Coastal blue carbon ecosystems, including mangroves, seagrasses and tidal marshes, are some of the most carbon-rich ecosystems on Earth, and are vital to mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Volume 8 of the Handbook of Mammals of the World (HMW) contains an unusual compilation of important but smaller orders that we now know have either distant or nearly no taxonomic relationships. They include armadillos, sloths and anteaters.
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
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are areas contributing significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity. KBAs need to be managed to ensure environmental flows are sufficient to support these fragile freshwater ecosystems.
Freshwater habitats and biodiversity in the Arabian Peninsula are unique and highly valued for the essential role they play in people's survival, as well as that of its native flora and fauna.
Across the globe, women are heavily involved in the environmental sector, including in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and in adapting to and mitigating climate change.
Wetlands have been the focus of conservation and restoration efforts for over a century, and governments, international actors (NGOs and academia) and local communities around the world are now increasingly engaging in wetland restoration or avoiding wetland degration activities for climate chang
Humankind has long felt a kinship of ocean-dwelling mammals, and human culture, customs, and literature abound with sea mammal lore. This volume covers 19 families in 3 orders.
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
Everybody knows that humans are members of the mammalian Order Primates, but ask somebody to name some of our cousins and they would at best come up with five or six of the most widely known.
Development and implementation of blue carbon-based activities now requires strategic policy and incentive mechanisms to achieve coastal conservation, restoration and sustainable use, and provide disincentives to drain or damage coastal systems.
Ce document propose une série de projets de principes et de directives pour jeter les bases dune planification de lEbA. Ils sont destinés à un usage de planification dadaptation nationale, par des institutions financières, et dans le cadre de projets de recherche.
Author(s):
Andrade Pérez, Angela
Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
Dave, Radhika
Girot, Pascal
Herrera Fernández, Bernal
Munrol, Robert
Oglethorpe, J. (Judy)
Paaby, Pía
Pramova, Emilia
Vergara, Walter
Watson, James
Organization(s):
BirdLife International
CARE International
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
Conservation International
Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN)
This document proposes a series of draft principles and guidelines that were produced at a workshop with participation of its authors in June 2011, with the aim to serve as a foundation for planning ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation.
Author(s):
Andrade Pérez, Angela
Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
Dave, Radhika
Girot, Pascal
Herrera Fernández, Bernal
Munrol, Robert
Oglethorpe, J. (Judy)
Paaby, Pía
Pramova, Emilia
Watson, James
Vergara, Walter
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
BirdLife International
Inter-American Development Bank
Conservation International
WWF International
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ID
CARE International
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), US
Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN)
Dans ce volume, vous trouverez les informations les plus récentes sur la distribution des espèces confrontées à un risque dextinction élevé dans certains des écosystèmes les plus importants du monde, et sur les raisons de ce déclin.
Development and implementation of blue carbon-based activities now requires strategic policy and incentive mechanisms for coastal conservation, restoration and sustainable use, and and disincentives to drain or damage coastal systems. Currently no broad, strategic program exists to achieve this.
This second volume in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series covers 17 families in six orders; although united here, their grouping as "hoofed mammals" is more practical than phylogenetic.
West Africa, from the coast of Senegal to Lake Chad and Cameroon's Sanaga River, is home to 60 primate species and subspecies, 46 of which occur nowhere else. They range from the nocturnal angwantibo, pottos, and galagos, to the mangabeys, baboons, and the drill, to guenons and colobus monkeys.
Author(s):
Nash, Stephen D.
Oates, J.F.
Organization(s):
Conservation International
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
As part of a comprehensive strategy to highlight and help prioritize urgently needed conservation action for the most critically endangered turtles and tortoises in the world, the Turtle Conservation Coalition have highlighted the Top 25 most endangered species every four years since 2003.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group
This is a report of a range of activities happened in the Pacific during the Year of Biodiversity (PYoB) 2010. It contains the PYoB in pictures, SPREP's work in 2010, initiatives and knowledge products launched during the year.
Organization(s):
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), Secretariat
The third edition of this title has been designed for easy use and to be an indispensable companion for the ecotourist, and especially for the primate-watcher.
This report has been produced by ZSL in collaboration with WWF, IUCN and SSC. It considers for the first time the current status and trends of global vertebrates in the context of human pressures, with a particular focus on threatened, novel and evolutionary distinct species.
This first volume in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series deals with the following families: African Palm Civet; Cats; Linsangs; Civets, Genets and Oyans; Hyenas; Mongooses; Euplerids; Dogs; Bears; Red Panda; Racoons; Skunks; Weasels, Martens, Polecats, Badgers and Otters.
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
What makes our planet's natural treasures worth saving, and why should we care? With hundreds of stunning full-color photographs and more than twenty essays from some of the world's most respected scientists, this latest publication in the CEMEX Conservation Book Series aims to provide some of t
Author(s):
Ash, Neville
Boltz, Frederick
Brooks, Thomas M.
McNeely, Jeffrey A.
Mittermeier, Russell A.
Organization(s):
IUCN
CEMEX, MX
Conservation International
International League of Conservation Photographers
Chelonian Research Monographs is an international peer-reviewed scientific publication series for monograph-length manuscripts, collected proceedings of symposia, edited compilations, and other longer turtle-related research documents.
Author(s):
Buhlmann, Kurt A.
Dijk, Peter Paul van
Iverson, John B.
Mittermeier, Russell A.
Pritchard, Peter Charles Howard
Rhodin, Anders G. J.
Saumure, Raymond A.
Organization(s):
Chelonian Research Foundation, US
Conservation International
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group
Amphibian populations are disappearing from habitats all around the world. The crisis caught us by surprise - and only now are we able to fully grasp the scope of the situation.
Author(s):
Church, Don R.
Collins, James P.
Gascon, Claude
McKay, Jeanne E.
Mendelson III, Joseph R.
Moore, Robin D.
Organization(s):
Conservation International
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Amphibian Specialist Group
The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) is recognized by IUCN as Critically Endangered, and is the most threatened taxon of ape in Africa. Work during the last two decades has revealed that fewer than 300 Cross River gorillas may remain, spread across an area of about 12,000 km2.
Author(s):
Bergl, Richard
Dunn, Andrew
Fotso, Roger Corneille
Imong, Inaoyom
Nicholas, Aaron
Nkembi, Louis
Oates, J.F.
Omeni, Fidelis
Sunderland-Groves, Jacqueline L.
Takang, Ebai
Williamson, Elizabeth A.
Organization(s):
Conservation International
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
