Protected areas

Extensively illustrated with maps, color photographs, and graphics, this state-of-the-art reference offers a comprehensive and authoritative status report on the world's 100,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas currently designated as protected areas. Now covering over 12 percent of the Earth's land surface, protected areas are the great strongholds of biodiversity and landscape conservation.

The main aim of this report is to assess progress towards a network of ecologically representative and effectively managed MPAs that meets international obligations for conservation of the Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, results of this survey were used to measure Mediterranean progress towards the CBD targets of establishing a coherent network of MPAs by 2012 and to protect at least 10% of the Mediterranean Sea by 2010.

L'évaluation de la Guinée a révélé que le pays recèle un patrimoine unique en terme de biodiversité en Afrique de l'Ouest. Le réseau des aires protégées de Guinée est globalement représentatif de la diversité des écosystèmes du pays, et notamment, il inclut montagnes, côtes et eaux douces continentales. La proportion d'aires protégées dans la zone marine et côtière pourrait cependant augmenter.

IUCN, WWF and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have developed this guidebook to assist marine protected area (MPA) managers in assessing the performance of their MPA. Based on this assessment, it shows how necessary changes can be made to improve management measures.