Rainforest CRC, AU

2007 Bakarr, Mohamed I. | Bennun, Leon A. | Brooks, Thomas M. | Clay, Rob P. | Darwall, W.R.T. | De Silva, Naamal | Edgar, Graham J. | Eken, Güven | Fishpool, Lincoln D. C. | Fonseca, Gustavo A. B. da | Foster, Matthew N. | Knox, David H. | Langhammer, Penny F. | Matiku, Paul | Radford, Elizabeth A. | Rodrigues, Ana S. L. | Salaman, Paul | Sechrest, Wes | Tordoff, Andrew W. |

Important Bird Areas and Important Plant Areas have already been identified in more than 170 countries. The Key Biodiversity Areas approach builds on the work done to date, in order to provide practical guidance to governments in identifying those sites which must be protected to ensure the future of both biodiversity and humanity.

2006 Courrau, José | Dudley, Nigel | Hockings, Marc | Leverington, Fiona | Stolton, Sue |

The Framework for management effectiveness developed by the IUCN World Commission for Protected Areas was published in the first version of this Best Practice Guideline. It is further explained and interpreted, although not substantially altered, in this version. A number of key guidelines for good practice in evaluation are presented from many practitioners around the world, and important needs and directions for the future are identified.

2006 Bishop, Joshua | Emerton, L. (Lucy) | Thomas, Lee |

It has become clear during recent global deliberations on biodiversity conservation that achieving Protected Area (PA) financial sustainability will require major changes in the way that PA funding is conceptualized, captured and used.