Outlines approaches to assessment of the status and sustainability of national biodiversity. Methods are introduced for biodiversity survey, assessment of the status of species and habitats, and identification of local users of biological resources and the importance and impacts of such use.
Author(s):
Groombridge, Brian
Jenkins, Martin
Organization(s):
IUCN
UNEP
United Kingdom, Overseas Development Administration
Presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the 36 wild cats of the world. It includes the first published collection of detailed range maps and some of the first photographs of rare species in the wild.
Author(s):
Jackson, Peter
Nowell, Kristin
Organization(s):
Chicago Zoological Society, US
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Cat Specialist Group
Synthesis of the various components of international law that have an impact on forests and provides a policy framework for conservation and sustainable use, against which any future global forest regime shoud be measured.
Explores various approaches including those which are forest-related such as community forestry and joint forest management as well as those concerned with protected areas. Covers key issues of theory and implementation and methodologies for implementation.
The international trade in trochus, pearl oyster, bêche-de-mer and giant clam of the South Pacific is examined. Lack of effective measures to ensure sustainable harvest of these near-shore marine resources is documented and needed actions are recommended.
This very first directory of wetlands of one of the most arid zones on earth is intended to increase awareness among decision makers and planners of the consequences of wetland loss and degradation.
Author(s):
Scott, Derek A.
Organization(s):
IUCN
WWF International
International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau (IWRB)
BirdLife International
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
This series presents the results of an investigation by IUCNs Global Change Programme into the possible implications of predicted global change for natural systems and their management. This publication examines issues specific to marine ecosystems.
Author(s):
Pernetta, John
Leemans, Rik
Elder, Danny
Humphrey, Sarah
Organization(s):
IUCN, Marine and Coastal Areas Programme
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, NL
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
This series presents the results of an investigation by IUCNs Global Change Programme into the possible implications of predicted global change for natural systems and their management. This publication examines issues specific to terrestrial ecosystems.
Author(s):
Pernetta, John
Leemans, Rik
Elder, Danny
Humphrey, Sarah
Organization(s):
IUCN, Marine Conservation Programme
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, NL
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.
The rationale for this three-volume work covering nearly 250 major sites for conservation of plant diversity worldwide is concern about rapid global loss and degradation of natural ecosystems.
Author(s):
Davis, Stephen D.
Heywood, Vernon
Organization(s):
IUCN
European Communities, Commission
Smithsonian Institution, US
United Kingdom, Overseas Development Administration
This book summarizes the results of survey under-taken by IUCN and collaborators of the immediate and mid-term environmental damage arising from the Gulf War, in particular the massive oil spillage.
