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La stratégie de développement des capacités du programme BIOPAMA de l’Afrique centrale et occidentale vise à encourager les gestionnaires et administrateurs des aires protégées (AP) à utiliser le Système régional d’information, ou Observatoire régional sur la biodiversité et les aires protégées.

This publication provides for the first time factual information on the status of medicinal plants in Europe. This assessment includes 400 vascular plants from ninety families, and the good news is it shows that only 2.4% of medicinal plants are threatened. The collection of plants from the wild was identified as the prime threat, and impacts from agriculture were identified as another important threat. 

The European Red List is a review of the conservation status of European species according to IUCN regional Red Listing guidelines. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the regional level, so that appropriate conservation action can be taken to improve their status. This publication summarizes results for all described native European marine fishes.

<p>Evaluation diagnostique et prospective du cadre juridique de la gestion des ressources fauniques au Cameroun. L'ouvrage embrasse également les éléments de l'environnement politique, socio-économique et sociologique. Il présente des propositions concrètes à l'attention des décideurs.</p>

This document reviews the present state of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) within the EMPAFISH project. Using the Driver-Pressure-State-Impacts-Response (DPSIR) framework develops a conceptual model which determines the elements that affect MPAs. This evaluation framework developed has helped to select an appropriate suite of indicators to support an ecosystem approach, an evaluation of the MPAs functioning and policy considerations discussion.