Nature conservation

The Conservation Finance Guide presents a host of potential financing opportunities for nature conservation in general, with a special focus on protected area management. Many of these finance mechanisms rely on a "market-based" approach, valuing and marketing the goods and services that a protected area generates in support of local livelihoods and the broader economy.

The Present Workshop Report compiles and summaries the papers, the discussions and the recommendations from the Regional Public Hearing Workshop held in Dhaka, Bangladesh 12 February 2006 and from the smaller Follow-Up Workshop 13 February 2006. The Workshop Reports has been compiled by Orbicon and IUCN Bangladesh. The papers are put in the report in the sequence, which would be natural for the reader, and not always in the order they were presented at the workshop.

Rising poverty in Abbottabad along with rapid resource depletion, dwindling opportunities and over-grown population are compelling realities which demand a serious look at our approach to development. Abbottabad Integrated Development Vision (IDV) is an effort to focus on these issues. The Overview presents summary of the Abbottabad IDV

The implementation of Natura 2000 in the New EU Member States of Central Europe is a long process which began with the signing of Accession Treaties in the beginning of the 1990s and will continue for several years. Environmental NGOs have been lobbying for proper designation and implementation of Natura 2000 sites with the involvement of civil society. This publication, prepared by several experts from nature protection organisations, gives a picture of this process.

Este texto reúne las ponencias del Segundo Seminario Internacional Mujeres indígenas, territorialidad y biodiversidad. Uno de los ejes para el desarrollo de estos seminarios ha sido partir del supuesto de que en todas las culturas, las mujeres y los hombres establecen relaciones muy distintas, no sólo con el resto de la sociedad, sino también con sus territorios y recursos, o con su biodiversidad.