Reports on the status of protected areas establishment and management, principally in China, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. These countries exhibit great biological and cultural diversity and all are characterised by great pressures on natural resources.
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
The practice of keeping live birds in captivity has been widespread throughout this century and has increased considerably as the 20th century comes to a close.
This volume presents 21 papers given at a workshop held to demonstrate future policy towards hunting by tourists in Tanzania. It brings together contributions from experts from eastern and southern African countries.
First edited in English, this is the first fully comprehensive study of the current state of the tropical moist forests of Africa. African moist forests, containing well over half the continent's biological diversity, are disappearing at a rate of about 2 per year, the fastest in the world.
Author(s):
Collins, N. Mark
Doumenge, Charles
Harcourt, Caroline S.
Larivière, Jean
Lhermillier, Nelly
Sayer, Jeffrey
Organization(s):
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
Comité national des Membres de l’UICN de France
Fondation Nicolas Hulot pour la nature et l'homme, FR
Examines the environmental impact of mining and the mineral industry, with a special emphasis on tropical forests. Two cases are described in detail, the Carajás area in Brazil and the Mt Nimba iron ore project on the border of Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa.
Explores various approaches including those which are forest-related such as community forestry and joint forest management as well as those concerned with protected areas. Covers key issues of theory and implementation and methodolgies for implementation
This global directory provides detailed bibliographic information with full abstracts on more than 420 reports for 180 countries. Information can be found by region, country or subject and complete order details are provided for each entry.
Organization(s):
World Resources Institute (WRI)
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
IUCN
Australia, Australian International Development Assistance Bureau
Denmark, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Il s'agit du recueil des procès-verbaux de la conférence sur les écosystèmes des forêts denses humides d'Afrique centrale qui a eu lieu à Brazzaville, Congo, du 28 au 30 mai 1996.
Author(s):
Ndinga, Assitou
Organization(s):
IUCN
United States, AID
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
Investigates and documents the land use systems, vegetation, wildlife and limnology of the Nepal's Begnas and Rupa watersheds. The study identifies the various types of land use in the watershed area and ascertains the government policies that influence land use.
Organization(s):
IUCN Nepal
Nepal, National Conservation Strategy Implementation Programme
Nepal, National Planning Commission
Switzerland, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
La création de la Réserve naturelle de l'Aïr et du Ténéré (RNNAT) est le fruit d'un processus qui a débuté à l'initiative de l'UICN, du WWF et du PNUE. La RNNAT couvre une surface de 77 360km2 et occupe des paysages très divers.
Author(s):
Giazzi, Franck
Organization(s):
IUCN
Denmark, DANIDA
Niger, Ministère de l'hydraulique et de l'environnement
The legislation of five countries on environmental and natural management is examined and analyzed in terms of its effectiveness in addressing the major environmental issues existing in each country.
Author(s):
Boer, Ben
Pulea, Mere
Harding, Elizabeth
Organization(s):
IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), Secretariat
Large areas previously occupied by Warsaw Pact forces have been vacated in Central and Eastern Europe after the political changes in 1989 and 1990. Many of these areas are potentially rich in natural resources and variety of habitats.
Overview of the findings of regional TRAFFIC studies in Europe, India, East and Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Oceania and North and South America.
Author(s):
Rose, Debra A.
Organization(s):
TRAFFIC International
Center for Marine Conservation, US
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Shark Specialist Group
The findings from investigations of sturgeon fisheries, and information from caviar importers in consuming countries, sturgeon specialists and fisheries agencies are presented.
This publication gives an account of the challenges currently being faced by Lao PDR - an oasis of biodiversity richness nestled amid a group of countries whose biodiversity assets have been severly depleted as a result of economic and/or population pressures - as it struggles with the options be
The "1994 Red List of Threatened Animals" was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented. This is taken further in the 1996 edition, which is also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN red list category system.
"Collaborative management of protected areas" is a partnership by which various stakeholders agree on sharing among themselves the management functions, rights and responsibilities for a territory or a particular governmental agency staff - interested in pursuing the collaborative management opti
The key steps in the attempt to develop guidelines are covered. The introduction sets in context events so far. Part 1 includes the case studies which were used as a resource for drafting material for the assessment procedure and for examining the practicality of the draft guidelines.
Author(s):
Prescott-Allen, Robert
Prescott-Allen, Christine
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Specialist Group on Sustainable Use of Wild Species
