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Este constituye el primer libro rojo para un grupo de vertebrados del Ecuador y utiliza de manera comprensiva los nuevos criterios desarrollados por la UICN para categorizar especies amenazadas de extinción, inclusive con las últimas modificaciones aprobadas para esta novedosa metodología por par

The threatened species categories used in Red Data Books and Red Lists have been in place for almost 30 years.

For many years, concerns have been expressed about environmental issues in the Arctic.

This publication contains four papers on different legal issues of interest to developing countries.

The East Asia Action Plan (IUCN, 1996) recommended exchange programmes as a means of improving protected area management capacity in the East Asia region. The experience of exchange programmmes from around the world shows that they can bring great benefits when executed and managed effectively.

El Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB) representa un hito histórico. Es el primer acuerdo global que aborda integralmente los aspectos biológicos, económicos, sociales y culturales de la biodiversidad.

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.

Protected areas are vital for life on earth. They safeguard biological and cultural diversity, help to improve the livelihoods of local communities, provide the homelands for many indigenous peoples and bring countless benefits to society at large.

A companion document to the Strategic Approach document, this guide reviews the lessons learned from the various agency initiatives to integrate biodiversity issues into development cooperation programmes.

This publication provides a collection of material useful to planners and managers of parks and protected areas in East Asia.

The CITES handbook has been compiled to provide for the Parties to CITES and others who are interested the most essential texts fo the implementation of the Convention in one single reference book.

Alien invasive species are considered by the Species Survival Commission to be the second largest threat to indigenous species, following habitat destruction.