The rationale for this three-volume work covering nearly 250 major sites for conservation of plant diversity worldwide is concern about rapid global loss and degradation of natural ecosystems.
Author(s):
Davis, Stephen D.
Heywood, Vernon
Organization(s):
IUCN
European Communities, Commission
Smithsonian Institution, US
United Kingdom, Overseas Development Administration
Reflexiones sobre el estado de la política forestal a nivel regional y nacional. Contiene además una serie de propuestas y acciones prácticas para trabajar en el gran desafío de asegurar la sostenibilidad ambiental en los países centroamericanos.
Author(s):
Rodríguez Quirós, Jorge Eduardo
Hernández, Gabriela
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
PROARCA
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
Many environmental and social benefits will result from implementing activities to tackle emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and to promote the conservation of forest carbon stocks, as well as from the sustainable management of forests and carbon enhancements in developing countr
Author(s):
Balderas Torres, Arturo
Skutsch, Margaret McCall
Organization(s):
Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), MX
Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
Climate change is here and will be with us for the long term. The challenge facing water professionals is how to make decisions in the face of this new uncertainty.
Ce document de référence, réalisé par l'UICN en partenariat avec l'ONERC, fait suite aux actes de la conférence "L'Union européenne et l'Outre-mer: Stratégies face au changement climatique et à la perte de Biodiversité" qui s'est tenue à La Réunion du 7 au 11 juillet 2008.
Author(s):
Petit, Jérôme
Prudent, Guillaume
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, European Regional Office
France, Observatoire National sur les Effets du Réchauffement Climatique (ONERC)
Ce document de référence, réalisé par l'UICN en partenariat avec l'ONERC, offre pour la première fois une analyse comparative des 28 collectivités d'outremer de l'Union Européenne.
Author(s):
Petit, Jérôme
Prudent, Guillaume
Organization(s):
IUCN
European Union
France, Observatoire National sur les Effets du Réchauffement Climatique (ONERC)
Climate change is here and will be with us for the long term. The challenge facing water professionals is how to make decisions in the face of this new uncertainty.
The 2003 version of the CITES Checklist not only provides an alphabetical list of the fauna and flora included in Appendices I, II and III of CITES as adopted by the Conference of the Parties, but includes as well a CD-ROM containing the Annotated Appendices which have an index to family names an
Organization(s):
UNEP-WCMC
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Secretariat
European Union, Commission
United Kingdom, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
This checklist provides alphabetical lists of the species of fauna and flora included in Appendices I, II and III of CITES in order to help management and scientific authorities, customs officials, and all others involved in implementing and enforcing the Convention.
Organization(s):
WCMC
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), Secretariat
This checklist provides alphabetical lists of the species of fauna and flora included in Appendices I, II and III of CITES in order to help management and scientific authorities, customs officials, and all others involved in implementing and enforcing the Convention.
Organization(s):
WCMC
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Secretariat
European Union, Commission
United Kingdom, Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
The 2005 version of the CITES Checklist not only provides an alphabetical list of the fauna and flora included in Appendices I, II and III of CITES as adopted by the Conference of the Parties, but includes as well a CD-ROM containing the Annotated Appendices which have an index to family names an
Author(s):
Inskipp, Tim
Gillett, Harriet J.
Organization(s):
UNEP-WCMC
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Secretariat
The goal of this toolkit is to help promote environmental stewardship and increase awareness of marine and coastal ecosystems among schoolchildren in Asia through the use of creative, investigative approaches.
Author(s):
Hoon, Vineeta
Kanvinde, Hemal
Sriskanthan, Gaya
Organization(s):
IUCN
Centre for Action Research on Environment Science and Society (CARESS), IN
Coral Reef Degradation in the Indian Ocean (CORDIO)
Les chimpanzés vivent à létat sauvage uniquement en Afrique tropicale où leur population a diminué de plus de 66% au cours des trente dernières années.
Author(s):
Bakarr, Mohamed I.
Boesch, Christophe
Butynski, Thomas M.
Kormos, Rebecca
Organization(s):
Conservation International, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
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)
A symposium on community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) for the conservation of CITES-listed species was organized by the Austrian Ministry of the Environment and the European Commission in Vienna, Austria, in May 2010.
Author(s):
Abensperg-Traun, Max
Roe, Dilys
O'Criodain, Colman
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
This checklist gives information on a number of species of Cactaceae included in Appendices I and II of CITES regarding their identification, nomenclature and distribution. It is a first step towards a better implementation of CITES for this group of plants.
Author(s):
Hunt, David R.
Organization(s):
International Organization for Succulent Plant Study
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Secretariat
