This handbook was written for staff working in protected areas around the world (including parks, wilderness areas, resarch areas, and other types of protected landscapes) who encounter conflicts of all kinds.
This work forms part of a preparatory phase leading to a handbook providing guidelines for the sustainable utlization and integrated management of tropical peatlands.
Based on information derived from literature, statistics, interviews and a field survey in Bolivia, this report explores the value of non-timber forest products not only in economic terms but also as an important element in the lives of people who live in or near the forest.
Author(s):
Broekhoven, Guido
Organization(s):
IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
University of Utrecht, Department of Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, NL
Prince Bernhard Centre for International Nature Conservation
Presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the 36 wild cats of the world. It includes the first published collection of detailed range maps and some of the first photographs of rare species in the wild.
Author(s):
Jackson, Peter
Nowell, Kristin
Organization(s):
Chicago Zoological Society, US
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Cat Specialist Group
Examines the educational and training needs arising from relevant legal instruments; covers education and training currently undertaken by national programmes; and, by considering the range of tools available, identifies initiatives for improving the environmental education of scientists, support
This structured list of "keywords" has been compiled to aid indexing of conservation and biological diversity information. Terms were selected from lists already in use within IUCN and from such internationally accepted sources as the OECD Macro-thesaurus.
At the meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organization held in Bali in 1990, ITTO adopted the target of ensuring that all tropical timber marketed internationally should, by the year 2000, come from forests that are managed sustainably.
At the meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organization held in Bali in 1990, ITTO adopted the target of ensuring that all tropical timber marketed internationally should, by the year 2000, come from forests that are managed sustainably.
Explores various approaches including those which are forest-related such as community forestry and joint forest management as well as those concerned with protected areas. Covers key issues of theory and implementation and methodolgies for implementation
This report analyses the factors which motivate land use by rural populations and provides a context for any policy or strategy which addresses natural resource conservation in the Sahel.
The rationale for this three-volume work covering nearly 250 major sites for conservation of plant diversity worldwide is concern about rapid global loss and degradation of natural ecosystems.
Organization(s):
IUCN
European Communities, Commission
Smithsonian Institution, US
United Kingdom, Overseas Development Administration
In the mid-1980s, the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, in consultation with leading experts from around the world, began to respond to a need later identified by Agenda 21 : the preparation of an integrated framework for international environmental law.
Booklet in a series intended to give the general reader facts and information about fur-bearing mammals from a more conservation-oriented perspective than information generally available from other sources.
Booklet of a series intended to give the general reader facts and information about fur-bearing mammals from a more conservation-oriented perspective than information generally available from other sources.
One of a series of six booklets intended to give the general reader facts and information about fur-bearing mammals from a more conservation-oriented perspective than information generally available from other sources.
This Action Plan highlights the biological importance of these species, reviews current knowledge, and identifies those at risk and the causes, critical areas for conservation, and specific conservation projects.
Author(s):
Stone, David
Organization(s):
Chicago Zoological Society, US
English Nature, UK
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Insectivore, Tree-Shrew and Elephant-Shrew Specialist Group
As excellent examples of oceanic island ecosystems, many unmodified by human influences, these islands are of great conservation significance but adequate protection varies.
Part of a series of regional reviews of multi-sectoral strategies for sustainability at the national, provincial and local levels, complementing the volume on Strategies for National Sustainable Development; each volume summarizes the status of strategies in the region, reviews and analyses case
Synthesis of the various components of international law that have an impact on forests and provides a policy framework for conservation and sustainable use, against which any future global forest regime shoud be measured.
Explores various approaches including those which are forest-related such as community forestry and joint forest management as well as those concerned with protected areas. Covers key issues of theory and implementation and methodologies for implementation.
Produced by an IUCN team working with the PNG Department of Environment and Conservation, this report underlines the urgent need to initiate appropriate strategic planning for regional development well before the cessation of current mining activities in the Fly River catchment area.
Organization(s):
IUCN, Environmental Assessment Service
Papua New Guinea, Department of Environment and Conservation
This report draws on lessons learned from observations made at seven case study sites, all of which permit economic activities, especially recreation, that are not harmful to the biological values and natural functions of the area.
Case studies and contributions from around the world, most of which were presented at the 1994 IUCN General Assembly. Part 1: covers some research and theoretical bases for planning communications and education programmes.
Author(s):
Palmer, Joy
Goldstein, Wendy
Curnow, Anthony
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
Forest management in Ghana is in a transition period. This report looks at the historical background and forest condition today, summarises a recent botanical survey, and offers recommendations for a new management regime given the seriously threatened state of many forest reserves.
Published by IUCN in collaboration with UNEP INFOTERRA, the Sourcebook seeks to foster communication with IUCN, UNEP and WWF offices and related sources of information. Includes bibliographies of "best" books, periodicals, videos and some electronic resources.
Organization(s):
France, Ministère de l'Environnement
Netherlands, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries
This very first directory of wetlands of one of the most arid zones on earth is intended to increase awareness among decision makers and planners of the consequences of wetland loss and degradation.
Author(s):
Scott, Derek A.
Organization(s):
IUCN
WWF International
International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau (IWRB)
BirdLife International
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
The result of the work of the Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation programme, this report provides a summary of the existing information about Kenya's indigenous forests.
Organization(s):
IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
United Kingdom, Overseas Development Administration
Limits to expansion of protected area systems underline the importance of seeking new ways to conserve biodiversity. There are many examples where traditional rural communities have shown their capacity to maintain high biological and cultural diversity.
Author(s):
Halladay, Patricia
Gilmour, D. A. (Donald Allan)
Organization(s):
IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
Spain, Agencia de Medio Ambiente Junta de Andalucia
Centro de Investigación de Espacios Naturales Protegidos "Fernando González Bernáldez"
