The new strategy aims to ensure the long-term protection of bonobos across their range through the implementation of conservation actions designed to reduce, and if possible eliminate, the direct threats and contributing factors that are causing bonobo populations to decline.
Organization(s):
Institut congolais pour la conservation de la nature, CG
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
This publication aims to further raise awareness about the value of transboundary conservation, highlighting the many benefits transboundary cooperation generates, while not neglecting the challenges and problems parties encounter when they engage in transboundary initiatives.
Author(s):
Vasilijevic, Maja
Pezold, Tomasz
Organization(s):
IUCN
European Green Belt Initiative
Germany, Bundesamt für Naturschutz
Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Task Force on Transboundary Conservation
This publication provides a much needed and timely tool to assist in the collective effort to find new and better solutions to address the various threats to the marine biological diversity and productivity.
Les systèmes dunaires ont une distribution géographique mondiale. Cependant, ce livre est un recueil adapté aux dunes côtières de la Méditerranée occidentale.
Author(s):
Ley de la Vega, Carlos
Favennec, Jean
Gallego-Fernández, Juan
Pascual Vidal, César
Organization(s):
IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Spain, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
The intent of this Strategy is to set the national priority actions needed for the establishment of new marine protected areas in Lebanon and for the proper management of existing and new marine protected areas (MPAs), and to define the type of interventions needed at technical, research, regulat
Organization(s):
Fondation MAVA pour la nature
Lebanon, Ministry of Environment
Spain, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
Spain, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, Organismo Autónomo de Parques Nacionales
UNEP, Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)
UNEP, Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP), Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA)
This publication presents a legal and institutional gap analysis of the project area, covering five seamount regions, two of which are inside proposed Benthic Protected Areas (BPAs), Atlantis Bank and Coral Seamount, and three outside BPAs.
Author(s):
Lugten, Gail
Verlaan, Philomène
Warner, Robin
Organization(s):
Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project (ASCLME)
The individual and cumulative threats to and effects of the full range of human activities on marine ecosystems and biodiversity in general, and seamounts in particular, in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) are still largely unknown.
Seamounts are topographic rises of the seabed with a limited extent across the summit. There is evidence that seamounts form hotspots of biological activity in the oceans. Why seamounts host abundant populations of fish and other pelagic and aquatic predators is still uncertain.
Author(s):
Rogers, Alex
Organization(s):
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
UNDP
University of Oxford, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, UK
This publication synthesises a wide diversity of intofmration on economic pressures on the coastal sector, highlighting examples of impacts and providing a rationale for their responses, all from an economic perspective.
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.
Un tigre para los derechos is a story about rights. It is based on the experience of the Shuar Arutam Peoples, an Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples that live in the Amazon forest.
Author(s):
Kingman, Santiago
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for South America
Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development
Protected areas play a major role in reducing climate changing carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. Fifteen percent of the worlds terrestrial carbon stock - 312 gigatonnes - are stored in protected areas around the world.
Cette publication présente l'information sur l'état de conservation des mammifères marins et des tortues marines qui habitent la Méditerranée et la mer Noire.
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)
Wetlands in Danger provides the reader with a unique overview of the state of the world's wetlands. The extensive atlas section, with maps showing their conservation status, is the result of a major mapping collaboration with WCMC and IUCN.
La presente publicación está basada en el informe de consultoría Análisis de la situación actual del sector forestal peruano, elaborado por Araujo, J. y Capella, J. de la Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental a principios de 2011.
TRAFFIC initiated a series of surveys to gather basic data on the status, management, and trade of the American black bear. The purpose of the effort was to establish a baseline of information on the species and to examine trends over a period of years.
