Conservation International (CI) has been protecting nature for the benefit of all for over 30 years. Through science, policy, and partnerships, CI is helping build a healthier, more prosperous and more productive planet. POSITION SUMMARY National parks and other protected areas are the foundation of global efforts to conserve biological diversity. Although conservation policy and practice assume that protected areas are permanent fixtures on the landscape, legal changes that temper, shrink, and eliminate protected areas (known as protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) is widespread.  To advance scientific understanding and inform conservation decision-making, CI has been identifying and documenting PADDD events and causes; analyzing temporal and spatial pa