Coral reefs are at risk from many threats including global warming causing coral bleaching, over fishing or destructive fishing, pollution by sediments, nutrients and toxic chemicals, coral mining and shoreline development and unregulated tourism.
The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife management and conservation. Habitat "corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important element within a conservation strategy.
A Management Plan is a document which sets out the management approach and goals, together with a framework for decision making, to apply in a specific protected area over a given period of time.
Author(s):
Middleton, Julie
Thomas, Lee
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
University of Cardiff, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
These guidelines provide a logical framework for assessing species at sub-global levels; a means of sharing status information with neighbouring countries; and a suggested format for documentation and publication of listings to improve compatibility with the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe
These guidelines provide a logical framework for assessing species at sub-global levels; a means of sharing status information with neighbouring countries; and a suggested format for documentation and publication of listings to improve compatibility with the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe
These guidelines provide a logical framework for assessing species at sub-global levels; a means of sharing status information with neighbouring countries; and a suggested format for documentation and publication of listings to improve compatibility with the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe
This publication aims to contribute to planning and management approaches that minimize land degradation and desertification in arid and semi-arid zones as a result of extractive industries operations.
Author(s):
Gratzfeld, Joachim
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
The Ecosystem Approach, defined as a strategy for the management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way, was adopted at the Second Conference of the Parties of the CBD as the primary framework for action under the Convention.
Author(s):
Smith, R. D. (Richard D.)
Maltby, Edward
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
IUCN, Ecosystem Management Programme
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
UNESCO
WWF International
Royal Holloway Institute for Environmental Research
This book begins with an example of a field education centre, explains the purpose of evaluation, and outlines the thirteen steps behind the evaluation process. It also looks at the broader principle of how evaluation can be introduced as a regular activity in an organisation.
Author(s):
Aert, Lisette van
Kaskens, Anneke
Meijberg, Wiem
Stokking, Karel
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
Spain, Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Medi Ambient
As part of the preparations for the Vth World Parks Congress, a high-level team was assembled by IUCN to consider the long-term future of protected areas.
This primer was developed to increase the knowledge about biodiversity prospecting and its implications and was conceptualised after repeated requests from groups working in southern Africa on these difficult issues.
Author(s):
Laird, Sarah A.
Wynberg, Rachel
Organization(s):
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
IUCN South Africa
United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
The 2003 version of the CITES Checklist not only provides an alphabetical list of the fauna and flora included in Appendices I, II and III of CITES as adopted by the Conference of the Parties, but includes as well a CD-ROM containing the Annotated Appendices which have an index to family names an
Organization(s):
UNEP-WCMC
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Secretariat
European Union, Commission
United Kingdom, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Wetlands in Africa are increasingly being recognised as ecosystems of extreme importance to man and biodiversity. However, the management of these wetlands has been impacted by alien invasive species that specialize on aquatic (and semi-aquatic) systems.
Author(s):
Howard, Geoffrey W.
Matindi, Susan
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Eastern Africa
IUCN, Eastern Africa Programme
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
By far the largest habitat for life on earth and the cradle of new species, habitats and undiscovered ecosystems, our oceans are being intensively exploited and heavily degraded.
An environmental flow is the water regime provided within a river, wetland or coastal zone to maintain ecosystems and their benefits where there are competing water uses and where flows are regulated.
Energy has recently emerged at the forefront of sustainable development. The United Nations Development Programmes World Energy Assessment (2000) linked energy and most of the ills of modern society in both developed and developing countries.
El libro bilingüe es una recopilación de frases que dieron la vuelta al mundo a propósito de la realización de la Cumbre de Johannesburgo, 2002; antes, durante y después de esta reunión global.
Colombias policy on its indigenous people includes recognizing their rights relating to political and administrative autonomy, land tenure, education and health.
