IUCN Secretariat contributions to externally published literature

First edited in English, this is the first fully comprehensive study of the current state of the tropical moist forests of Africa. African moist forests, containing well over half the continent's biological diversity, are disappearing at a rate of about 2 per year, the fastest in the world. This work attempt to describe some of the political, social, cultural and economic reasons behind this alarming decline, proposes some solutions, and serves as a guide to all those whose interest in development is in harmony with the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources

Adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the Convention on biological diversity has now been ratified by over 160 countries and forms the backbone of many of the biodiversity activities that have taken place over the last five years. However, despite the unprecedented success of this major international convention, many questions still remain unanswered and many uncertainties prevail.