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IUCN Publication

Culture for nature : the CSVPA newsletter

Organization(s):

  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas Specialist Group
Non IUCN Publication

A field guide : key species in Lebanon & Jordan

This field guide aims at giving comprehensive information about the key species endangered, vulnerable or critically endangered in Lebanese and Jordanian protected areas of the MEET project.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

Enhancing food security through forest landscape restoration

The case studies from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, the Philippines and Viet Nam highlight how forest landscape restoration (FLR) interventions enhance food security.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

Primates in peril : the world's 25 most endangered primates, 2014-2016

Organization(s):

  • Bristol Zoological Society (BZS), UK
  • Conservation International
  • International Primatological Society
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Grey Literature

Guia sobre a metodologia de avaliação de oportunidades de restauração (ROAM)

Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits.

Author(s):

  • Laestadius, Lars
  • Maginnis, Stewart
  • Rietbergen-McCracken, Jennifer
  • Saint-Laurent, Carole
  • Shaw, Daniel
  • Verdone, Michael

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
  • The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)
  • World Resources Institute (WRI)
Publication Year: 
2014
IUCN Grey Literature

Guide de la méthodologie d'évaluation des opportunités de restauration des paysages forestiers (MEOR)

Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits.

Author(s):

  • Laestadius, Lars
  • Maginnis, Stewart
  • Rietbergen-McCracken, Jennifer
  • Saint-Laurent, Carole
  • Shaw, Daniel
  • Verdone, Michael

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
  • The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)
  • World Resources Institute (WRI)
Publication Year: 
2014
IUCN Grey Literature

Guía sobre la metodología de evaluación de oportunidades de restauración (ROAM)

Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits.

Author(s):

  • Laestadius, Lars
  • Maginnis, Stewart
  • Rietbergen-McCracken, Jennifer
  • Saint-Laurent, Carole
  • Shaw, Daniel
  • Verdone, Michael

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
  • The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)
  • World Resources Institute (WRI)
Publication Year: 
2014
IUCN Publication

African solutions in a rapidly changing world = Solutions africaines dans un monde qui change rapidement

In this publication, several case studies from the African continent illustrate the "nature-based solutions" approach and offer hope that effective solutions to the climate change dilemma can be addressed through local responses that also achieve mutual benefits for biodiversity conservation and

Organization(s):

  • Agence Française de Développement, FR
  • IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
  • IUCN, Global Protected Areas Programme
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

A toolkit for mainstreaming biodiversity in Jordan (Arabic version)

Author(s):

  • El Shaer, Hany
  • Haddad, Fidaa F.
  • Salem, Boshra

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

A toolkit for mainstreaming biodiversity in Jordan

Author(s):

  • El Shaer, Hany
  • Haddad, Fidaa F.
  • Salem, Boshra

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Grey Literature

The Sekong River in Viet Nam, Lao PDR and Cambodia

The purpose of this paper is to provide a range of information which may be useful during dialogue to establish appropriate river flow regimes in the Sekong River in Viet Nam, Lao PDR and Cambodia when large hydropower projects are constructed and operated.

Author(s):

  • Meynell, Peter-John

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
Publication Year: 
2014
IUCN Publication

Migration, spawning patterns and conservation of hilsa shad in Bangladesh and India

This publication is an output of joint research conducted on the importance of migratory and spawning patterns for the conservation of the hilsa.

Author(s):

  • Ahsan, Dewan Ali
  • Bhattacharya, Subhra Bikash
  • Bhaumik, Utpal
  • Hazra, Sugata
  • Niamul Naser, M.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN Bangladesh
Publication Year: 
2014
IUCN Publication

Analyse de situation de l'UICN concernant la faune terrestre et d'eau douce en Afrique centrale et de l'Ouest

La présente analyse de situation a été réalisée pour éclairer les réponses à plusieurs résolutions formulées lors du 5 Congrès mondial de la nature en 2012, concernant l'état critique des grands vertébrés d'Afrique centrale et de l'Ouest.

Author(s):

  • Aalen, Frederick H. A.
  • Grainger, Matthew J.
  • Hibert, Fabrice
  • Hoffmann, Michael
  • Mallon, David P.
  • McGowan, Philip J. K.
  • Vliet, Nathalie van

Organization(s):

  • Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
  • IUCN Global Species Programme
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
  • SOS - Save Our Species
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

Dándole una voz a la gente y la naturaleza : informe 2014 de la Oficina Regional para México, América Central y el Caribe (ORMACC) de la UICN

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

Mediterranean quarry rehabilitation manual

Building on the experience of Holcim Lebanon in rehabilitating one of its degraded quarries after excavation activities, this report will provide guidelines for rehabilitation practices in Lebanon and the Mediterranean.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Association for Forests, Developement and Conservation (AFDC)
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), FR
  • Holcim
  • IUCN, Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Grey Literature

A rapid assessment of live coral mining and lime production in Mtwara

The extraction of live coral to burn and produce "white lime" or "chokaa" has a long history in Tanzania, yet in many areas it is believed that this practice has reached unsustainable levels and is considered to be one of the main contributors to reef and forest degradation along the coast.

Author(s):

  • Guard, M.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Global Environment Facility (GEF)
  • IUCN, Regional Office for Eastern Africa
  • UNDP
Publication Year: 
2004
IUCN Publication

Asia review 2013-14

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

Guía de gestión ambiental para el manejo del paisaje en Costa Rica

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
Publication Year: 
2011
IUCN Grey Literature

The significance of the Beung Kiat Ngong Ramsar site (Champasak province, Lao PDR) and its surroundings for biodiversity conservation

Author(s):

  • Duckworth, William
  • Timmins, Robert J.

Organization(s):

  • Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
  • Finland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • IUCN Laos
  • Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center (OECC), JP
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Grey Literature

A review of Thailand's proposed Mae Wong Dam

This report was produced by the IUCN Secretariat in response to a direct and specific request from the IUCN Thailand National Committee. It is intended to provide an independent scientific assessment of possible impacts of the proposed Mae Wong Dam and associated mitigation measures.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

IUCN in Oceania : annual report 2014

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Oceania Regional Office (ORO)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

Situation analysis on inland navigation

Author(s):

  • Hussain, Syed Monowar
  • Mishra, Dinesh Kumar

Organization(s):

  • IUCN India
  • IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
  • IUCN Bangladesh
Publication Year: 
2012
IUCN Publication

Conservation de la biodiversité des zones arides

L’ouvrage Conservation de biodiversité des zones arides vise à sensibiliser toutes les parties prenantes et à galvaniser une action plus large afin de booster la conservation et le développement des zones arides.

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
Publication Year: 
2017
IUCN Publication

Conservación de la biodiversidad de las tierras áridas

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
Publication Year: 
2012
IUCN Publication

Stratégie et plan d'action pour la conservation de la grande outarde (Otis tarda) au Maroc : 2016-2025

La population marocaine de grandes outardes (Otis tarda), une espèce menacées de l'UICN™, est en faible nombre et en déclin, et elle survit principalement dans deux sites de reproduction (leks) où l'on dénombre entre 40 et 50 oiseaux.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Bustard Specialist Group
  • Morocco, Haut Commissariat aux Eaux et Forêts et à la Lutte contre le Désertification
  • IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Publication Year: 
2016
IUCN Publication

Conservation strategy and action plan for the great bustard (Otis tarda) in Morocco : 2016-2025

The Moroccan population of the Great Bustard Otis tarda, a Vulnerable species according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, is small and declining, surviving mainly in two breeding areas (leks) and numbering some 40 to 50 birds.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Bustard Specialist Group
  • Morocco, Haut Commissariat aux Eaux et Forêts et à la Lutte contre le Désertification
  • IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Publication Year: 
2016
Non IUCN Publication

Protection and management of the Central American Dome

The Central American Dome is a distinct and highly productive biological habitat in the northeastern tropical Pacific, created through an interaction between wind and currents.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • MarViva Foundation
  • Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
Publication Year: 
2013
IUCN Grey Literature

Biodiversity resource inventory : ecosystem assessment of Bhadaure Tamagi VDC, Kaski

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.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Nepal
  • UNDP
  • UNEP
Publication Year: 
2013
IUCN Publication

El principio de no regresión ambiental en Iberoamérica

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

Rivers for life

This publication includes papers that were part of thirty-five oral and nine poster presentations on various themes presented by eminent researchers/ practitioners at the international symposium on “River Biodiversity: Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River System” facilitated and supported by IUCN. 

Author(s):

  • Ahmed, Benazir
  • Sinha, R. K. (Ravindra Kumar)

Organization(s):

  • IUCN India
  • IUCN Bangladesh
Publication Year: 
2014
IUCN Publication

The value of investing in locally-controlled forestry

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
Publication Year: 
2011
IUCN Grey Literature

Guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests

The objective of these guidelines is to help foresters and forest planners improve the contribution of tropical production forests to global efforts to conserve biodiversity.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
Publication Year: 
2007
IUCN Publication

Regional action plan for the conservation of chimpanzees in West Africa

The following action plan details a strategy for protecting 80% of the surviving chimpanzees in West Africa at a cost of US$9 million.

Author(s):

  • Boesch, Christophe
  • Kormos, Rebecca

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
Publication Year: 
2003
IUCN Publication

Guide pour la gestion intégrée des ressources naturelles du littoral à l'usage des élus des pays côtiers d'Afrique de l'Ouest

Author(s):

  • Noray, Marie-Laure de
  • Sy, Omar Saïp

Organization(s):

  • Fondation MAVA pour la nature
  • IUCN Senegal
Publication Year: 
2015
Non IUCN Publication

The water-energy-food nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean

This report provides an overview of the water-energy-food nexus in Latin American and the Caribbean, identifying the main challenges and opportunities for achieving water, energy and food security in the region. 

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  • Global Canopy Programme
  • International Water Association (IWA)
  • IUCN Global Water Programme
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Grey Literature

Ricord's iguana. Cyclura ricordii. Species recovery plan, 2002-2007

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Iguana Specialist Group
Publication Year: 
2003
IUCN Publication

Protected areas management strategy for Bahamian terrestrial vertebrates : iguanas and seabirds

Organization(s):

  • Bahamas Department of Agriculture, Conservation Unit
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Iguana Specialist Group
Publication Year: 
2001
IUCN Grey Literature

Anegada iguana, Cyclura pinguis. Species recovery plan, 2006-2010

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Iguana Specialist Group
Publication Year: 
2006
IUCN Grey Literature

Marine protection in the Southern Ocean

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Publication Year: 
1997
Non IUCN Publication

Putting natural solutions to work : mainstreaming protected areas in climate change responses

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Germany, Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)
  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Publication Year: 
2012
IUCN Publication

The Asian elephants and associated human-elephant conflict in south-eastern Bangladesh

Author(s):

  • Motaleb, Mohammad Abdul
  • Rahman, Sayad Mahmudur
  • Sobhan, Istiak

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Bangladesh
Publication Year: 
2011
IUCN Publication

Humedales de Bocas del Toro

Author(s):

  • Castillo Osorio, Eysel

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Central America
Publication Year: 
1991
Non IUCN Publication

Executive summary : focusing action, picking up the pace for ocean conservation

Author(s):

  • Bernal, Patricio

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • France, Agence des aires marines protégées
  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Publication Year: 
2014
IUCN Grey Literature

Mangroves for the future : promoting investment in coastal ecosystem conservation

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN, Asia Regional Office (ARO)
  • Mangroves for the Future
  • UNDP
Publication Year: 
2006
Non IUCN Publication

From recognition to derecognition in Senegal's forests

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):

  • Faye, Papa

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
  • Sweden, SIDA
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
Publication Year: 
2015
Non IUCN Publication

REDD+ institutional choices and the implications for local democracy in the Kasigau Corridor, Kenya

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):

  • Wangui Chomba, Susan

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
  • Sweden, SIDA
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
Publication Year: 
2015
Non IUCN Publication

The illusion of democratic representation in the REDD readiness consultation process in Ghana

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):

  • Marfo, Emmanuel

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
  • Sweden, SIDA
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
Publication Year: 
2015
Non IUCN Publication

At the expense of democracy

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):

  • Namara, Agrippinah

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
  • Sweden, SIDA
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
Publication Year: 
2015
IUCN Publication

The re-emergence of customary authority and its relation with local democratic government

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):

  • Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
  • Sweden, SIDA
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
Publication Year: 
2012
IUCN Publication

Natural infrastructure in the nexus

This paper discusses how natural infrastructure, the networks of land and water that provide services to people, can help decision makers and infrastrucuture managers address interconnected challenges facing water, energy and food systems, often referred to as the "nexus." The paper examines reas

Author(s):

  • DiFrancesco, Kara
  • Gartner, Todd
  • Ozment, Suzanne

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • International Water Association (IWA)
  • World Resources Institute (WRI)
Publication Year: 
2015

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