5 Takeaways From Huge Once-a-Decade Gathering on World's Protected Areas

SYDNEY—Must conservation and economic development always be locked in combat, with no hope for one unless the other is suffering? At the World Parks Congress, a once-a-decade global forum on protected areas that drew more than 6,000 delegates from 170 countries to Australia this week, influential voices argued again and again that the typically opposing forces must be linked in tandem.