This documentary demonstrates that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, to restore ecosystem functions in areas where they have been lost, to fundamentally improve the lives of people who have been trapped in poverty for generations and to sequester carbon naturally.
The booklet provides a range of case studies and other materials to make the forest sector more biodiversity-friendly, and socially beneficial. It addresses the linkages between forestry, biodiversity, and development/poverty reduction.
Organization(s):
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
IUCN
France, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes
Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades del sector de infraestructura.
Author(s):
Peña, Efraín
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades agrícolas.
Author(s):
Hidalgo Dittel, Nancy
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades porcícolas.
Author(s):
Hidalgo Dittel, Nancy
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para el sector agroindustrial (empacadoras de frutas y hortalizas).
Author(s):
Quijano Poumián, Martín
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades avícolas.
Author(s):
Hidalgo Dittel, Nancy
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades turísticas.
Author(s):
Bien, Amos Roger
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
Como respuesta a la falta de información sobre el tema es que nace la iniciativa de elaborar por medio de un proceso participativo, un documento que de forma ilustrativa y sencilla explique las acciones que se deben tomar en caso de detectar daños ambientales en las comunidades, principalmente lo
Conservation for a New Era outlines the critical issues facing us in the 21st century, developed from the results of the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona in October 2008.
Au Burkina Faso, le bois-énergie est encore la principale source énergétique des ménages et avec laccroissement de la démographie et donc de la demande dénergie dans les vingt prochaines années, la question de la gestion rationnelle des ressources forestières se pose donc.
This publication sets out the specific actions that policymakers, forest managers and other stakeholders should take to improve biodiversity conservation in tropical production forests.
The main objective of this work is to provide an introduction and sense of direction into the complicated world of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). It by no means intends to serve as a comprehensive overview of this vast field.
The objectives of the first edition of the Pangani situation analysis included identifying the resources that occupy the Pangani River Basin (PRB) and the processes and events that affect them, and identifying a series of broad action areas wherein interventions may feasibly be delivered.
Organization(s):
IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
The Tanguar Haor, in northeastern Bangladesh, is part of a wetland/floodplain complex. During the monsoon season it is entirely under water. In the dry season waters recede into the rivers and cover about 2530% of the area.
Létude porte sur lanalyse des différents sites, les problèmes rencontrés sur chaque site en passant en revue tous les aspects de leur gestion, lintérêt du statut actuel (ou prévu) en fonction des objectifs de conservation assignés à ces aires protégées, lanalyse de ladéquation de la législat
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Regional Protected Areas Programme, Western Africa
Analysis and engagement with partners working on ecosystem services transactions, policies and laws over the past 10 years have demonstrated a clear need to better understand the legal and institutional frameworks that have the potential to promote or hinder the development of payments for ecosys
This report, compiled by 85 experts from across the world, reveals that nearly half of all primate species are now in danger of becoming extinct from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bushmeat hunting.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Conservation International
International Primatological Society
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
Increasing incidence and intensity of natural disasters and climate change are having over-arching impacts on the environment. Sustainable development is being undermined. Ecological services and their indirect economic values are frequently omitted from assessments.
Over the past decade, there has been growing concern among international stakeholders, particularly in Mediterranean countries, about aquaculture product quality, knowledge management, interaction with the environment, technology and systems, fish health and welfare, management of biological life
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Federation of European Aquaculture Producers
Spain, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino
All people, regardless of where they live, depend upon the existence of healthy marine ecosystems. While the role that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can play in promoting the health of the oceans and seas has been widely acknowledged, progress on building a network of MPAs has been slow to date.
A survey of tourists and tour operators in the Egyptian Red Sea region shows that the industry often misperceives its clients environmental sensitivity, putting its own business at risk.
The IUCN initiative Strengthening Voices for Better Choices (SVBC) is piloting improved forest governance arrangements, among others in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The rapid development of biofuels to support greenhouse gas reductions, agricultural development and energy security has often occurred without adequate consideration of the threat of biological invasions.
Out of all the biological carbon (or green carbon) captured in the world, over half is captured by marine living organisms --- hence it is called "blue carbon".
Author(s):
Nellemann, C. (Christian)
Corcoran, Emily
Duarte, Carlos M.
Valdes, Luis
DeYoung, Cassandra
Fonseca, Luciano
Grimsditch, Gabriel D.
Organization(s):
UNEP
FAO
UNESCO
IUCN
Spain, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)