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Performance assessment of bycatch and discards governance by regional fisheries management organizations
    Gilman, Eric | Passfield, Kelvin | Nakamura, Katrina

Regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) play a critical role in global fisheries governance. A performance assessment of governance of bycatch, including discards, by 13 RFMOs, regional bodies with the competence to establish conservation and management measures for marine capture fisheries, was conducted. Findings enabled the identification of priority gaps and provide the first comprehensive baseline against which to track future progress in filling identified bycatch governance deficits.
El cambio climático en los Andes y la Amazonía : preguntas frecuentes
    Anchante, A. | Bussalleu, A. | Castaño, L. | Valdés-Velásquez, A.
Qué es el cambio climático, cómo se produce, cómo nos afecta. Qué es el conocimiento tradicional y por qué es importante. Qué son los ecosistemas andino y amazónico y por qué son importantes. Qué respuestas tenemos para enfrentar al cambio climático. Este documento ofrece de manera sencilla y breve las respuestas a estas y otras preguntas que constituyen conceptos claves del proyecto El clima cambia, cambia tú también, implementado por la Oficina Regional para América del Sur de la UICN y la Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental, gracias al apoyo de AECID.
Integrating business skills into ecotourism operations
   

This book is designed to help conservation organisations, community-based organisations and protected area managers plan and run effective ecotourism businesses. It was created as part of the Business Skills Transfer Programme for Ecotourism Development, a joint effort by IUCN and Kuoni Group aimed at supporting conservation organisations in managing ecotourism-related businesses through business skills, knowledge and experience sharing.
Our treasures at risk : World Heritage in times of climate change : contributions from youth messengers around the globe
    Amend, Thora | Heine, Britta | Jaeger, Tilman | Treu, Nina

This publication is dedicated to the topic of natural World Heritage. It explores how these outstanding sites can function as the flagships of protected areas and thereby support biodiversity conservation as well as human well-being. Statements of young people from around the world who participated in the International Youth Forum Go4BioDiv, held in parallel to the CBD-COP 10 in Nagoya, Japan, in October 2010, illustrate the threats to the treasures of our planet.
Lignes directrices pour la législation des aires protégées
    Lausche, Barbara J.

Ces lignes directrices ont pour but de mettre à jour et d’étendre les lignes directrices publiées en 1980 et de refléter les évolutions et les nouveaux enjeux intervenus depuis. Ces evolutions comprennent notamment des avancées importantes du droit international de l’environnement, ainsi qu’une meilleure connaissance scientifique du rôle des aires protégées en matière de conservation de la nature, ce qui comprend la conservation de la biodiversité, le maintien des fonctions des écosystèmes et la contribution au développement durable. À l’instar de la première version de 1980, ces nouvelles lignes directrices pour la législation relative aux aires protégées s’adressent en tout premier lieu aux rédacteurs des lois travaillant en étroite collaboration avec les autorités des aires protégées, ainsi qu’à d’autres acteurs du processus législatif. Elles représenteront aussi une ressource importante pour les organismes chargés de surveiller et de mettre en oeuvre les politiques et les programmes ayant des incidences sur la législation relative aux aires protégées ou réciproquement.
Protected landscapes and wild biodiversity
    Dudley, Nigel | Stolton, Sue

Protected Landscapes are a strong option for biodiversity conservation in human-influenced landscapes and seascapes. They often contain threatened or endemic species. There is now also a growing interest in the nature conservation benefits of protected landscapes. But do protected landscapes really protect wild biodiversity? The case studies collected here launch an investigation into wild biodiversity. They show that there is good if limited evidence that the approach can deliver effective biodiversity conservation.
Conservation and sustainable development : linking practice and policy in Eastern Africa
    Davies, Jonathan

This publication presents innovative ways that have been used to influence policy processes, from community pressure groups through elected and unelected leaders, to scientific discourse at the levels of directors of economic planning and conservation. The book analyzes experiences from a variety of conservation interventions by IUCN and other agencies, primarily in Eastern Africa, and challenges the notion of policymaking as a cyclical process. It elaborates on this theme and presents an array of examples of how communities have influenced government, through direct lobbying, influence of parliamentarians, wielding of science and research, and inter-community dialogue, networking and solidarity. The contributors present a framework for understanding and strategizing such work so that other institutions can identify where they can best add value.
Turks and Caicos iguana conservation and management plan, 2005-2009
    Gerber, Glenn | Pagni, Lee

This document presents detailed plans to conserve and restore populations of the Turks & Caicos Iguana within its historic range, and to perpetuate the iguana as a symbol of national pride and sound environmental management.
Small changes for big impacts : lessons for landscapes and livelihoods from the Wassa Amenfi West Landscape, Ghana
    Nyame, Samuel Kofi | Okai, Michael | Adeleke, Adewale | Fisher, R. J.

This paper describes Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy interventions in the Wassa Amenfi West Landscape in the western region of Ghana. The landscape extends over an area of about 120,000 ha. It is a mixed landscape with a variety of agricultural uses; the most important is cocoa farming. At the start of the LLS intervention, parts of the landscape, particularly forested areas were quite degraded, while levels of poverty among the communities that rely on natural resource exploitation were quite high. This situation was further complicated by poorly-defined and publicized land tenure arrangements, which provided disincentives for the local population to undertake action to protect and restore trees, especially cocoa bushes.
Extracting value from the forest : lessons for landscapes and livelihoods from the Acre landscape, Brazil
    Machado, Frederico | Gordon, James

This paper focuses on efforts to create value from non-timber forest products in the Acre region in the north-western part of the Amazon region in Brazil.
Moving closer to nature : lessons for landscapes and livelihoods from the Miyun landscape, China
    Emerton, L. (Lucy) | Jia, Li

The Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy Miyun project has generated important lessons about the process of working to improve landscapes and livelihoods in a watershed context. This paper documents and shares these lessons. In particular, it summarizes how the project was conceptualized and implemented, how and why this changed over time, and what its key impacts and achievements have been.
Rethinking economics, markets and incentives : using economic tools at the landscape level
    Emerton, L. (Lucy)

This paper documents insights and lessons about using markets and incentives to strengthen forest landscapes and livelihoods. It aims to interrogate just what a ‘landscape approach’ means in economic terms, to identify how markets can be used to generate incentives to share forest benefits more equitably and sustainably, and to highlight which kinds of approaches and ‘packages’ of interventions can assist in this.
Marine mammals and sea turtles of the Mediterranean and Black Seas
    Conigliaro, Michela | Otero, María del Mar

This booklet presents information on the conservation status of the marine mammals and sea turtles that inhabit the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Each species has previously been classified by IUCN at global level and here we present the first results of the regional assessment for those cetacean species resident in the Mediterranean Sea. It also focuses on the main threats that affect their survival and growth and makes recommendations to better preserve them. It presents brief details on resident species (those recorded all year round and breeding in the region), visitor species (scarcer but occurring regularly every year) and vagrant species (rare and unexpected ones that do not occur annually). This booklet also summarizes the current global status of visitor and vagrant cetaceans in the Mediterranean and the status of the endemic cetacean species in the Black Sea, the conservation status of the only Mediterranean seal species, and the latest information available on marine turtles.
Biodiversity of Tanguar Haor : a Ramsar site of Bangladesh : volume I : wildlife
    Chowdhury, Mohammad Shahad Mahabub | Sarowar Alam, A. B. M. | Sobhan, Istiak

Wetlands are amongst the Earth's most productive ecosystems. In Bangladesh these are of great importance because of the extensive food webs and rich biodiversity they support. In the past, wetlands have been undervalued. However, in recent times, awareness increases of the fact that natural wetlands provide many services toward mankind through various functions, products e.g., fish, fuelwood, timber, rice, and attributes i.e., biodiversity, aesthetic beauty, cultural heritage and archaeology.
Atlas du Parc National d'Al Hoceima = Atlas du Parc National d'Al Hoceima (Arabic version)
Water and the green economy : capacity development aspects
   

This publication brings together case studies, best practices and lessons learned on capacity development aspects of water and the green economy. Contained herein are mainly constributions from UN agencies working together in the inter-agency mechanism known as UN-Water, which look at the characteristics of a green economy and what it will take to accomplish the transition to one with respect to capacity development needs within the water supply and sanitation sector.
Construcción y gestión de hoteles respetuosos con la biodiversidad en el Caribe
Localización y diseño de hoteles y complejos turísticos : principios y estudios de caso para la conservación de la biodiversidad
   

Es importante integrar las consideraciones relativas a la biodiversidad en la localización y el diseño de hoteles y complejos turísticos para mantener a largo plazo no sólo la viabilidad y conservación de los ecosistemas sino también el éxito financiero de dichos hoteles y complejos. Aunque el presente documento se centra principalmente en las dos primeras etapas (planificación y construcción), la elección del lugar y el diseño también influyen sobre el impacto que tendrá el hotel en su fase de explotación: un hotel diseñado para utilizar los recursos de manera eficaz y fundirse con su entorno se gestionará de manera mucho más sostenible y será mucho más fácil restaurar el lugar tras el cierre del hotel.
Implantation et conception d'hôtels et de complexes hôteliers : principes et études de cas en matière de conservation de la biodiversité
   

Intégrer les questions de biodiversité dans les décisions relatives à l'implantation et à la conception d'hôtels et de complexes hôteliers est important non tant pour la conservation et le maintien de la viabilité des écosystèmes, que pour la réussite financière à long terme des hôtels et des complexes hôteliers. Bien que le présent document se concentre principalement sur les deux premières phases, la planification et la construction, les décisions relatives à l'implantation et à la conception pèsent également sur l'impact qu'un hôtel aura lors de son exploitation : l'exploitation d'un hôtel qui est conçu pour une utilisation efficace de ses ressources et qui se fond dans son environnement sera bien plus durable et il sera plus facile de restaurer le site lors de la fermeture.
Construction et exploitation d'hôtels respectueux de la biodiversité dans les Caraïbes
Building and operating biodiversity-friendly hotels
Strategic adaptive management guidelines for effective conservation of freshwater ecosystems in and around protected areas of the world
    Kingsford, Richard | Biggs, H. C.

This publication lays out the basic steps required by a catchment or protected area manager to begin the Strategic Adaptive Management (SAM) process. We provide the series of steps to help deal with the complex task facing the freshwater manager. The guide provides a framework for managing the maintenance of flow regimes and water quality to support healthy ecosystem services desired by stakeholders. The approach follows a structured path adapted for any reserve, whatever the configuration, threat or resources available. The lessons contained here should also help managers charged with the management of environmental flows, which are increasingly important for degraded river systems, but also managers of freeflowing rivers whose flow regimes remain largely intact.
Sites naturels sacrés : lignes directrices pour les gestionnaires d'aires protégées
   

Ces lignes directrices sont produites d'abord pour aider les gestionnaires d'aires protégées, particulièrement ceux dont les aires protégées, légalement établies, contiennent des sites sacrés à l'intérieur de leurs limites.
Directrices para la legislación relativa a áreas protegidas
    Lausche, Barbara J.

El proposito de las presentes directrices es actualizar las directrices originales publicadas en 1980, teniendo en cuenta la evolucion que ha tenido lugar desde entonces y las problematicas emergentes. La evolucion incluye avances importantes en materia de derecho ambiental internacional y un mejor conocimiento cientifico del papel que desempenan las areas protegidas en la conservacion medioambiental, (incluyendo acciones encaminadas a conservar la biodiversidad, mantener las funciones de los ecosistemas y apoyar el desarrollo sostenible). Al igual que las directrices originales (1980), las presentes se destinan principalmente a los redactors juridicos, que trabajaran en estrecha colaboracion con autoridades de areas protegidas, y a otras personas involucradas en el proceso juridico. Estas directrices tambien proveeran un valioso recurso para aquellos que trabajan en los organismos que supervisan e implementan otras politicas y programas que afectan o son a su vez afectados por la legislacion relativa a las areas protegidas. Resultaran asimismo utiles para aquellas personas involucradas o interesadas en la evolucion, revision o redaccion de legislacion relativa a las areas protegidas.
Blue carbon policy framework 2.0 : based on the discussion of the International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group
   

Development and implementation of blue carbon-based activities now requires strategic policy and incentive mechanisms to achieve coastal conservation, restoration and sustainable use, and provide disincentives to drain or damage coastal systems. A first effort to develop such a strategic program was set out in the first edition of the Blue Carbon Policy Framework. Based on additional information and current progress a revised Blue Carbon Policy Framework 2.0 has now been developed. It updates the previous version and adds a detailed coordinated program of policy objectives and activities. It outlines the activities needed for the integration of blue carbon into existing policy initiatives and the implementation of coastal management activities. The framework, described in this document, also details a timeline and identifies the possible stakeholders to further develop the activities.
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