This Summary is an expanded version of the Executive Summary of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Good Practice Guidelines on Protected and Conserved Areas Series volume on Recognising territories and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) overlapped by protected areas.

This IUCN WCPA Technical Report results from the deliberations of an IUCN Task Force on Ecological Integrity, and aims to provide guidance on how to successfully incorporate ecological integrity into conservation policy and practice. Ecological integrity, together with several related concepts (e.g. ecosystem integrity, ecological condition, ecological degradation, resilience, ecosystem health), are grounded in a long history in the scientific literature.

First introduced as the IUCN Green List Standard for Protected and Conserved Areas, the IUCN Global Standard for effective and equitable protected and conserved areas version 2.0 (Global PCA Standard) provides this common framework.