Areas Partnership (APAP) and the impact it has had. Understanding the impact of a wide-ranging partnership is never easy; outputs such as the 2nd Asia Parks Congress (APC2) reported here were only possible thanks to the efforts of a multitude of individuals and organisations. This report thus considers impacts based on APAP’s overarching objectives.

2025 Smith, Risa B. | Kinahan, Anouska | Morelli, Toni Lyn | Samson, Clarissa | Orchard, S. | Crtichley, Megan | Lucas, Ben | Zhu, Zhilang | Pastick, Neal | Rahman, Aminur | Kupika, Olga Laiza | Day, Jon | Healy, Tim | Weiskopf, Sara | Arce-Plata, Maria Isabel | Burbano-Girón, Jaime | Devarajan, Kadambari | Dickey, Shannon | Fulton, Elizabeth A. | Gholizadeh, Hamed | Oke, Tobi A. | Pecl, Gretta | Ranco, Darren J. | Keely, Annika | Ankenman, Madeleine | Mommsen, Thomas P. |

This report covers both terrestrial and marine protected and conserved areas (PCAs). The audience is practitioners and policymakers who seek background information on the role of PCAs in climate change mitigation to:
- develop policies that enhance biodiversity and climate change simultaneously;
- quantify the importance of PCAs as a mechanism to reduce GHG emissions in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to the Paris Agreement;