This list contains 591 entry(ies).
Engaging with business is vital for moving towards a more sustainable future. This paper examines nine different business and biodiversity platforms from across the IUCN network.
Author(s):
- Marre, Hélène
- Moey, Ann
- McCormick, Nadine
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
Ce rapport offre une synthèse des principales informations sur la mise en oeuvre de la Convention sur le patrimoine mondial en Afrique, ainsi que des orientations sur la façon dont la Convention peut contribuer aux efforts mondiaux en faveur de la conservation et au développement durable à l’aven
Author(s):
- Howard, Peter C.
- Bertzky, Bastian
Organization(s):
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
- IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
This report provides a synthesis of key information on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Africa, and some guidance on how it might contribute to global conservation efforts and sustainable development in the future.
Author(s):
- Howard, Peter C.
- Bertzky, Bastian
Organization(s):
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
- IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- IUCN
Le récit du voyage en Afrique du légendaire basketteur chinois Yao Ming pour défendre les éléphants et les rhinocéros contre les trafiqueants d'ivoire.
Vultures are a characteristic, distinctive and spectacular component of the biodiversity of the environments they inhabit. They also provide critically important ecosystem services by cleaning up carcasses and other organic waste in the environment.
Organization(s):
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), Secretariat
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Vulture Specialist Group
- BirdLife International
- Vulture Conservation Foundation
Here we report on the ninth iteration of the biennial listing of a consensus of the 25 primate species considered to be among the most endangered worldwide and the most in need of conservation measures.
Author(s):
- Schwitzer, Christoph
- Mittermeier, Russell A.
- Rylands, Anthony B.
- Chiozza, Federica
- Williamson, Elizabeth A.
- Macfie, Elizabeth J.
- Wallis, Janette
- Cotton, Alison
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
- International Primatological Society
- Conservation International
- Bristol Zoological Society (BZS), UK
Organization(s):
- Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC)
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)
- IUCN Global Species Programme
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
Cette publication est un résultat du troisième Forum régional pour les océans, les côtes et le bien-être humain en Afrique de Blue Solutions qui s’est tenu au printemps 2016. Elle compile 32 solutions bleues de l’Afrique dont la plupart ont été présentées pendant l’événement.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- UNEP
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), African Elephant Specialist Group
This publication is a result of the Blue Solutions’ third Regional Forum for Oceans, Coasts and Human Well-Being in Africa held in spring 2016. It compiles 32 blue solutions from Africa, most of which were presented during the event.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- UNEP
Participatory 3D modelling (P3DM) is one of the most remarkable innovations of the late 20th century. This volume bears testimony to the multiple uses and values of P3DM.
Organization(s):
- Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), NL
This report explores how the law shapes opportunities for accountability in relation to land deals for agribusiness investments. The report draws on country studies in Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal.
Author(s):
- Cotula, Lorenzo
- Jokubauskaite, Giedre
Organization(s):
- Centre pour l'environnement et le développement (CED)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Innovation Environnement Développement en Afrique (IED Afrique)
- Land Resources Management Centre (LRMC)
This report aims to contribute to the international effort to combat wildlife crime in Sub-Saharan African protected areas by providing a systematic and evidence-based review of law enforcement practices that have proved to be effective in different situations, and by identifying emerging best pr
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)
- IUCN Global Species Programme
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
Organization(s):
- UNEP, Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA)
Ce document s’adresse aux gestionnaires qui souhaitent établir un diagnostic préalable à la mise en oeuvre de la gestion communautaire de la chasse.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
- Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), FR
- FAO
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
The Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity’s appropriation of the earth’s wildlife and mineral riches—in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarized, and near resource extractio
Organization(s):
- Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Small Arms Survey
Author(s):
- Bacha, Thomas
- Laratte, Clémentine
- Sanon, Arsène
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Comité français de l'UICN
- Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial (FFEM), FR
- IUCN Programme for African Protected Areas & Conservation (PAPACO)
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
UNESCO biosphere reserves are regions that resemble protected areas, but go far beyond mere protection.
Author(s):
- Amer, Wafaa
- Ashong, Sheila
- Tiomoko, Djafarou
Organization(s):
- AfriMAB
- ArabMAB
- German Commission for UNESCO
UNESCO biosphere reserves are regions that resemble protected areas, but go far beyond mere protection.
Author(s):
- Amer, Wafaa
- Ashong, Sheila
- Tiomoko, Djafarou
Organization(s):
- AfriMAB
- ArabMAB
- German Commission for UNESCO
UNESCO biosphere reserves are regions that resemble protected areas, but go far beyond mere protection.
Author(s):
- Amer, Wafaa
- Ashong, Sheila
- Tiomoko, Djafarou
Organization(s):
- AfriMAB
- ArabMAB
- German Commission for UNESCO
Author(s):
- Chiozza, Federica
- Cotton, Alison
- Mittermeier, Russell A.
- Rylands, Anthony B.
- Schwitzer, Christoph
- Wallis, Janette
- Williamson, Elizabeth A.
Organization(s):
- Bristol Zoological Society (BZS), UK
- Conservation International
- International Primatological Society
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
In this publication, several case studies from the African continent illustrate the "nature-based solutions" approach and offer hope that effective solutions to the climate change dilemma can be addressed through local responses that also achieve mutual benefits for biodiversity conservation and
Author(s):
- Fischborn, Marie
- Herr, Dorothée
Organization(s):
- Agence Française de Développement, FR
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
- IUCN, Global Protected Areas Programme
La présente analyse de situation a été réalisée pour éclairer les réponses à plusieurs résolutions formulées lors du 5 Congrès mondial de la nature en 2012, concernant l'état critique des grands vertébrés d'Afrique centrale et de l'Ouest.
Author(s):
- Aalen, Frederick H. A.
- Grainger, Matthew J.
- Hibert, Fabrice
- Hoffmann, Michael
- Mallon, David P.
- McGowan, Philip J. K.
- Vliet, Nathalie van
Organization(s):
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
- IUCN Global Species Programme
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- SOS - Save Our Species
Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere.
Author(s):
- Leach, Melissa
- Scoones, Ian
This situation analysis was undertaken to inform responses to several resolutions made at the 5th World Conservation Congress in 2012 about the plight of large vertebrates in West and Central Africa.
Author(s):
- Aalen, Frederick H. A.
- Grainger, Matthew J.
- Hibert, Fabrice
- Hoffmann, Michael
- Mallon, David P.
- McGowan, Philip J. K.
- Vliet, Nathalie van
Organization(s):
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
- IUCN Global Species Programme
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- SOS - Save Our Species
Author(s):
- Butler, Tom
- Crist, Eileen
- Wuerthner, George
Organization(s):
- Foundation for Deep Ecology
Organization(s):
- IUCN Programme for African Protected Areas & Conservation (PAPACO)
Ce plan d'action définit une stratégie de conservation des gorilles et des chimpanzés en Afrique équatoriale occidentale.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
The action plan lays out a conservation strategy for gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa. The Endangered central chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes and the Critically Endangered western lowland gorilla Gorilla gorilla gorilla are undergoing a dramatic decline due to poaching
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
La Commission de la Sauvegarde des Espèces (CSE) de l'Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature (UICN) décrit par la présente sa position par rapport à l'incidence et l'ampleur croissantes de l'utilisation de poisons qui a provoqué un déclin catastrophique des populations d'animaux s
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
This position statement was published by the IUCN Species Survival Commission to outline its position in relation to the increasing incidence and scale of the use of poison causing catastrophic declines in wildlife populations across Africa in recent years.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
This report is the seventh iteration of the biennial listing of a consensus of the 25 primate species considered to be among the most endangered worldwide and the most in need of conservation measures.
Author(s):
- Chiozza, Federica
- Clark, Fay E.
- Mittermeier, Russell A.
- Rylands, Anthony B.
- Schwitzer, Christoph
- Taylor, Lucy A.
- Wallis, Janette
- Williamson, Elizabeth A.
Organization(s):
- Bristol Zoological Society (BZS), UK
- Conservation International
- International Primatological Society
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Institut de la Francophonie pour le Développement Durable (IFDD), CN
- Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, SN
This book describes how the four-year GEF-funded project “Removing Barriers to Invasive Plant Management in Africa” was instrumental in developing ways of limiting the severe ecological, social and economic impacts in different parts of Africa of a number of particularly devastating alien plant i
Organization(s):
- CAB International
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), GH
- Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), ET
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- IUCN
- Uganda, National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO)
- UNEP
- Zambia, Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA)
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in acquiring farmland for agricultural investments in lower-income countries.
Author(s):
- Polack, Emily
- Cotula, Lorenzo
- Côte, Muriel
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- International Development Research Centre, CA
The African elephant, the largest remaining land mammal on the planet, is facing the greatest crisis in decades. Reports of mass elephant killings in the media vividly illustrate the situation across many African elephant range states.
Author(s):
- Blanc, Julian J.
- De Meulenaer, T.
- Formo, Rannveig K.
- Milliken, Tom
- Nellemann, C. (Christian)
- Skinner, Diane
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Secretariat
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), African Elephant Specialist Group
- TRAFFIC International
- UNEP
- UNEP, Global Resource Information Database (GRID)
The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.
Author(s):
- Anderson, Emily
- Zerriffi, Hisham
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
This paper examines the volumes, sources and flows of e-waste, the risks it poses to e-waste workers and the environment, occupational safety and health issues, labour issues and regulatory frameworks, and links this growing global problem with the International Labour Organizations (ILO) curren
Organization(s):
- ILO
- ILO, Sectoral Activities Department (SECTOR)
- ILO, Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment (SafeWork)
Overall, this thesis contributes to the understanding how marketing can help to solve sustainability problems in pastoral areas, in particular the Horn of Africa. It also contributes to the extension of marketing theories from high income countries to informal economies in emerging markets.
This paper is a UNISDR contribution towards effective Drought Contingency Planning (DCP) for stakeholders and partners implementing drought risk reduction programmes in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA).
Organization(s):
- United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
- European Commission
This book analyzes the state and management of national parks in Africa. It discusses the state of ecosystems of national parks in the continent and assesses the capacity of environmental leadership and management to positively impact on biodiversity conservation in national pakrs.
Author(s):
- Boon, Emmanuel K.
- Hens, Luc
- Oviedo, Gonzalo
This report, two years in the making, provides a comprehensive assessment of progress being made towards SFM in each ITTO producer member country and identifies the challenges remaining.
Organization(s):
- International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Southern Africa Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SASUSG)
- Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The Bradley Fund for the Environment, US
Author(s):
- Barrett, Amanda
- Scholey, Keith
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