This book is a compilation of some interesting stories of Tanguar Haor where the haor people tell their own stories of culture, tradition, joys, deprivation and struggle for survival.
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.
In Indonesia, Kutai National Park is home to what is likely to be East Kalimantan’s largest population of the Critically Endangered eastern subspecies of the Bornean Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus morio.
Author(s):
Lee, Alan Tristram Kenneth
Carr, Jamie Anthony
Ahmad, Busran
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Climate Change Specialist Group
Provides guidance for local stakeholder, managers and policy makers on appropriate management approaches for coral reefs that have been severely degraded through bleaching or other causes.
Author(s):
Westmacott, Susie
Teleki, Kristian
Wells, Sue
West, Jordan
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Eastern Africa
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
Recent global initiatives in ecosystem restoration offer an unprecedented opportunity to improve biodiversity conservation and human health and well-being. Ecosystems form a core component of biodiversity.
This Guide provides a short description of each of the activities within the overall Information Management System, and uses of the system for adaptive management within the TCZCDP. The Guide is divided into two parts.
Author(s):
Pabari, Mine
Samoilys, Melita
Organization(s):
IUCN, Marine and Coastal Areas Programme
IUCN, Marine Programme
IUCN, Regional Office for Eastern Africa
Tanga Coastal Zone Conservation and Development Programme, TZ
The Ecosystem Approach, defined as a strategy for the management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way, was adopted at the Second Conference of the Parties of the CBD as the primary framework for action under the Convention.
Author(s):
Smith, R. D. (Richard D.)
Maltby, Edward
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
IUCN, Ecosystem Management Programme
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
UNESCO
WWF International
Royal Holloway Institute for Environmental Research
A regional workshop was held to develop a shared understanding of the IUCN global Red List criteria, threat categories and the process of listing species according to the threat of extinction with an emphasis on lessons learned, key constraints and priority needs.
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Biodiversity Programme Asia
Swiss Development Cooperation, CH
Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development
Este documento presenta los diversos usos del agua desde diferentes fuentes de extracción y analiza los costos de los sistemas de producción y de las principales tecnologías para riego, entre otros aspectos, en el área de Ahuachapán Sur, en El Salvador.
The Útila spiny-tailed iguana, Ctenosaura bakeri (Stejneger, 1901), is a Critically Endangered iguana endemic to the island of Útila, in the Bay Islands archipelago of Honduras. The species occurs almost exclusively in the highly dynamic mangrove habitat on Útila (Gutsche, 2005), and is threaten
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Iguana Specialist Group
The purpose of the reports is to; a) improve the existing, and develop new income generating opportunities with local communities; b) improve existing, and develop ways to manage (use, protect, enhance) natural resources; c) facilitate, train and strengthen existing institutions; d) promote and u
Le but de cette étude est de sensibiliser les décideurs politiques et les acteurs de la conservation de la biodiversité sur les valeurs économiques de la vallée du Sourou en vue d'influencer les politiques d'aménagement et de conservation des écosystèmes naturels.
Author(s):
Somda, Jacques
Zonon, Abdoulaye
Ouadba, Jean Marie
Huberman, David
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Regional Protected Areas Programme, Western Africa
Le Parc National de l’Ichkeul se situe au Nord-Est de la Tunisie à 75 Km de Tunis. Il occupe 12.600 ha, couvrant successivement la montagne (1.363 ha), le lac Ichkeul (8.500 ha), et les marécages (2.737 ha).
Value is a practical guide that explains the most important steps and techniques for the valuation of ecosystem services, and the incorporation of its results in decision making.
Outlines the needs for, and benefits of, economic valuation techniques as applied to wetlands and development projects intended to alter them, and describes some of these techniques in detail.
Author(s):
Barbier, Edward B.
Acreman, Michael C.
Knowler, Duncan
Valdovinos, Juan Carlos
Organization(s):
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
Recopilación de casos de valoración económica de diferentes regiones de Iberoamérica, entre ellos España, Centroamérica, Suramérica y el Caribe. Se basa en dos grandes enfoques: la economía ambiental y ecológica.
This is the second volume in the new series on the Value of Protected Landscapes and Seascapes. Each volume in the series will explore the different values that this category provides through a set of case studies preceded by a synthesis section discussing the lessons to be learnt.
Author(s):
Mallarach, Josep-Maria
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development
