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This report comprises a worldwide review of 38 ecological network initiatives that are currently being developed or implemented.

World events, political upheavals, technological developments, and scientific breakthroughs are moving at a breathtaking pace, providing significant challenges to the conservation movement.

World events, political upheavals, technological developments, and scientific breakthroughs are moving at a breathtaking pace, providing significant challenges to the conservation movement.

This publication deals in two distinct parts with the status of our natural resources on the high-seas (approximately 50 per cent of the Earth's surface) which contain open-access common resources.

Visitors to parks and protected areas impact at many levels: political, economic, social and ecological. To ensure effective park management for increasing visitor numbers, good quality global data on visitor use is necessary.

The business plan provides the basis for operationalising the IUCN Quadrennial Programme 2001-2004.

The IUCN system for classifying protected areas distinguishes six management categories (I-VI).

The IUCN system for classifying protected areas distinguishes six management categories (I-VI).

This report was written to provide an overview, without the use of scientific jargon, of the status of coral reefs and causes of reef decline, with recommendations for action by national authorities.

Coral reef management has focused traditionally on the biophysical aspects of coral reefs, but today reefs are coming under increasing pressures from human activities. Understanding the socioeconomic context of reef stakeholders is essential for assessing, predicting and managing reef use.

The IUCN system for classifying protected areas distinguishes six management categories (I-VI).