This book provides new insights into biocultural diversity conservation. It explores sacred landscapes, sites, plants and animals from around the world to demonstrate the links between nature conservation and spiritual beliefs and traditions.
This paper focuses on interventions in the Benet landscape of Uganda which sought to improve the income opportunities for inhabitants through efforts to rehabilitate the degraded landscape.
The overarching objective of this framework is to contribute to the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) into business activities and to firmly position BES conservation among the private sector by engaging the top management of companies in the development, implementation and
This book is designed to help conservation organisations, community-based organisations and protected area managers plan and run effective ecotourism businesses.
This publication is dedicated to the topic of natural World Heritage. It explores how these outstanding sites can function as the flagships of protected areas and thereby support biodiversity conservation as well as human well-being.
Author(s):
Amend, Thora
Heine, Britta
Jaeger, Tilman
Treu, Nina
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development
Protected Landscapes are a strong option for biodiversity conservation in human-influenced landscapes and seascapes. They often contain threatened or endemic species. There is now also a growing interest in the nature conservation benefits of protected landscapes.
Author(s):
Dudley, Nigel
Stolton, Sue
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
This publication presents innovative ways that have been used to influence policy processes, from community pressure groups through elected and unelected leaders, to scientific discourse at the levels of directors of economic planning and conservation.
Author(s):
Davies, Jonathan
Organization(s):
IUCN
International Development Research Centre, CA
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
This paper describes Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy interventions in the Wassa Amenfi West Landscape in the western region of Ghana. The landscape extends over an area of about 120,000 ha. It is a mixed landscape with a variety of agricultural uses; the most important is cocoa farming.
This paper focuses on efforts to create value from non-timber forest products in the Acre region in the north-western part of the Amazon region in Brazil.
The Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy Miyun project has generated important lessons about the process of working to improve landscapes and livelihoods in a watershed context. This paper documents and shares these lessons.
Es importante integrar las consideraciones relativas a la biodiversidad en la localización y el diseño de hoteles y complejos turísticos para mantener a largo plazo no sólo la viabilidad y conservación de los ecosistemas sino también el éxito financiero de dichos hoteles y complejos.
Organization(s):
IUCN
France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
Intégrer les questions de biodiversité dans les décisions relatives à l'implantation et à la conception d'hôtels et de complexes hôteliers est important non tant pour la conservation et le maintien de la viabilité des écosystèmes, que pour la réussite financière à long terme des hôtels et des com
Organization(s):
IUCN
France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
Ces lignes directrices sont produites d'abord pour aider les gestionnaires d'aires protégées, particulièrement ceux dont les aires protégées, légalement établies, contiennent des sites sacrés à l'intérieur de leurs limites.
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.
Integrating biodiversity considerations into siting and design decisions for hotel and resort developments is important not only for the continued viability and conservation of the ecosystems, but also for the long-term financial success of the hotels and resorts.
Organization(s):
IUCN
France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
La biodiversidad juega un papel importante en la vida diaria de un hotel. Desde la comida del restaurante a la madera de los muebles y acabados, a las comodidades del spa, los productos de la biodiversidad se encuentran en cada rincón de los hoteles.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Accor
Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST)
Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)
Fondo para Iniciativas de Desarrollo Educativo de El Salvador (FIDES), SV
France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
Fundación Empresarial para la Acción Social (FUNDEMAS), SV
Beginning with a grassroots approach to water management, increased knowledge and information and the improvement of environmental health and livelihoods, the region around the Tacaná volcano on the border of Guatemala and Mexico has shown the way forward in scaling up local level approaches to n
The Water and Nature Initiates (WANI) activities in the Mekong followed a strategy of mobilizing grass-roots engagement of local stakeholders in decision making, while facilitating high-level dialogues.
This publication provides a unique insight into Europes often forgotten sacred natural sites. It looks into their history, importance and the threats they currently face.
The aim of this manual is to strengthen the community of practitioners who are using an innovative range of visual techniques in dealing with conservation and development situations.
Ce guide a pour objectif de faire connaître aux visiteurs du Parc National d'Al Hoceima (PNAH) la diversité faunistique et floristique, à travers la présentation dun peu plus de 80 espèces, communes ou emblématiques de la zone du Parc et dont certaines comptent parmi les espèces en danger ou men
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Morocco, Haut Commissariat aux Eaux et Forêts et à la Lutte contre la Désertification de Marruecos
SEO/Birdlife (Sociedad Española de Ornitología), ES
Biodiversity plays an important role in the day-to-day life of a hotel. From the food in the restaurant and wood in furniture and fittings, to the amenities in the spa, the products of biodiversity are everywhere inside hotels.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Accor
Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST)
Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)
France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
IUCN's Protected Areas Management Categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives, are today accepted as the benchmark for defining, recording and classifying protected areas.They are recognized by international bodies such as the United Nations as well as many
Organization(s):
IUCN
Biodiversity Foundation
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Spain, Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de Medio Ambiente
Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities.
Author(s):
Nelson, Fred
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Southern Africa Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SASUSG)
This study focuses on the area which stretches along sections of the border region between southwest Serbia and eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in the central part of the Drina River Valley.
