Protected areas

Ten years of the Asia Protected Areas Partnership

2025

This report tells the story of 10 years of the Asia Protected Areas Partnership (APAP) and the impact it has had. Understanding the impact of a wide-ranging partnership is never easy; outputs such as the 2nd Asia Parks Congress (APC2) reported here were only possible thanks to the efforts of a multitude of individuals and organisations. This report thus considers impacts based on APAP’s overarching objectives.

IUCN World Heritage Outlook 4

2025

The IUCN World Heritage Outlook 4 assesses 271 natural and mixed World Heritage sites. Complementing the official monitoring processes under the World Heritage Convention, the World Heritage Outlook offers the most in-depth analyses of threats facing natural World Heritage around the world and their protection and management status.

其他有效的区域保护措施指南

2025

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in 2022, provides a framework for the effective implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through four goals and 23 targets. Target 3 (known as the ‘30x30 target’) calls on Parties to conserve at least 30% of terrestrial, inland waters, and coastal and marine areas by 2030. These guidelines are designed to promote good practices relating to identifying, reporting, monitoring and strengthening OECMs.

Enhancing climate change mitigation in protected areas

2025 Smith, Risa B. | Kinahan, Anouska | Morelli, Toni Lyn | Samson, Clarissa | Orchard, S. | Crtichley, Megan | Lucas, Ben | Zhu, Zhilang | Pastick, Neal | Rahman, Aminur | Kupika, Olga Laiza | Day, Jon | Healy, Tim | Weiskopf, Sara | Arce-Plata, Maria Isabel | Burbano-Girón, Jaime | Devarajan, Kadambari | Dickey, Shannon | Fulton, Elizabeth A. | Gholizadeh, Hamed | Oke, Tobi A. | Pecl, Gretta | Ranco, Darren J. | Keely, Annika | Ankenman, Madeleine | Mommsen, Thomas P. |

This report covers both terrestrial and marine protected and conserved areas (PCAs). The audience is practitioners and policymakers who seek background information on the role of PCAs in climate change mitigation to:
- develop policies that enhance biodiversity and climate change simultaneously;
- quantify the importance of PCAs as a mechanism to reduce GHG emissions in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to the Paris Agreement;

Panduan upaya konservasi berbasis kawasan yang efektif lainnya (OECM)

2025

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in 2022, provides a framework for the effective implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through four goals and 23 targets. Target 3 (known as the ‘30x30 target’) calls on Parties to conserve at least 30% of terrestrial, inland waters, and coastal and marine areas by 2030. These guidelines are designed to promote good practices relating to identifying, reporting, monitoring and strengthening OECMs.

Guía sobre otras medidas efectivas de conservación basadas en áreas (OMEC)

2025

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in 2022, provides a framework for the effective implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through four goals and 23 targets. Target 3 (known as the ‘30x30 target’) calls on Parties to conserve at least 30% of terrestrial, inland waters, and coastal and marine areas by 2030. These guidelines are designed to promote good practices relating to identifying, reporting, monitoring and strengthening OECMs.

Estado das áreas protegidas e conservadas na África Oriental e Austral : segunda edição

2025

A presente segunda edição do Estado das áreas protegidas e conservadas na África Oriental e Austral toma como base a primeira edição, publicada em 2020, e apresenta dados actualizados sobre a gestão e a governação de áreas protegidas e conservadas na região, disponibilizando efectivamente uma informação regional actualizada sobre os progressos realizados no sentarget_ido da concretização da Meta 3 do Quadro Global de Biodiversidade de Kunming-Montreal (GBF).

État des aires protégées et de conservation d’Afrique orientale et australe : deuxième édition

2025

Cette deuxième édition de l’État des aires protégées et de conservation d’Afrique orientale et austral s’appuie sur la première édition publiée en 2020 et propose des mises à jour sur la gestion et la gouvernance des aires protégées et de conservation dans la région.

Diez años de la reserva de biosfera Oxapampa – Asháninka – Yánesha

2021

Relevancia cultural y espiritual de la naturaleza

2024 Verschuuren, Bas | Mallarach, Josep-Maria | Bernbaum, Edwin | Spoon, Jeremy | Brown, Steve | Borde, Radhika | Brown, Jessica | Calamia, Mark | Mitchell, Nora | Infield, Mark | Lee, Emma |

Estas directrices ofrecen un enfoque hacia la creación de un papel prominente y apropiado para la relevancia cultural y espiritual de la naturaleza dentro de la gobernanza y la gestión de las áreas protegidas y conservadas. Intentan superar algunas de las dificultades  causadas por los objetivos contradictorios a la hora de comprometerse con la cultura en el contexto de la conservación de la naturaleza.
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