Biological diversity

In order for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) to be implemented, there is a need for financing. This financing hinges on the ability and ingenuity of national governments to design innovative mechanisms to make finances available. The aim of this toolkit is to provide biodiversity planners and decisions makers in Asia with a series of clear and practical methods, options and steps for developing financing strategies for their NBSAPs.

This CD provides maps of land cover, population density and biodiversity for 154 basins and sub-basins around the world. It lists indicators and variables for each of these basins and, where appropriate, provides links and references to relevant information. It further contains 20 global maps portraying relevant water resources issues. There are coloured buttons that function as a menu to select individual basins by continent.

En este documento se hace una síntesis de los compromisos adquiridos por los diversos acuerdos y convenios relacionados de alguna manera con el CDB. Además, se señela los punto de concordancia entre los diferentes convenios, y los temas vinculantes reconocidos hasta ahora que podrán ser contemplados en la formulación de la estrategia nacional de biodiversidad.

Esta compilación reune trabajos e investigaciones tendentes a apoyar en el proceso de desarrollo de la Estrategia Nacional y Plan de Acción sobre diversidad biológica peruana. Estos trabajos han sido desarrollados en el marco del proyecto "Fortalecimiento de las Capacidades Nacionales en América del Sur para la Conservación y Uso Sostenible de la Biodiversidad" liberado por la Oficina Regional de UICN.

The Himal region - the Hindukush-Karakorum-Himlayas (HKH)- is the world's largest mountain region extending 3,500km from Myanmar in the east to Afghanistan in the west, from the Tibetan plateau in the north to the Indo-Ganges basin in the south. To develop an IUCN Bangladesh mountain programme for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in this region, a two-day workshop was organized.

This comprehensive report outlines a new solution to the biodiversity extinction crisis, in response to its warnings that unless farmers and the world's poorest peoples can learn to coexist with wildlife, hundreds of species may be lost. The approach, called ecoagriculture, seeks to help farmers, most urgently those living in or near biodiversity hotspots, to grow more food while conserving habitats critical to wildlife.

Part I looks at community issues and Part II looks at the broad framework of policy and legislation intended to advance farmers' and breeders' rights at both national and international level. The summary provides recommendations, as well as action plans and strategies for the implementation of the international instruments.