21,637 datasets found

The United Nations List of Protected Areas is an essential reference document for all who want to understand the progress made in responding to the challenges of biodiversity...

The IUCN Summit on Protected Area Management Categories was held in Almeria, Spain in May 2007. It aimed to test the opinions of key thinkers and policy makers regarding the...

This study reviews the situation regarding PA extent, legal status and management constraints in each country and territory of East Asia, using a regional review and gap...

The aim of the World Heritage Convention is to ensure the protection for all time of the world's natural and cultural heritage of Outstanding Universal Value. In 1994, to assist...

Covering 13.2 million square kilometres, or more than 8.8% of the earth's land area, protected areas are at the core of global efforts to conserve biological diversity (Green...

The Convention on Biological Diversity Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 was adopted at the 10th Conference of the Parties in Nagoya, Japan. The plan outlines 20 Aichi...

Information on elephant ranges and numbers is vital for their effective conservation and management. This is especially true in West Africa where elephant populations are small...

In recognition of the fact that orang-utans (Pongo spp.) are severely threatened, a meeting of orang-utan experts and conservationists, representatives of national and regional...

This dataset shows the global distribution of seagrasses, and is composed of two subsets of point and polygon occurrence data. The data were compiled by UN Environment Programme...

This dataset is the most comprehensive global dataset of warm-water coral reefs to date, acting as a foundation baseline map for future, more detailed, work. This dataset was...

The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) is a tool for assessing biodiversity risk, combining three global biodiversity datasets – the World Database on Protected...

Environmental degradation puts at risk the capacity of natural capital assets to continue to generate the ecosystem service benefits upon which businesses depend. A failure to...

In 2010, the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2010-2020 and its 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. It has since...

Voluntary performance standards offer a means of companies to adopt sustainable practices, conveying benefits to the environment, society and indeed to their own business, but...

​As a contribution to UN World Wildlife Day 2018 on the theme of ‘Big cats: predators under threat’, UNEP-WCMC has created an interactive dashboard that gives users the...

​Bi-monthly briefing notes on developments relevant to the implementation and enforcement of the EU Timber Regulation, compiled by UNEP-WCMC as a consultant of the European...

​Ocean+ Library connects to the latest data and online resources on ocean biodiversity. With technological advances, access to ocean data has increased dramatically, including...

Protected areas have undergone notable growth over the past decade. The expansion of protected area networks is driven by global efforts to conserve biodiversity, and efforts to...

This document is intended to contribute to the completion of Decisions 18.186-192 and support the AC working group on West African vultures in fulfilling its mandate, with a...

Guidance for CITES Parties on the terms related to artificial propagation of plants. This guidance, which addresses paragraph a) of Decision 18.178, aims to explain the...