This primer was developed to increase the knowledge about biodiversity prospecting and its implications and was conceptualised after repeated requests from groups working in southern Africa on these difficult issues.
Author(s):
Laird, Sarah A.
Wynberg, Rachel
Organization(s):
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
IUCN South Africa
United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
This report provides the findings of biodiversity resource inventory of Bhadaure Tamagi VDC of Kaski district of Western Nepal, with clear mapping of all important ecosystems, including forest, agriculture, wetland and bodies of water.
This study examines the four options being considered by the European Commission for dealing with indirect land use change (ILUC) arising from the use of biofuels under the Renewable Energy Directive.
Organization(s):
Ernst and Young, UK
IUCN
ePURE (European Renewable Ethanol Association), BE
Neste Oil, FI
Partners for Euro-African Green Energy (PANGEA), BE
This compilation brings together current information on the status of Asian freshwater cetacean populations, the factors that have caused their recent declines, and what can be done to improve their chances for survival.
Author(s):
Reeves, Randall R.
Smith, Brian D.
Kasuya, Toshio
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
Oman, Sir Peter Scott IUCN/SSC Action Plan Fund
Chicago Zoological Society, US
Taiwan, Council of Agriculture
WWF International
United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Assesses the role of the MAB Programme in promoting biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, based on the outcome of a workshop held at the 1st World Conservation Congress, 1996. Included are several key papers which demonstrate experiences from around the world.
La biodiversidad y el carbono orgánico en los suelos determinan en gran medida el papel de la tierra en la producción de alimentos, el almacenamiento de agua, y la mitigación del cambio climático.
Out of all the biological carbon (or green carbon) captured in the world, over half is captured by marine living organisms --- hence it is called "blue carbon".
Author(s):
Nellemann, C. (Christian)
Corcoran, Emily
Duarte, Carlos M.
Valdes, Luis
DeYoung, Cassandra
Fonseca, Luciano
Grimsditch, Gabriel D.
Organization(s):
UNEP
FAO
UNESCO
IUCN
Spain, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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.
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.
Au Burkina Faso, le bois-énergie est encore la principale source énergétique des ménages et avec laccroissement de la démographie et donc de la demande dénergie dans les vingt prochaines années, la question de la gestion rationnelle des ressources forestières se pose donc.
The objectives of the first edition of the Pangani situation analysis included identifying the resources that occupy the Pangani River Basin (PRB) and the processes and events that affect them, and identifying a series of broad action areas wherein interventions may feasibly be delivered.
Organization(s):
IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
The protection and revival of degraded and deforested land is the need of the hour. In order to tackle the issues that arise as a consequence of degradation and deforestation, principles of forest landscape restoration are being globally promoted.
Author(s):
Borah, B.
Bhattacharjee, A.
Ishwar, N.M.
Organization(s):
IUCN India
India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
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
Le but de la nouvelle stratégie est dassurer la protection à long terme des bonobos partout dans leur aire de répartition par la mise en oeuvre dactions permettant de réduire, et si possible déliminer les menaces directes et les facteurs sous-jacents causant le déclin des populations.
Organization(s):
Institut congolais pour la conservation de la nature, CG
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
Los bosques del Patrimonio Mundial constituyen algunos de los hábitats más biológicamente diversos de la Tierra y desempeñan un papel crucial en la regulación del clima absorbiendo el dióxido de carbono (CO2) de la atmósfera.
Following the first international workshop on the economics of ocean acidification organized by the Centre Scientifique de Monaco and the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2010, a second international workshop was held in November 2012, which explored the level of risk, and the resilience or
