Editorial: Wildlife crime poses unique challenges to protected areas
Nigel Dudley, Sue Stolton and Wendy Elliott

Progress towards the CBD protected area management effectiveness targets
Lauren Coad, Fiona Leverington, Neil D. Burgess, Ivon C. Cuadros, Jonas Geldmann, Toby R. Marthews, Jessie Mee, Christoph Nolte, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann, Nanna Vansteelant, Camilo Zamora, Mark Zimsky and Marc Hockings

Are governance and management effective within protected areas of the Kanchenjunga landscape (Bhutan, India and Nepal)?
Krishna Prasad Oli, Sunita Chaudhary and Uday Raj Sharma

Protected area management and livelihood conflicts in Ghana: a case study of Digya National Park
Jesse S. Ayivor, Chris Gordon and Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu

Tigers in the Transboundary Manas Conservation Complex: Conservation implications across borders
Jimmy Borah, Dorji Wangchuk, Anindya Swargowari, Tenzing Wangchuk, Tridip Sharma, Dhritiman Das, Nilmani Rabha, Ajit Basumatari, Niraj Kakati, M. Firoz Ahmed, Amit Sharma, Anupam Sarmah, Deba Kumar Dutta, Bibhuti Lahkar, Tshering Dorji, Probhod Kumar Brahma, Labanya Ramchiary, Tshering Tempa, Yeshey Wangdi, Tshering Nedup, Tandin Wangdi, Lhendup Tharchen, Pema Dhendup, Chitaranjan Bhobora, Bivash Pandav and Joseph Vattakaven

Placemaking and transnationalism: recent migrants and a national park in Sydney, Australia
Denis Byrne and Heather Goodall

Can the IUCN 2008 Protected Areas Management Categories support Pacific island approaches to conservation?
Hugh Govan and Stacy Jupiter

Putting Nature on the Map: Applying the IUCN Protected Areas Management Categories in the UK
Roger Crofts and Adrian Phillips

An Elephant Corridor in a fragmented conservation landscape: Preventing the isolation of Mount Kenya National Park and National Reserve
Maurice O. Nyaligu and Susie Weeks

Collaborative governance and benefit sharing in Liuwa Plain National Park, western Zambia
Vincent R. Nyirenda and Bimo A. Nkhata

Lessons from large-scale conservation networks in Australia
James Fitzsimons, Ian Pulsford and Geoff Wescott