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The Urban Nature Indexes
   

The IUCN Urban Alliance, a broad coalition of IUCN constituents concerned with the urban dimensions of nature conservation, has unveiled a new knowledge product for measuring the ecological performance of cities: the IUCN Urban Nature Indexes (UNI). Comprising six themes with five indicator topics nested within each theme, the UNI is intended to help policymakers, stakeholders and local communities understand their impacts on nature, set science-based targets for improvement, and monitor progress using science-based measures. By enhancing environmental transparency and accountability, and by focusing on improvement rather than fixed targets, the UNI aims to catalyse local action for nature in all cities.
Informe bienal 2021-2022 Oficina de País en Guatemala
Biennial report 2021–2022 Guatemala Country Office
Restauração após um grande desastre
    May, Peter | Maroun, Christianne | Renshaw, Jonathan | Barbosa, Francisco | Brito, Maria Cecília | Sánchez, Luis Enrique | Kakabadse, Yolanda

Os Painéis Independentes de Assessoria Técnica e Científica (ISTAPs) são formados para ajudar a tratar de uma série de questões controversas de conservação e desenvolvimento que surgem com frequência e complexidade crescentes nos níveis nacional e global. Este relatório visa contribuir para a discussão sobre as formas de melhorar a eficácia dos ISTAPs; para tal, resume as lições aprendidas pelo Painel do Rio Doce, um ISTAP formado após o rompimento da barragem de rejeitos de ferro de Fundão em 2015, considerado um dos piores desastres ambientais da história do Brasil. As recomendações do Painel foram fundamentadas em três perspectivas complementares: visão de longo prazo, abordagem de paisagem e aplicação de Soluções Baseadas na Natureza (SbN).
Restoration following a major disaster
    May, Peter | Maroun, Christianne | Renshaw, Jonathan | Barbosa, Francisco | Brito, Maria Cecília | Sánchez, Luis Enrique | Kakabadse, Yolanda

Independent Scientific and Technical Advisory Panels (ISTAPs) have been established to help address a range of controversial conservation and development issues that have emerged with growing frequency and complexity at national and global levels. This report is intended to contribute to discussion of ways to improve the effectiveness of ISTAPs by outlining lessons learned by the Rio Doce Panel, an ISTAP set up in the wake of the 2015 Fundão iron tailings Dam collapse, widely considered one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters. The Panel’s recommendations were based on three complementary perspectives: a long-term vision, a landscape approach, and the application of Nature-based Solutions (NbS).
IUCN Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean : biennial report 2021-2022
Towards Nature-based Solutions at scale
   

The objective of this publication is to assess how well existing interventions in China that incorporate the use and management of ecosystems and ecosystem services align with best practice norms of Nature-based  Solutions (NbS). This is explored through ten case studies of established interventions and retroactively assessing how well they align with the Nature-based Solutions Global Standard. They are presented here under one of three broad categories: natural, agricultural or urban types of ecosystems.
Review of methods for assessing the social impacts of conservation
    Suich, Helen | Dawson, Neil

This report first reviews the available methods, tools and approaches that have been designed to assess and document the social impacts of conservation interventions, and second, offers guidance for practitioners on good practice for designing studies and facilitating processes for such assessments. The focus of this report is on tools that can be used for assessing ex post impacts – i.e. after commencement of intervention – whilst recognising that good project design incorporates social impact assessment activities from the outset. In this report, social impacts refers to the full range of economic, social, cultural, political, environmental and psychological impacts on people whose lives are connected in some way to the ecosystem, biodiversity or place in question, including but not confined to Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
A guide to investing in landscape restoration to sustain agrifood supply chains
    Raes, Leander | Buffle, Pauline | Williamson, Zoe | Benson, Scarlett | Ding, Helen | McBreen, James

This guide provides information and reasoning as to why it is important for agribusinesses to engage in nature-positive business practices, and why landscape restoration is an effective solution to issues related to degradation of landscapes and natural capital on which agribusinesses depend. The aim of this guide is not to provide a comprehensive methodological overview, but to outline key steps to consider for developing a business case for restoration in supply chains, and why this matters.
IUCN SSC guidelines on human-wildlife conflict and coexistence : first edition
   

As human-wildlife conflicts become more frequent, serious and widespread worldwide, they are notoriously challenging to resolve, and many efforts to address these conflicts struggle to make progress. These Guidelines provide an essential guide to understanding and resolving human-wildlife conflict. The Guidelines aim to provide foundations and principles for good practice, with clear, practical guidance on how best to tackle conflicts and enable coexistence with wildlife. They have been developed for use by conservation practitioners, community leaders, decision-makers, researchers, government officers and others. Focusing on approaches and tools for analysis and decision-making, they are not limited to any particular species or region of the world.
Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza : México, América Central y el Caribe Oficina Regional informe bienal 2021-2022
International Union for Conservation of Nature : West Asia Regional Office annual report 2022
Regional golden monkey (Cercopithecus mitis kandti) conservation action plan 2023–2028
    Tuyisingize, D. | Cipolletta, C. | Eckardt, W. | Caillaud, D. | Musana, A. | Muvunyi, R. | Turinawe, M. | Muhabwe, R. | Amanya, S. | Mburanumwe, I. | Katutu, J. | Shalukoma, C. | Ndagijimana, F. | Stoinski, Tara | Kaplin, B.A.

The golden monkey, Cercopithecus mitis kandti, an Endangered subspecies of blue monkey, is found in only two small populations in the central part of the Albertine Rift region in Central/East Africa. Since the 1950s, the habitat of golden monkeys has been lost or degraded in the Virunga massif (Democratic Republic of the Congo,  Rwanda, Uganda), including a reduction of approximately 50% in the Volcanoes National Park (VNP), the Rwandan part of the Virunga massif, and by a staggering 98% in the Gishwati forest located in Rwanda. As human disturbance continues within the golden monkey habitat, pressure on the remaining small and fragmented populations may result in the extinction of this subspecies. Consequently, a regional conservation action plan was developed in collaboration with conservationists, park managers, researchers, and local communities from the three countries where golden monkeys occur to address threats to the species.
Intégrer la biodiversité dans les secteurs économiques prioritaires
    Vergez, A.

Dans cette publication, nous faisons le point sur les connaissances et le savoir-faire générés par la première étape du projet, consistant à évaluer les principales menaces qui pèsent sur la biodiversité et à fournir des éléments de réponse aux questions spécifiques suivantes : comment les principales menaces pour la biodiversité ont-elles été identifiées et hiérarchisées, et comment les secteurs associés ont-ils été sélectionnés dans chaque pays ? Les différentes méthodes ont-elles coïncidé dans l’identification des principales menaces ? Quelles en sont les forces, limites et complémentarités respectives ? Quelles recommandations pouvons-nous formuler à l’adresse d’autres acteurs (gouvernements, ONG, donateurs tels que les banques multilatérales ou bilatérales de développement) désirant entamer des démarches similaires avec le secteur privé au niveau national ? Dans chaque pays de BIODEV2030, trois méthodes principales ont généralement été combinées pour identifier et hiérarchiser les principales menaces pour la biodiversité, puis sélectionner des (sous)-secteurs : revue de la littérature et des sources de données existantes, métrique STAR, interviews d’experts nationaux. Des résultats de ces évaluations et des processus de discussion qui ont suivi, nous tirons une liste de 12 recommendations clés.
Species Threat Abatement and Recovery in Cameroon and Kenya
Documento de lectura módulo 4 : Casos prácticos de adaptación basada en ecosistemas en Colombia (parte 2)
Documento de lectura módulo 3 : Casos prácticos de adaptación basada en ecosistemas en Colombia (parte 1)
Documento de lectura módulo 2 : Políticas, planificación y financimiento para la gestión de cambio climático, soluciones basadas en la naturaleza y adaptación basada en ecosistemas en Colombia
Documento de lectura módulo 1 : Introducción a las soluciones basadas en la naturaleza y adaptación basada en ecosistemas
Application of the Restoration Barometer in Costa Rica
    Nello, Tony | Rivera, P. | Putzeys, G.

Ecosystem restoration has been recognized as an effective means of mitigating climate change, reversing biodiversity and soil loss at the same time. The Restoration Barometer, originally created to allow countries to report their progress under the Bonn Challenge, provides a tool that adapts to the availability of information and diverse restoration approaches implemented around the world. This report presents Costa Rica’s progress in this area.
Aplicación del Barómetro de la Restauración en Costa Rica
    Nello, Tony | Rivera, P. | Putzeys, G.

La restauración de ecosistemas ha sido reconocida como un medio efectivo para mitigar al cambio climático, revertir la perdida de  biodiversidad y de suelo al mismo tiempo. El barómetro de la restauración, originalmente creado para permitir a los países reportar sus avances en el marco del Desafío de Bonn, provee una herramienta que se adapta a la disponibilidad de información y diversos enfoques  de restauración implementado a lo largo y ancho del mundo. El presente informe presenta los avances de Costa Rica en esta materia.
Analysis of knowledge on cultural landscapes at the Mediterranean level
   

Being defined as the “combined works of nature and of man”, cultural landscapes focus on sustainable land-use techniques, where the local population take into consideration the limits of the natural environment. They constitute a traditional form of land-use that are beneficial for the biological diversity and the cultural diversity for human well-being. They constitute an important landscape in the Mediterranean region, but have long been studied both by social  and natural scientists from different perspectives. This report tries to combine the existing literature dealing with the environmental and socio-cultural aspects of cultural landscapes, focusing on the Mediterranean region. 
Manual of invasive alien species in the Eastern Mediterranean
    Hüseyinoğlu, M. Fatih | Arda, Yaprak | Jiménez, Carlos

Marine invasive species can have a disastrous impact on biodiversity, ecosystems, fisheries, human health, tourism and coastal development, and they can be extremely difficult and costly to control. This manual is about the most common invasive alien species (IAS) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, mostly originating from the Red Sea, creating socioeconomic and ecological impacts on various levels. The manual highlights the current situation of IAS in the Eastern Mediterranean, and mainly focuses on the management measures of IAS, existing legislations and action plans, mitigation measures and implementation of the controlling procedures with different aspects and practices among various disciplines and across regions. The manual is designed for a varied audience from Marine Protected Area (MPA) managers to local authorities, from scientists to non-governmental or-ganisations that are involved in the in the management of IAS.
Interventions de restauration des paysages forestiers : Union de fleuve Mano
    McBreen, James | Jewell, Nicolas

Le présent ouvrage met l'accent sur la restauration des paysages forestiers et offre des orientations sur sa contribution potentielle à une gestion intégrée des ressources en eau et des ressources forestières qui puisse offrir des avantages tangibles aux populations, à la nature et au climat de l'Union de fleuve Mano.
Forest landscape restoration interventions : Mano River Union
    McBreen, James | Jewell, Nicolas

The present document emphasizes the forest landscape restoration approach and provides guidance on its potential to contribute to integrated water and forest resources management that provides tangible benefits for people, nature and climate in the Mano River Union.
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