This report provides an overview of the conservation status of chondrichthyans (sharks, rays, and chimaeras) in the Arabian Seas Region (ASR) and describes the results of a regional Red List workshop held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in February 2017.
Author(s):
Jabado, Rima W.
Kyne, Peter M.
Pollom, Riley A.
Organization(s):
Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi, AE
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Shark Specialist Group
This field guide provides information on marine turtles in the Maldives. Marine turtles live permanently in a saltwater environment. Unlike tortoises, marine turtles have a streamlined shell and flippers that allow them to swim quickly, but this is not enough to survive in saltwater.
En Los guardianes del bosque amazónica se busca rescatar el aporte que las comunidades locales y los pueblos indígenas con sus saberes hacia la conservación y manejo de sus recursos naturales y a las diferentes modalidades de conservación adoptados.
To gain a better understanding of the presence and potential sources of Southern Bluefish Tuna traded and/or consumed in mainland China, desk-based research and a market survey “snapshot” were carried out.
A workshop was held in Cambridge between March 20-22, 2017, to bring together the PiN team and the Global Species Programme (GSP) and TRAFFIC to discuss the inclusion of data from PiN landscape assessments within the Species Information Services (SIS), building on discussions held over the last f
Author(s):
Darwall, W.R.T.
Davidson-Hunt, Iain J. (Iain Johnson)
Deutsch, Nathan
Hilton-Taylor, Craig
Meijer, Seline S.
Oldfield, Thomasina
Olsen, Nathalie
Smith, Kevin
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
Providing a comprehensive account of marine conservation, this book examines human use and abuse of the world's seas and oceans and their marine life, and the various approaches to management and conservation.
La investigación-acción de equidad y REDD+ realizada en Perú apuntó a responder las siguientes preguntas:1. Qué significa «equidad» y cómo se relaciona con las iniciativas de conservación y manejo sostenible de los bosques vinculadas al cambio climático, como REDD+?; 2.
This guide aims to assist companies, which are interested in transforming their operations to meet today’s widely-accepted global goals for biodiversity and sustainable development.
This report aimed at understanding resource use and dependence, perception of marine conservation policies, and adaptive capacities of communities of North Ari atoll, Maldives.
The project "Facilitating REDD+ benefit sharing in Peru" (2013-2016) aimed to implement early REDD+ actions enabled by appropriate, efficient and equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms that are sufficiently robust to be mainstreamed into long-term national and international REDD+ frameworks.
IUCN collaborates with business at the company and sector level as well as across sectors. It also works with key associations and organisations concerned with promoting good business practices.
This document presents the key results of the Our Common Dignity initiative on rights and World Heritage undertaken by the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Convention (ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN) under the coordination of ICOMOS Norway between 2011 and 2016.
Organization(s):
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
ICOMOS Norway
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), IT
Biodiversité et Grande Muraille Verte explore la dépendance de l'humanité vis-à-vis de la nature et l'importance de la biodiversité pour le bien-être et le développement durable au Sahel.
Author(s):
Davies, Jonathan
Organization(s):
IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
World Heritage sites are examples of critical natural capital that must be protected. This report highlights the increasingly important and urgent role that banks need to play in helping to safeguard natural World Heritage sites now and for future generations.
Biodiversity and the Great Green Wall explores the dependence of humanity on nature and the importance of biodiversity for wellbeing and sustainable development in the Sahel.
Author(s):
Davies, Jonathan
Organization(s):
IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
The TABE'A II report is a second more detailed analysis of the Arab region's World Heritage Programme based on the baseline established in the first report from 2011, as well as of the progress achieved since then.
This report represents the most comprehensive effort to monitor coral bleaching in the Maldives to date, using a combination of citizen science and expert scientist (governmental, academic and non-governmental) data sets.
Singapore is known to play a major role in the global trade and consumption in shark and ray parts, though a country-specific analysis has not been conducted recently.
El Proyecto "Facilitando la distribución de beneficios para REDD+" (2013-2016) buscó implementar acciones REDD+ tempranas, mediante mecanismos de distribución de beneficios eficientes y equitativos lo suficientemente robustos para ser integrados a largo plazo en los marcos de trabajo REDD+ nacion
Baseline assessment of coral reefs of North Ari is the first study to investigate spatial variation in reef condition within the context of different human pressures in one atoll in the Maldives.
Ce rapport Réflexions méditerranéennes 2016 de l’UICN présente les activités menées par le Centre de Coopération pour la Méditerranée de l’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN-Med), depuis Malaga, Espagne.
El informe Reflexiones Mediterráneas 2016 de UICN resume las principales actividades del Centro de Cooperación del Mediterráneo de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN-Med), desarrolladas desde Málaga, España.
The IUCN Mediterranean Reflections 2016 report summares the main activities undertaken by the Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN-Med), based in Malaga.
Hong Kong was once a prominent trading centre for ivory in the 1970s and 1980s, but the industry contracted considerably following the implementation of CITES trade restrictions in 1990, and waning demand from traditional overseas consumers.
This new publication is a valuable tool to help increase the capacity of policy and decision makers to develop gender-responsive climate change policies and strategies that ensure women are engaged at all levels of the decision-making process.
This paper has been prepared to inform discussions at the upcoming Livelihoods Module development workshop organised by the People in Nature (PiN) team.
Author(s):
Davidson-Hunt, Iain J. (Iain Johnson)
Deutsch, Nathan
Meijer, Seline S.
Olsen, Nathalie
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
This report presents the conservation status of the anthozoans occuring in the Mediterranean Sea, based on the assessment of 136 species using the IUCN Red List methodology.
Ce rapport sur les bonnes pratiques d’application des lois en Afrique souhaite contribuer aux efforts internationaux de lutte contre la criminalité liée aux espèces sauvages dans les aires protégées d’Afrique subsaharienne en proposant une étude systématique et fondée sur les faits des pratiques
Author(s):
D'udine, Floris A.C.
Henson, David W.
Malpas, Robert C.
Organization(s):
BMZ
Conservation Development Centre (CDC)
Frankfurt Zoological Society, DE
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
