I New conservation geographies amid globalization: introduction The worldwide expansion of conservation management areas is often showcased as a major success of modern global environmentalism. Protected-area coverage in particular has undergone extensive enlargements that are being coordinated, financed, implemented and monitored through global organizations (Brechin et at, 2003;Zimmerer et at, 2004).The global institutions supporting protectedarea conservation include the UN (especially UNESCO and the UNDER, the United Nations Development and Environment Program); the World Bank and regional development banks (eg, the IDB, Inter-American Development Bank); and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The latter range from European-based NGOs that coordinate and promote protected-area conservation, such as the IUCN (the World Conservation Union), the WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre) and the WCPA (World Commission on Protected Areas), to influential Washington-based counterparts, including Conservation International,