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.
The main goal of this Explanatory Guide is to facilitate the understanding of the legal obligations of the Parties under the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Author(s):
Ahrén, Mattias
Ali, Natasha
Cabrera Medaglia, Jorge A.
Greiber, Thomas
Kamau, Evanson C.
Nieto Carrasco, Jimena
Oliva, Maria Julia
Pena Moreno, Sonia
Perron-Welch, Frederic
Williams, China
Organization(s):
Denmark, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
This report presents highlights of CEC activities in 2011. The Commission engaged in initiatives supporting the IUCN One Programme, with an emphasis on building skills and raising awareness.
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
This facilitators guide for the Promoting Local Innovations (PLI) workshop has been developed to provide conservation and development practitioners working with coastal communities with an interactive and participatory tool that they can use to promote local innovations for climate change adapta
Author(s):
Roth, Andrea
Rist, Stephan
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
European Union
Universität Bern, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), CH
This report contains the most comprehensive assessment of the status and trends of the world's invertebrates conducted to date. It introduces the staggering diversity of invertebrates, ranging from microscopic zooplankton to giant squid.
The Protected Planet Report is a new initiative that tracks global progress towards Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversitys (CBD) Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
A series of dialogues organised by The Forests Dialogue (TFD) between 2009 and 2012 on investing in locally controlled forestry (ILCF) was designed to help catalyse investments in LCF by sharing learning between rights-holder groups and investors; improving mutual trust based on an agreed inves
The Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) was a five-year program implemented by IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and funded by DGIS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands).
It is commonly claimed that forest tenure reform that provides rural people with rights to access and use of forest resources can contribute to improved forest management and poverty alleviation.
This paper examines how interventions intended to improve functionality and productivity of forested landscapes to improve livelihoods of the poorest populations, might actually yield co-benefits in terms of biodiversity conservation.
The Doi Mae Salong watershed in the north-west of Thailand is the headwater of the Mae Chan River, a tributary of the Mekong River. As such, it is an extremely important landscape for the economy of the region.
This publication is intended to raise awareness amongst all stakeholders and galvanise wider action to boost drylands conservation and development. The book is designed to inform and remind us of the beauty of dryland biodiversity and its intrinsic and instrumental value.
Author(s):
Crawhall, Nigel
Davies, Jonathan
Dudley, Nigel
Gudka, Masumi
Henwood, William D.
MacKinnon, Kathy
Poulsen, Lene
Schulte-Herbrüggen, Björn
Smith, Jessica
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
UNEP-WCMC
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
This publication aims to provide the data, theory, and predictions for the potential long-term outcome of a biodiversity conservation programme at a mining site.
This publication provides guidance for terrestrial, marine, and freshwater protected area managers at both system and site levels on the restoration of natural and associated values of protected areas.
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
With the smaller number of marine protected areas (MPAs) compared with terrestrial protected areas, there is less experience and understanding of applying the categories to MPAs. Application of the categories to MPAs has often been inaccurate and inconsistent.
Author(s):
Day, Jon
Dudley, Nigel
Hockings, Marc
Holmes, G.
Laffoley, D.
Stolton, Sue
Wells, Sue
Organization(s):
IUCN
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
This booklet describes some of the plants present in and around Lake Tanganyika that can affect its environment and biodiversity. There are many such plants and there will be more, but this small volume is a starting handbook to invasive plant recognition, understanding and management.
Author(s):
Abonyo, Esther
Howard, Geoffrey W.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Lake Tanganyika Authority (LTA), BI
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
UNDP
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
This study, based on a colloquium, field assessments of development activities and technical analyses pertaining to barrier-built estuaries and lagoons, was inspired by the positive response to a preceding report captioned <a href=http
This report from the IUCN Shark Specialist Group includes the first compilation of conservation status assessments for the 282 chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, and chimaeras) recorded from North American, Central American, and Caribbean waters.
Author(s):
Kyne, Peter M.
Carlson, John K. (John Keith)
Ebert, David A.
Fordham, Sonja V.
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
Graham, Rachel T.
Kulka, David W.
Tewes, Emily E.
Harrison, Lucy R.
Dulvy, Nicholas K.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Shark Specialist Group
Charles Darwin University, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL), AU
This report focuses on the role and importance of the fishing and tourism industries in Vanuatus economy. The report begins by presenting an overview of the country, its economy, and the fishing and tourism industries.
This report presents an overview of the economy of Fiji with an emphasis on the fishing and tourism industries and their contributions to the broader economy.
This project aims to assess the socioeconomic value of freshwater species across the northern African region within the context of the threats to those species as previously determined and documented by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Author(s):
Darwall, W.R.T.
Juffe-Bignoli, Diego
Organization(s):
IUCN
Spain, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
The IUCN Species Survival Commission and IUCN Asia Regional Office commissioned this independent report to assess the state and condition of intertidal habitats along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF), in response to growing concerns expressed by IUCN members over observed declines in bio
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
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
Although there is a common agreement on the importance of conservation of Mediterranean submarine canyons amongst international organizations, their governance is complex: the canyons' extension covers waters and seabeds under various types of jurisdictions (territorial waters, Fisheries Pro
Author(s):
Würtz, Maurizio
Organization(s):
IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
UNEP, Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)
UNEP, Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP), Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA)
IUCN, Global Marine Programme
France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
France, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes
France, Agence des aires marines protégées
Fondation MAVA pour la nature
Total Foundation
Musée océanographique de Monaco, MC
Musée océanographique
Institut océanographique, Fondation Albert 1er, Prince de Monaco, MC
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 document presents detailed plans to conserve and restore populations of the Turks & Caicos Iguana within its historic range, and to perpetuate the iguana as a symbol of national pride and sound environmental management.
Author(s):
Gerber, Glenn
Pagni, Lee
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Iguana Specialist Group
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.
