Submitted by
mitali.sharma
on Thu, 04/17/2025 - 11:19
General Information
Period covered
IUCN Constituent
IUCN WCPA Biodiversity and Protected Areas : Network 2021-2025
IUCN Constituent type
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas 2021-2025
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
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Scientific/technical activities
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WPCA's Freshwater Specialist Group published a WCPA Technical Report "Designing and managing protected and conserved areas to support inland water ecosystems and biodiversity", which includes points on free-flowing rivers.
https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/51774 Additionally, WCPA's Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) Task Force published "IUCN WCPA Technical Note No.19 Renewable energy and implications for protected and conserved area downgrading, downsizing, degazettement, and delisting: guidance to address climate change and biodiversity loss synergistically", which includes a discussion on the impacts of hydropower and restoring free-flowing rivers. https://iucn.org/resources/other-brief/iucn-wcpa-technical-note-no19-renewable-energy-and-implications-protected-and |
On-going
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Report status
Published
Constituent type
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas 2021-2025