Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area wins a 2026 continental award for conservation excellence, sustainable tourism and cultural heritage.

Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area wins a 2026 continental award for conservation excellence, sustainable tourism and cultural heritage.

City land‑use counsel told commissioners the proposed conservation development agreement would enable site‑specific standards the municipal code cannot impose, but emphasized the commission’s authority is limited to land‑use matters; she said health, fire and water protections remain under other agencies' purview.

The Alachua County Commission voted unanimously April 28 to transmit a proposed comprehensive‑plan amendment to reclassify 580 acres from rural agricultural to a new 'UF Golf Institutional' land‑use and to adopt implementing policies (including conservation management areas, irrigation limits and nutrient‑management requirements) for state coordinated review.

Council decides on managing 10 rockfish species for conservation in Pacific waters.

Ireland must now devise a plan to control the growing numbers

"… most people believe that trees die when they are felled, and woods disappear because they are cut down. The reality is more complex…” - Oliver Rackham,

The rack approved a pilot conservation‑lease rule to pay landowners for habitat/management that benefits deer and turkey; the division said federal funding sources may be used, but rack members asked for clearer selection criteria, transparency and exit provisions; vote passed 4–3.

Updated MOU enhances public access and transparency for hunting permits on Antelope Island.