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This magnificient publication vividly portrays the beauty and grandeur of World Heritages Sites in North America - where the ideas of national parks, wilderness preservation and the World Heritage Convention began.

A major analysis of the protection status of the world's forests. This has produced an unprecedented amount of data on forest location, by type, and the amount of each forest type protected in each region of the world.

Marine waters comprise by far the most extensive major ecosystem on the planet.

The "1994 Red List of Threatened Animals" was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented. This is taken further in the 1996 edition, which is also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN red list category system.

The threats to the forests of tropical America have been the centre of international environmental concern for some time, yet the material in this atlas highlights the continuing extent of scientific uncertainty over the critical issues that will determine the future use and conservation of these

Paradise on Earth is the result of a collaboration between IUCN and Harper-MacRae Publishing (now World Heritage Publishing Pty. Ltd.) with support from UNESCO and WCMC.

These guidelines expand on the system of categories designed to provide a basis for international comparison, identifying categories by their main management objectives and offering 40 examples of how the six categories have been applied.

This plan sets out the policies and actions needed to ensure an adequate, effective and well-managed network of protected areas in Europe.

This work includes 140 pages of tabular data with supporting text and graphics, covering country species diversity, threatened species, national Red Data Book, major food crops, domestic livestock, marine resources, tropical forests, protected areas and systematics collections.

Prepared as an input to the discussions on the establishment, under the auspices of the Convention, of a clearing house to promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation in the field of conservation and sustainabile use of biological diversity.

These guidelines expand on the system of categories designed to provide a basis for international comparison, identifying categories by their main management objectives and offering 40 examples of how the six categories have been applied.