Results of a key workshop covering the Antarctic protected area system, design and management planning, tourism and protection of historic features, international legal and policy issues, and information and communication.
The Regional conference on biodiversity was unique in that it dealt with the issue of biodivestiy conservation in Asia and the Pacific from the social, political, legal, financial and technological aspects.
This directory provides details of measures taken to date to establish a system of protected areas in the region, which includes Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of Pakistan, India, Burma, China and the former USSR.
Author(s):
Green, Michael John Beverley
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
More than 1,000 species of molluscs are threatened by habitat destruction, over-collection, or predation by alien species. The nine papers and five abstracts in this volume summarise the current status of molluscan diversity.
Author(s):
Kay, E. Alison
Organization(s):
Chicago Zoological Society, US
DEJA, Inc.
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Mollusc Specialist Group
In recent years the trade in tortoises and freshwater turtles of Southeast Asia has escalated and changed dramatically to meet international demand. This report documents the change, examining the status, distribution and exploitation of 41 species in seven Southeast Asian countries.
Written by teams from the two countries, this report presents an integrated picture of the environmental features of agriculture and the accompanying threat to biodiversity, supported by data related to the entire territory of the former Czechoslovakia.
This report provides a basis for development and implementation of a global system of marine protected areas to protect and manage representative examples of the world's rich marine biodiversity.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Australia, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
The relationship between protected natural areas and local human populations is extemely complex. This challenging book with diverse contributions from experts covering 13 countries, places the issues in context.
Author(s):
Amend, Stephan
Amend, Thora
Organization(s):
IUCN
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
This report signals a new approach to ocean monitoring and management that lays a solid base using the principles of ecology and sustainable development while transcending traditional geopolitical and disciplinary divisions.
This report reviews current knowledge of global biodiversity, discusses priorities, assesses policies required, and suggests where efforts of the Convention and its financial mechanisms should be focused.
Author(s):
Caldecott, Julian Oliver
Groombridge, Brian
Jenkins, Martin
Johnson, Timothy H. (Timothy Hugh)
Organization(s):
IUCN
UNEP
United Kingdom, Overseas Development Administration
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.
Based on the premise that all research done in protected areas can enhance their management, these guidelines, which originated in a parks Congress workshop, provide a source of ready-to-adapt ideas suggesting ways that researchers and managers can work more effectively with each other and with t
Organization(s):
IUCN
George Wright Society, US
Science and Management of Protected Areas Association
Burkina Faso boasts both varied natural and artificially created wetlands, the latter resulting from some 1100 dams or embankments. These wetlands, however, have not been seen as distinct ecosystem units and responsibility for wetland issues has been fragmented.
