The material within these proceedings represents a summary for 2009–2016 on the state of knowledge and conservation concerns for polar bears throughout their range.
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Polar Bear Specialist Group
In 2013, the IUCN Niger Delta Panel published the report Sustainable remediation and rehabilitation of biodiversity and habitats of oil spill sites in the Niger Delta.
These Guidelines on business and KBAs have been developed by the KBA Partners to support businesses in managing risk to biodiversity. They will be of use to business and certification scheme operators, financial institutions, civil society organisations, and public authorities.
The primary objective of this assessment is to determine the value for money (VfM) of IUCN's contribution to Guatemala’s forest landscape restoration (FLR) policy formulation processes during the period 2012-2016.
The Lake Victoria Basin is internationally recognised for its high freshwater species diversity and endemism, which are of critical importance to local livelihoods and national economies within the basin.
Organization(s):
IUCN Global Species Programme
IUCN, Species Programme, Freshwater Biodiversity Unit
The Building River Dialogue and Governance Programme (BRIDGE, currently in phase 3) set out to do something quite new: to facilitate the development of international networks of Champions of water governance in its target basins.
La gazelle de Cuvier (Gazella cuvieri) est une espèce endémique de l’Afrique du Nord, dont l’aire de répartition couvre le Maroc, l’Algérie et la Tunisie.
Alors que les aires protégées couvrent désormais 20 % des terres de notre planète et 10 % de ses eaux territoriales, de plus en plus d’agences et de communautés sont responsables de la conservation de l’héritage naturel de notre planète, et ainsi de l’héritage culturel qui en découle. La gestion
Author(s):
Appleton, Michael R.
Organization(s):
IUCN, Global Protected Areas Programme
IUCN Programme for African Protected Areas & Conservation (PAPACO)
Les sites naturels du patrimoine mondial sont internationalement reconnus comme étant en tête des priorités pour la préservation de la planète et incluent des lieux emblématiques tels que le Serengeti, la Grande Barrière et les îles Galápagos.
Saproxylic beetles are insects that depend on dead and decaying wood for at least part of their lifecycle, and play important ecological roles in European habitats. The current IUCN European Red List provides an assessment for 693 species of saproxylic beetles.
The objectives of this manual are: to help the managers and management authorities of cultural and natural World Heritage properties to reduce the risks to these properties from natural and humanmade disasters; to illustrate the main principles of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) for heritage and a
Organization(s):
IUCN
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), IT
The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria were developed for classifying species at high risk of global extinction, i.e. for assessment at the global level.
The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction.
These guidelines are designed to be applicable to the full spectrum of conservation translocations. They are based on principle rather than example and are designed to provide guidance on the justification, design and implementation of any conservation translocation.
Organization(s):
Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi, AE
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Reintroduction Specialist Group
Only one of the nine African savanna hornbill species, the Southern Ground-Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri: hereafter SGH) is listed as being of conservation concern.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)
Pangolins are currently the most heavily trafficked wild mammals in the world. In this report, the illegal pangolin trade from 2010–2015 was investigated, focusing on the global trade routes used to traffic pangolins and their derivatives.
Ce rapport synthétise les résultats de ces quatre années de recherche et dresse, entre trois sites (barrages et périmètres rizicoles) -- Sélingué au Mali, Bagré au Burkina Faso et Anambé au Sénégal -- des parallèles porteurs d’enseignements pour la région ouest africaine.
Author(s):
Bazin, Frédéric
Hathie, Ibrahima
Skinner, Jamie
Koundouno, Jérôme
Organization(s):
Global Water Initiative (GWI)
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
In recent years, the governments of the Sahel have committed to combat poverty and food insecurity through a significant increase in the development of irrigable areas. From 2013 onwards, GWI has carried out retrospective studies on three existing dam and rice field sites: Sélingué in Mali, Bagré
Author(s):
Bazin, Frédéric
Hathie, Ibrahima
Skinner, Jamie
Koundouno, Jérôme
Organization(s):
Global Water Initiative (GWI)
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
Entre los años 2004 a 2007, la UICN desarrolló el proyecto “Manejo Integrado de las Cuencas Asociadas al Volcán Tacaná”, período en el que el paso del huracán Stan dejó consecuencias devastadoras.
Конвенция об охране всемирного культурного и природного наследия, принятая ЮНЕСКО в 1972 г., объединяет страны в их общем стремлении защитить объекты культурного и природного наследия, имеющие выдающееся значение для блага настоящих и будущих поколений.
The Bellinger River Snapping Turtle (BRST) (Myuchelys georgesi) is a freshwater turtle endemic to a 60 km stretch of the Bellinger River, and possibly a portion of the nearby Kalang River in coastal north eastern New South Wales (NSW). In mid-February, 2015 a significant mortality event was obser
Author(s):
Jakob-Hoff, Richard M.
Lees, C.M.
McGilvray, G.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)
Vultures are a characteristic, distinctive and spectacular component of the biodiversity of the environments they inhabit. They also provide critically important ecosystem services by cleaning up carcasses and other organic waste in the environment.
Organization(s):
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), Secretariat
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Vulture Specialist Group
The Adriatic Marbled Bush-Cricket, Zeuneriana marmorata, is a rare bush-cricket species, which is found in a few wetlands in north-eastern Italy (Friuli Venezia Giulia) and Slovenia. For several decades, Z.
Author(s):
Hochkirch, Axel
Gomboc, Stanislav
Veenvliet, Paul
Lipovšek, Gregor
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Grasshopper Specialist Group
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Invertebrates Conservation Sub-Committee
L'Associazione Studi Ornitologici e Ricerche Ecologiche del Friuli Venezia Giulia
