This list contains 19236 entry(ies).
Author(s):
- Gullström, Martin
- Dahl, Martin
- Lindén, Olof
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
The cultural and spiritual significance of nature has been defined as the spiritual, cultural, inspirational, aesthetic, historic and social meanings, values, feelings, ideas and associations that natural features and nature in general have for past, present and future generations of people – bot
Author(s):
- Verschuuren, Bas
- Mallarach, Josep-Maria
- Bernbaum, Edwin
- Spoon, Jeremy
- Brown, Steve
- Borde, Radhika
- Brown, Jessica
- Calamia, Mark
- Mitchell, Nora
- Infield, Mark
- Lee, Emma
- Groves, Craig
Organization(s):
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas Specialist Group
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- IUCN, Global Protected Areas Programme
After the 30-year long civil war was over, the Government of Sri Lanka commenced an accelerated programme to develop the Northern Province. If not carefully planned, such a programme will result in the loss of biodiversity and the consequent loss of services that ecosystems provide humans.
Author(s):
- Weerakoon, Devaka
- Goonatilake, S. de A.
- Wijewickrama,Tharanga
- Rajasuriya, Arjan
- Perera, Naalin
- Kumara, T. P.
- De Silva, Gyan
- Miththapala, Sriyanie
- Mallawatantri, Ananda
The Mediterranean Red List assessment is a review of the regional conservation status of approximately 6,000 species (amphibians, mammals, reptiles, birds, fishes, butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, corals and plants) according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.
Author(s):
- Numa, Catherine
- Tonelli, Mattia
- Lobo, Jorge M.
- Verdú, José R.
- Lumaret, Jean-Pierre
- Sánchez-Piñero, Francisco
- Ruiz, José L.
- Dellacasa, Marco
- Ziani, Stefano
- Arriaga, Alfonsina
- Cabrero, Francisco
- Labidi, Imen
- Barrios, Violeta
- Şenyüz, Yakup
- Anlaş, Sinan
Organization(s):
- IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
A successful process to advance forest landscape restoration (FLR) needs to motivate, enable and resource its implementation. This brief offers a preliminary exploratory analysis of some of the range of policies that respond to each of these three requirements.
Author(s):
- Slobodian, Lydia
- Vidal, Adriana
- Saint-Laurent, Carole
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
The first part of this document offers guidance to assess the development of new or existing inter-institutional coordination mechanisms (ICMs) for forest landscape restoration (FLR).
Author(s):
- Vidal, Adriana
- Imbach, Alejandro
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
This document explores the gender dimensions of cultural practices in the Dehesa region of Spain. Specifically, the report examines the roles, responsibilities, constraints, and opportunities for women pastoralists and women involved in the wool industry.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Global Programme on Governance and Rights (GPGR)
This report explores the status of six crops in Lebanon’s Shouf Biosphere Reserve and further provides opportunities and recommendations to grow the value chains of these crops.
Author(s):
- Sleem, Khaled
- Redwan, Zaher
- Bou Assi, Marwa
Organization(s):
- IUCN Global Programme on Governance and Rights (GPGR)
This document highlights the commercial prospects of several food products in the Greek island of Lemnos. The document further highlights challenges and opportunities related to the market for these products. The executive summary is in English, while the longer document is in Greek.
Author(s):
- Kotoulas, Alexis
- Tsimberis, Dimitris
Organization(s):
- IUCN Global Programme on Governance and Rights (GPGR)
This report explores the role of gender in the division of labour and cultural practices in Lebanon’s Shouf region.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Global Programme on Governance and Rights (GPGR)
This document provides a review of existing literature around women’s roles in local economies, cultural preservation and environmental conservation in the Mediterranean Basin.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Global Programme on Governance and Rights (GPGR)
This book provides a thorough, up-to-date examination of conservation biology and the many supporting disciplines that comprise conservation science.
Author(s):
- van Dyke, Fred
- Lamb, Rachel L.
This book tells the story of one of Australia’s natural wonders, Kosciuszko National Park.
Author(s):
- Slattery, Deirdre
- Worboys, Graeme L.
Ecosystems are critically important components of Earth’s biological diversity and as the natural capital that sustains human life and well-being.
Author(s):
- Keith, David A.
- Ferrer-Paris, Jose R.
- Nicholson, Emily
- Kingsford, Richard
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- IUCN Global Ecosystem Management Programme
REDD+ refers to the implementation of activities under the UNFCCC in developing tropical countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and to promote the sustainable management of forests and the enhancement and conservation of forest carbon stocks.
Author(s):
- Balderas Torres, Arturo
- Skutsch, Margaret
- de los Ríos Ibarra, Emilio
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
- Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), MX
In recent decades, partnerships and cooperative initiatives of State and non-State actors have been increasingly called upon by the United Nations to contribute transformative solutions to the challenges of sustainable development.
Author(s):
- Curet, Florence
- Puydarrieux, Philippe
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Economic Knowledge Unit
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3 builds on three cycles of Conservation Outlook Assessments undertaken since 2014. It presents the main results for 2020, but also some longer-term trends based on a comparison of three data sets now available.
Author(s):
- Osipova, Elena
- Emslie-Smith, Matthew
- Osti, Matea
- Murai, Mizuki
- Åberg, Ulrika
- Shadie, Peter
Organization(s):
- IUCN, World Heritage Programme
The state of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa is the first report that brings together information on protected and conserved areas for the whole Eastern and Southern Africa region.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
These Guidelines are intended to help improve the conservation and management of geoheritage and geodiversity in protected and conserved areas and recognition of the interrelationships and interactions with biological features and processes.
Author(s):
- Crofts, Roger
- Gordon, J. E. (John E.)
- Brilha, José
- Gray, Murray
- Gunn, John
- Larwood, Jonathan
- Santucci, Vincent L.
- Tormey, Daniel
- Worboys, Graeme L.
- Groves, Craig
Organization(s):
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Geoheritage Specialist Group
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- IUCN, Global Protected Areas Programme
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity. The purpose of the Guidelines for using A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas is to ensure that KBA identification is based on consistent, scienti
Organization(s):
- IUCN, KBA Standards and Appeals Committee
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Small-scale fisheries provide food security, livelihoods and income to millions of people but their management still presents a challenge to managers and other stakeholders due to problems in gathering suitable information and its incorporation in fisheries policy.
Author(s):
- Cowie, Winston
- Al Dhaheri, Shaikha
- Al Hashmi, Ahmed
- Solis-Rivera, Vivienne
- Baigun, Claudio
- Chang, Kevin
- Cooney, Rosie
- Kamaka‘ala, Shaelene
- Lindeman, Ken
- Louwa, Christiana
- Roe, Dilys
- Walker-Painemilla, Kristen
- Al Baharna, Reem
- Al Ameri, Mohsin
- Al Hameli, Shamsa
- Al Jaberi, Kholood
- Alzahlawi, Nessrine
- Binkulaib, Rajeyah
- Al Kharusi, Yassir
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Species Survival Commission (SSC), Sustainable Use and Livelihood Specialist Group (SULi)
- Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi, AE
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
Investing in nature and nature-based solutions is an important pathway to address the current ecological crisis.
Author(s):
- Wheeler, M.
- Grossinger, R.
- Ndayishimiye, E.
- Spotswood, E.
- Galt, R.
- Carbone, Giulia
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
Author(s):
- Boucher, Julien
- Billard, Guillaume
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
This is the first national Red List assessment of the 85 mammalian species, reported from Jordan. The aim was to assess the national conservation status of the terrestrial mammals in Jordan.
Author(s):
- Eid, Ehab
- Abu Baker, Mohammad
- Amr, Zuhair
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA)
China’s Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), was declared likely to be extinct in 2006, due to threats in the wild such as habitat loss, entanglement in fishing gear and ship strikes, which were not effectively dealt with using the management tools available prior to that time.
Author(s):
- Taylor, Barbara L.
- Abel, G.
- Miller, P.
- Gomez, F.
- Fersen, L. von
- DeMaster, D.
- Reeves, Randall R.
- Rojas-Bracho, L.
- Wang, D.
- Hao, Y.
- Cipriano, F.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Cetacean Specialist Group
China’s Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), was declared likely to be extinct in 2006, due to threats in the wild such as habitat loss, entanglement in fishing gear and ship strikes, which were not effectively dealt with using the management tools available prior to that time.
Author(s):
- Taylor, Barbara L.
- Abel, G.
- Miller, P.
- Gomez, F.
- Fersen, L. von
- DeMaster, D.
- Reeves, Randall R.
- Rojas-Bracho, L.
- Wang, D.
- Hao, Y.
- Cipriano, F.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Cetacean Specialist Group
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECARO)
A unified classification of alien taxa based on the magnitude of their environmental impacts has been developed in response to these issues.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Invasive Species Specialist Group
The bestselling textbook for undergraduate ecology courses, Ecology is an easy-to-read and well-organized text for instructors and students to explore the basics of the field.
Author(s):
- Bowman, William D.
- Hacker, Sally D.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Oceania Regional Office (ORO)
Recent major international reports have highlighted the alarming impact of food production systems on climate change, land and biodiversity.
Author(s):
- Larbodière, Ludovic,
- Davies, Jonathan
- Schmidt, Ruth
- Magero, Chris
- Vidal, Alain
- Arroyo Schnell, A.
- Bucher, Peter
- Maginnis, Stewart
- Cox, Neil
- Hasinger, Olivier
- Abhilash, P.C.
- Conner, Nicholas
- Westerberg, Vanja
- Costa, Luis
Organization(s):
- IUCN Global Ecosystem Management Programme
This report intends to identify the opportunities and barriers of introducing and scaling up of FLR into selected pilot landscapes of Ethiopia: the districts (or woredas used as a synonym throughout this document) of Sodo and Meket, located in SNNP and Amhara regions respectively.
Author(s):
- Zeleke, Alemayehu
- Vidal, Adriana
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
This book looks at the current state of the world’s forests and progress towards more sustainable forest conservation globally.
Building a razor-sharp critique of current conservation proposals and their contradictions, Büscher and Fletcher argue that the Anthropocene challenge demands something bigger, better and bolder. Something truly revolutionary. They propose convivial conservation as the way forward.
Author(s):
- Büscher, Bram
- Fletcher, Robert
The Protected Areas Benefits Assessment Tool+ (PA-BAT+) aims to collate and assess information about the overall benefits from conservation and protection in protected areas. It can also be used in other area-based conservation sites.
Author(s):
- Ivanić, Kasandra-Zorica
- Stolton, Sue
- Figueroa Arango, Carolina
- Dudley, Nigel
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Protected Areas Programme
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
This guidance is co-developed by UNEP, IUCN, and the Life Cycle Initiative.
This Guidance for using the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions accompanies the Global Standard to provide the scientific basis and guidance for users.
The IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions lists the Criteria and Indicators, as adopted by the 98th Meeting of the IUCN Council in 2020.
Engaging with business is vital for moving towards a more sustainable future. This paper examines nine different business and biodiversity platforms from across the IUCN network.
Author(s):
- Marre, Hélène
- Moey, Ann
- McCormick, Nadine
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
Increased risk of climate change makes the communities in the Rio Doce more vulnerable to events, such as flooding, landslides and coastal erosion, indicating the need for policies and investments to build institutional and societal resilience for climate change adaptation, particularly in regar
Author(s):
- May, Peter
- Alonso, Luiza
- Barbosa, Francisco
- Brito, Maria Cecília
- Laureano, Fernando
- Maroun, Christianne
- Sánchez, Luis Enrique
- Kakabadse, Yolanda
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
Connectivity conservation is essential for managing healthy ecosystems, conserving biodiversity and adapting to climate change across all biomes and spatial scales.
Author(s):
- Hilty, Jodi
- Worboys, Graeme L.
- Keeley, Annika
- Woodley, Stephen
- Lausche, Barbara J.
- Locke, Harvey
- Carr, Mark
- Pulsford, Ian
- Pittock, Jamie
- White, J. Wilson
- Theobald, David M.
- Levine, Jessica
- Reuling, Melly
- Watson, James E.M.
- Ament, Rob
- Groves, Craig
- Tabor, Gary M.
The high amount of land used for cultivation and livestock farming has dramatically shaped landscapes in Europe and throughout the rest of the world. Agriculture is a fundamental human activity that intrinsically depends on nature and at the same time poses a threat to it.
Author(s):
- Oberč, B.P.
- Arroyo Schnell, A.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, European Regional Office
In 2016, IUCN uplisted the western chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes verus, from “Endangered” to “Critically Endangered”, reflecting the subspecies’ increasingly dire conservation status.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
The Endangered Roatán spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura oedirhina) is found only on the islands of Roatán, Barbareta, and some surrounding cays.
Author(s):
- Pasachnik, Stesha A.
- Goode, Ashley B.C.
- Grant, Tandora
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Iguana Specialist Group
This report aims to provide an overview of the current status of protected area finance in the Southern and Eastern African region, covering 24 countries, to understand the extent of the challenge.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
Author(s):
- Lyons, Timothy
- Máiz-Tomé, Laura
- Tognelli, Marcelo F.
- Daniels, Adam
- Meredith, Clayton
- Bullock, Robert
- Harrison, I. J.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Global Species Programme, Freshwater Biodiversity Unit
- IUCN Global Species Programme
- ABQ BioPark, US
Organization(s):
- IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
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