Las áreas marinas protegidas (AMP) en toda la Red MedPAN se enfrentan a retos comunes, entre ellos la falta de concienciación y entendimiento de los impactos de especies invasoras, la escasez de información sobre mejores prácticas de gestión y la falta de información de referencia, directrices y
Marine protected areas (MPAs) across the MedPAN Network face common challenges, among them the lack of awareness and understanding of the impacts of invasive species, the scarcity of information on best management practices and a lack of baseline information, guidelines and trained local staff to
In order to gain further experience on rights-based approaches (RBAs) to conservation, the project focused on undertaking a situation analysis in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site in Lao PDR.
Author(s):
Moore, Patricia
Pholsena, Minavanh
Phommachanh, Ketsana
Glémet, Raphaël
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Laos
Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development
Finland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
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.
The research focused on the perceptions of communities on the role of ecosystems for disaster risk reduction, particularly in the context of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan.
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
This report presents insights on both critical water-related ecosystem services and also on the wider ecosystem services from wetlands. The objective is encourage additional policy momentum, business commitment, and investment in the conservation, restoration, and wise use of wetlands.
Organization(s):
Institute for European Environmental Policy, UK
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
Wetlands International
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
The Greening Blue Energy project aims to facilitate well-balanced and science-based discussions on the impacts on the marine environment from offshore renewable energy developments and as such this publication provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the potential biodiversity impacts of offs
This document summarizes TRAFFIC’s comprehensive overview of events and dynamics currently driving an escalating illicit trade in rhino horns from South Africa to Viet Nam.
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):
Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
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):
Kashwan, Prakash
Organization(s):
IUCN
Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
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):
Ribot, Jesse C.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
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):
Kashwan, Prakash
Organization(s):
IUCN
Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
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):
Rutt, Rebecca L.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
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):
Mutasa, Mukundi
Organization(s):
IUCN
Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
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)
La población indígena de la Muskitia carece de instrumentos que le permita negociar y defender sus derechos reconocidos en los marcos legales nacionales e internacionales, principalmente cuando se trata de acciones de conservación de los recursos naturales desde la cosmovisión indígena.
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
Mosquitia Asla Takanka-Unidad de la Mosquitia (MASTA), HN
Esta publicación representa una contribución desde la UICN que demuestra la aplicación práctica de esta útil herramiento del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CBD) en la gestión de las áreas protegidas en Sudamérica.
This Resource Manual has a specific purpose: helping to manage natural values within World Heritage properties. As such it is aimed at natural and mixed World Heritage properties as well as cultural landscapes (inscribed under cultural criteria).
Organization(s):
IUCN
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), IT
The objective of this report is to provide an overview of alternative macroeconomic indicators of economic progress and sustainable development, focusing in particular on efforts to incorporate environmental and natural resource measurements that are not typically included in traditional measures
This Strategy aims to encourage transformational and demonstrable change at the company and sectoral level in how biodiversity is valued and managed by businesses in order to conserve and restore biodiversity and to ensure that biodiversity benefits are shared equitably.
This document focuses on summarizing the different threats to long term objectives and proposing activities to address these threats. It constitutes a management and action plan for the period from January 2013 until December 2017.
Organization(s):
ANA Sales, JP
Finland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
IUCN
Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center (OECC), JP
Drawing on a cross-section of 43 case studies prepared specially for this book, WaterWealth explains the challenges to improving water governance and management across Asia and the Pacific region.
Author(s):
Das, Binayak
Lincklaen Arriëns, Wouter
Makin, Ian
Pangare, Ganesh
Organization(s):
IUCN
Academic Foundation, IN
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
Network of Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO)
Cette publication fournit aux gestionnaires daires protégées terrestres, marines et deau douce des orientations quant à la restauration de leurs valeurs naturelles et autres, aussi bien au niveau du système que du site.
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
Le présent document contient le Programme de lUICN 2013-2016, approuvé par le Conseil en février 2012 et fruit de très larges consultations, en 2011, avec les Membres et composantes de lUICN.
Este documento presenta el Programa de la UICN 2013-2016, aprobado por el Consejo en febrero de 2012, luego de extensas consultas con los Miembros y otros componentes de la UICN en 2011.
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.
Cette publication présente l'information sur l'état de conservation des mammifères marins et des tortues marines qui habitent la Méditerranée et la mer Noire.