This report summarizes the conservation status of 167 freshwater fishes, 166 land snails and 157 reptiles native to the Pacific Islands of Oceania (Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia).
Author(s):
Pippard, Helen
Organization(s):
France, Fonds de Coopération économique, sociale et culturelle pour le Pacifique (Fonds Pacifique)
The Arabian Peninsula contains a diversity of desert and mountain habitats. Reptile species richness is high, with 172 species currently recognized. Among these, 89 species (52%) are endemic to the Arabian Peninsula.
Author(s):
Bowles, Philip
Cox, Neil
Els, Johannes
Mallon, David P.
Tognelli, Marcelo F.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
United Arab Emirates, Environment and Protected Areas Authority of Sharjah
United Arab Emirates, Environment and Protected Areas Authority of Sharjah, Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife
To address the lack of sufficent knowledge on wetland biodiversity in Tanguar Haor, a comprehensive survey on biodiversity was conducted to understand the present status, habitat classification, population density and diversity of wildlife.
The Members Assembly allows Members to contribute to the governance issues of the Union. During the Assembly, Members heard Commission reports, approved IUCNs programme of work for the next four years, and voted on Resolutions and Recommendations.
In 2011, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) convened conservation partners to develop a conservation action plan for great apes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with financial support from the Arcus Foundation.
Author(s):
Aveling, Conrad
Cox, Debby
Maldonado, Oscar
Merlo, Dario
Nishuli, Radar
Nixon, Stuart
Pintea, Lilian
Williamson, Elizabeth A.
Organization(s):
Congo, Democratic Republic of, Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism
Institut congolais pour la conservation de la nature, CG
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria were developed for classifying species at high risk of global extinction, i.e. for assessment at the global level.
This document presents the IUCN Programme 2013–2016, as endorsed by Council in February 2012, following extensive consultations with the Members and components of IUCN during 2011.
This report presents the highlights of IUCN Commission for Education and Communication (CEC) activities in 2012. The Commission engaged in initiatives supporting the IUCN One Programme, with an emphasis on building skills and raising awareness.
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction.
This guide is provides guidance on how to structure enabling investments and prepare the ground for asset investments that yield acceptable returns and reduced risk, not only for investors, but also for local forest right-holders, national governments and society at large.
Author(s):
Elson, Dominic
Organization(s):
FAO
Forests Dialogue, US
Growing Forest Partnerships
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
The new strategy aims to ensure the long-term protection of bonobos across their range through the implementation of conservation actions designed to reduce, and if possible eliminate, the direct threats and contributing factors that are causing bonobo populations to decline.
Organization(s):
Institut congolais pour la conservation de la nature, CG
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
The intent of this Strategy is to set the national priority actions needed for the establishment of new marine protected areas in Lebanon and for the proper management of existing and new marine protected areas (MPAs), and to define the type of interventions needed at technical, research, regulat
Organization(s):
Fondation MAVA pour la nature
Lebanon, Ministry of Environment
Spain, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
Spain, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales
UNEP, Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)
UNEP, Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP), Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA)
This publication presents a legal and institutional gap analysis of the project area, covering five seamount regions, two of which are inside proposed Benthic Protected Areas (BPAs), Atlantis Bank and Coral Seamount, and three outside BPAs.
Author(s):
Lugten, Gail
Verlaan, Philomène
Warner, Robin
Organization(s):
Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project (ASCLME)
The individual and cumulative threats to and effects of the full range of human activities on marine ecosystems and biodiversity in general, and seamounts in particular, in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) are still largely unknown.
Seamounts are topographic rises of the seabed with a limited extent across the summit. There is evidence that seamounts form hotspots of biological activity in the oceans. Why seamounts host abundant populations of fish and other pelagic and aquatic predators is still uncertain.
Author(s):
Rogers, Alex
Organization(s):
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
UNDP
University of Oxford, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, UK
This publication reflects on and reinforces the lessons and experience of undertaking transboundary conservation programmes and sets out some existing and new guidance for those involved.
The main goal of this Explanatory Guide is to facilitate the understanding of the legal obligations of the Parties under the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Author(s):
Ahrén, Mattias
Ali, Natasha
Cabrera Medaglia, Jorge A.
Greiber, Thomas
Kamau, Evanson C.
Nieto Carrasco, Jimena
Oliva, Maria Julia
Pena Moreno, Sonia
Perron-Welch, Frederic
Williams, China
Organization(s):
Denmark, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
This report presents highlights of CEC activities in 2011. The Commission engaged in initiatives supporting the IUCN One Programme, with an emphasis on building skills and raising awareness.
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
This facilitators guide for the Promoting Local Innovations (PLI) workshop has been developed to provide conservation and development practitioners working with coastal communities with an interactive and participatory tool that they can use to promote local innovations for climate change adapta
Author(s):
Roth, Andrea
Rist, Stephan
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
European Union
Universität Bern, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), CH
This report contains the most comprehensive assessment of the status and trends of the world's invertebrates conducted to date. It introduces the staggering diversity of invertebrates, ranging from microscopic zooplankton to giant squid.
The Protected Planet Report is a new initiative that tracks global progress towards Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversitys (CBD) Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
A series of dialogues organised by The Forests Dialogue (TFD) between 2009 and 2012 on investing in locally controlled forestry (ILCF) was designed to help catalyse investments in LCF by sharing learning between rights-holder groups and investors; improving mutual trust based on an agreed inves
The Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) was a five-year program implemented by IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and funded by DGIS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands).
It is commonly claimed that forest tenure reform that provides rural people with rights to access and use of forest resources can contribute to improved forest management and poverty alleviation.
This paper examines how interventions intended to improve functionality and productivity of forested landscapes to improve livelihoods of the poorest populations, might actually yield co-benefits in terms of biodiversity conservation.
The Doi Mae Salong watershed in the north-west of Thailand is the headwater of the Mae Chan River, a tributary of the Mekong River. As such, it is an extremely important landscape for the economy of the region.
This publication is intended to raise awareness amongst all stakeholders and galvanise wider action to boost drylands conservation and development. The book is designed to inform and remind us of the beauty of dryland biodiversity and its intrinsic and instrumental value.
Author(s):
Crawhall, Nigel
Davies, Jonathan
Dudley, Nigel
Gudka, Masumi
Henwood, William D.
MacKinnon, Kathy
Poulsen, Lene
Schulte-Herbrüggen, Björn
Smith, Jessica
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
UNEP-WCMC
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
This publication aims to provide the data, theory, and predictions for the potential long-term outcome of a biodiversity conservation programme at a mining site.
This publication provides guidance for terrestrial, marine, and freshwater protected area managers at both system and site levels on the restoration of natural and associated values of protected areas.
Author(s):
Cairns, Stephanie
Dudley, Nigel
Hall, Carol
Keeneleyside, Karen
Stolton, Sue
Organization(s):
IUCN
Canada, Parks Canada
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Society for Ecological Restoration International, US
With the smaller number of marine protected areas (MPAs) compared with terrestrial protected areas, there is less experience and understanding of applying the categories to MPAs. Application of the categories to MPAs has often been inaccurate and inconsistent.
Author(s):
Day, Jon
Dudley, Nigel
Hockings, Marc
Holmes, G.
Laffoley, D.
Stolton, Sue
Wells, Sue
Organization(s):
IUCN
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
This booklet describes some of the plants present in and around Lake Tanganyika that can affect its environment and biodiversity. There are many such plants and there will be more, but this small volume is a starting handbook to invasive plant recognition, understanding and management.
Author(s):
Abonyo, Esther
Howard, Geoffrey W.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA), BI
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
UNDP
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
This study, based on a colloquium, field assessments of development activities and technical analyses pertaining to barrier-built estuaries and lagoons, was inspired by the positive response to a preceding report captioned <a href=http
This report from the IUCN Shark Specialist Group includes the first compilation of conservation status assessments for the 282 chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, and chimaeras) recorded from North American, Central American, and Caribbean waters.
Author(s):
Kyne, Peter M.
Carlson, John K. (John Keith)
Ebert, David A.
Fordham, Sonja V.
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
Graham, Rachel T.
Kulka, David W.
Tewes, Emily E.
Harrison, Lucy R.
Dulvy, Nicholas K.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Shark Specialist Group
Charles Darwin University, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL), AU
This report focuses on the role and importance of the fishing and tourism industries in Vanuatus economy. The report begins by presenting an overview of the country, its economy, and the fishing and tourism industries.
This report presents an overview of the economy of Fiji with an emphasis on the fishing and tourism industries and their contributions to the broader economy.
This project aims to assess the socioeconomic value of freshwater species across the northern African region within the context of the threats to those species as previously determined and documented by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Author(s):
Darwall, W.R.T.
Juffe-Bignoli, Diego
Organization(s):
IUCN
Spain, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
