Bolivia

IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands (IUCN NL) commissioned this assessment of wildlife poaching and trafficking in the Amazon in order to enhance understanding of the issue and inform potential future engagement. Bolivia and Suriname were selected as focal countries both because they were deemed to be representative of the wider region and in light of several years of incountry engagement on the part of IUCN NL.

Los pueblos indígenas de América Latina viven una compleja realidad jurídica. Este libro interesa a los indígenas porque la relación entre los Estados Nacionales y los pueblos indígenas es una tema no resuelto todavía. Este libro informa acerca de la realidad de las normas constitucionales sobre indígenas en América Latina, hace un balance de los mismas, y abre un debate sobre los problemas, bondades e incoherencias que ofrece la legislación de cada uno de los países.

This report, two years in the making, provides a comprehensive assessment of progress being made towards SFM in each ITTO producer member country and identifies the challenges remaining. Key findings include that the area deemed to be under sustainable management has grown by 50% over the past 5 years but that several countries continue to struggle to make the transition to sustainability in their tropical forests.

Tropical forests are threatened world-wide. Therefore, there is a search for ways to use the forests in a sustainable way, as this could assist in the conservation of these special ecosystems. Non-timber products collected from trees in tropical forests are often mentioned as examples of sustainable exploitation. Their collection causes far less disturbance to forest structure and functioning than the felling of trees for timber. This PhD thesis reports on ecological studies on tree species exploited for non-timber products.

There is a growing recognition that living well must go beyond economic and material plenty to encompass social and spiritual well-being. This book provides an introduction to the concept of human well-being as it relates to international rural development and conservation policy and practice. It demonstrates that well-being is understood and managed in a variety of ways in different cultures but also across the geographical scales at which decision-making processes take place, from the local, to regional, national and international scales.

The Parks in Peril program begin in 1990 to secure the survival of some of the most endangered and biologically important areas in Latin America and the Caribbean. This publication documents progress of the Parks in Peril program and provides detailed information about this group of protected areas. But the purpose of this book goes beyond enumerating the program's achievements; it also details the extraordinary complexity of the social, economic, and political forces affecting these protected areas.

This report provides an overview of the water-energy-food nexus in Latin American and the Caribbean, identifying the main challenges and opportunities for achieving water, energy and food security in the region.