Protected areas

The purpose of these guidelines is to update and expand the original guidelines on protected areas legislation published in 1980 and to reflect new developments and emerging issues. These developments include significant advances in international environmental law, and an improved scientific understanding of the role of protected areas in nature conservation, including conserving biodiversity, maintaining ecosystem functions and supporting sustainable development.

Un plan de gestion est un document qui établit l'approche de la gestion et ses objectifs et qui comprend aussi un cadre pour prendre des décisions, à appliquer dans l'aire protégée pendant une période donnée. Il est désormais critique pour la planification des aires protégées de consulter le plus grand nombre possible de parties prenantes et de développer des objectifs que peuvent accepter et adopter tous ceux qui ont un intérêt dans l'utilisation et la survie de l'aire concernée.

The Global Study into management effectiveness evaluation was conducted between late 2005 and 2010. In cooperation with many people across the world, we aimed to strengthen the management of protected areas by compiling the existing work on management effectiveness evaluation, reviewing methodologies, finding patterns and common themes in evaluation results, and investigating the most important factors leading to effective management.

Le présent document a pour objectif de rendre compte des formations, études de cas, discussions et échanges en tous genres qui, pendant quatre jours, ont largement nourri la réflexion pour une meilleure implication des ONG ouest-africains dans la conservation en général et la gestion des aires protégées en particulier. Il est organisé autour de six thématiques constituant chacune un chapitre.

Qualified, competent and committed staff are central to the success of protected areas. Training of protected area (PA) staff is more and more recognized as a vital component of efficient protected area management. As well as being an essential tool at local, regional and national levels, capacity building for PAs now has a strong international context and is being embedded into major global conventions and PA-related decisions.

This Resource Manual represents IUCN’s advice to States Parties which are considering nominating a natural or mixed property for World Heritage status. Preparing a World Heritage nomination is not a simple task and interested parties are encouraged to carefully analyse the situation, taking the time needed to ensure a sound process that is closely linked to ensuring effective management of the property and cooperation with communities and stakeholders.

O Caderno dos Conhecimentos, preparado no quadro do Programa Regional de Educação Ambiental do PRCM, descreve o ambiente costeiro e marinho dos países implicados (Mauritânia, Cabo Verde, Senegal, Gâmbia, Guiné-Bissau, Guiné-Conacri, Serra Leoa). Destina-se, antes de mais, aos professores e formadores, permitindo-lhes transmitir aos jovens o grande valor do seu património comum e a necessidade da sua conservação para as gerações futuras.

This knowledge handbook, produced in the framework of the Regional Environmental Education Programme of PRCM, describes the coastal and marine environment of the countries involved in this programme (Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone). It is mainly directed to teachers so as to help them transmit to the youth the great value of their common heritage and the necessity to conserve it for future generations.