Complete summary of the scientific knowledge currently available on closing of the knowledge-implementation gap in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
In rangelands and grasslands, land degradation has an immediate and local impact by disrupting ecosystems from functioning, threatening livelihoods and negatively affecting social cohesion.
Land is the basis of human life. With climate change, the mass extinction of biological diversity and an often dysfunctional food system, we are experiencing three colliding global crises that are directly linked to the way we manage land.
International Treaties in Nature Conservation provides a unique insight into the inner mechanisms of international treaties – their history, development, successes and failures – from those who have spent their lives working with them.
This study aims to contribute to global and regional gender-climate policy data; enrich regional and national information to better target assistance to countries, their stakeholders and supporters; and inform more robust gender-responsive policymaking, knowledge and action at greater scales.
Increasing interest in measuring, modelling and valuing ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that ecosystems provide to people, has resulted in the development of an array of ES assessment tools in recent years. Selecting an appropriate tool for measuring and modelling ES can be challenging.
Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits.
Author(s):
Laestadius, Lars
Maginnis, Stewart
Rietbergen-McCracken, Jennifer
Saint-Laurent, Carole
Shaw, Daniel
Verdone, Michael
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)
In November 2018, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted at the 14th Conference of the Parties a definition of an "other effective area-based conservation measure" (OECM) as well as guiding principles, common characteristics and criteria for identification of OECMs (CBD/COP/DEC
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Task Force on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures
Este informe Conflicto y conservación se centra en los conflictos armados y la naturaleza. El tema es muy oportuno, ya que los conflictos armados causan grandes daños económicos y sociales, así como daños ambientales en todo el mundo.
Ce rapport Conflit et conservation met l’accent sur les conflits armés et la nature. Le sujet est tout à fait opportun, car les conflits armés causent de graves dommages économiques et sociaux, ainsi que des dommages environnementaux, partout dans le monde.
This summary for policy makers synthesises key issues, findings and recommendations from IUCN’s Gender-based violence and environment linkages: the violence of inequality (Castañeda et al., 2020).
Author(s):
Castañeda Carney, I.
Sabater, L.
Owren, C.
Boyer, A. E.
Organization(s):
IUCN Global Programme on Governance and Rights (GPGR)
This report has been prepared as part of an effort by IUCN to define its position on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and plan for future work to advance this concept and support effective implementation of NbS to enhance ecosystem services provision and address societal challenges. The report propos
Recent global initiatives in ecosystem restoration offer an unprecedented opportunity to improve biodiversity conservation and human health and well-being. Ecosystems form a core component of biodiversity.
This Tabe’a III report addresses the status and trends in the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the Arab region during the period from 2015 to 2019.
The World Heritage thematic study for Central Asia has been produced as a contribution to supporting the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Central Asia.
Author(s):
Lethier, Hervé
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECARO)
Women play a key role in nature conservation, yet they often lack the inputs, technologies, training and extension services, and various enablers and linkages that can enhance the effectiveness of their efforts.
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), Mountain Ecosystems Specialist Group
The Himalaya proper is commonly defined as the rugged arc between the Tibetan Plateau and the Ganges Plain stretching from the Indus River in the northwest to the great bend of the Brahmaputra River (Yarlung Tsangpo) in the east. The natural and cultural wealth of the HKH region is as overwhelmin
Author(s):
Jaeger, Tilman
Organization(s):
IUCN, World Heritage Programme
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), NP
World Heritage forests are some of the most biodiversity-rich habitats on Earth and play a crucial role in climate regulation by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. However, these forests are under increasing anthropogenic pressures, including climate change.
Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits.
Author(s):
Laestadius, Lars
Maginnis, Stewart
Rietbergen-McCracken, Jennifer
Saint-Laurent, Carole
Shaw, Daniel
Verdone, Michael
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)
Em novembro de 2018, tal situação foi resolvida quando, na COP 14 da CDB, as Partes adotaram uma definição de “outra medida efetiva de conservação baseada em área”, bem como os princípios orientadores, as características comuns e os critérios para a identificação das OMECs (CDB/COP/ DEC/14/8).
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Task Force on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures
En noviembre del 2018, en la 14ª Convención de los Miembros del CDB, los participantes adoptaron una definición de “otras medidas efectivas de conservación basadas en áreas” (OMEC), y determinaron sus principios rectores, características comunes y criterios para su identificación (CDB/COP/ DEC/14
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Task Force on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures
This think piece presents recommendations of the Science Task Force (STF) of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and comprised of leading subject experts as specific actions to be undertaken by public and private stakeholders t
Organization(s):
IUCN, Science Task Force for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Ces Lignes directrices sont destinées à améliorer la conservation et la gestion du géopatrimoine et de la géodiversité dans les aires protégées et conservées, et à reconnaître les interrelations et interactions avec les caractéristiques et processus biologiques.
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.
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Geoheritage Specialist Group
Governance is a critical determinant of the social equity, effectiveness and sustainability of natural resource use and conservation. Improving natural resource governance, including securing rights and sharing power and responsibilities, benefits both people and nature.
Author(s):
Springer, Jenny
Campese, Jessica
Nakangu, Barbara
Organization(s):
IUCN Global Programme on Governance and Rights (GPGR)
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
L’Afrique occidentale est riche en biodiversité d’eau douce et en endémicité régionale, soutenant l’ensemble des populations mondiales de nombreuses espèces d’eau douce menacées, notamment les poissons, les mollusques, les libellules, les crabes, les crevettes et les plantes aquatiques.
Organization(s):
IUCN Global Species Programme, Freshwater Biodiversity Unit
Western Africa is rich in freshwater biodiversity and regional endemicity, supporting the entire global populations of many threatened freshwater species including fishes, molluscs, dragonflies, crabs, shrimps and aquatic plants.
Organization(s):
IUCN Global Species Programme, Freshwater Biodiversity Unit
The Synthesis report provides a high-level overview of the main themes addressed in the Guidelines on mitigating biodiversity impacts associated with solar and wind energy development, published in 2021.
Achieving a climate-resilient future requires rapid, sustained and far-reaching transformations in energy, land-use, infrastructure and industrial systems.
Alongside their contribution to biodiversity conservation, protected and conserved areas are increasingly recognised as important sources of a wide range of benefits, or ecosystem services, that humans gain from intact, natural ecosystems.
Organization(s):
IUCN, Global Protected and Conserved Areas Programme (GPCAP)
