21,637 datasets found

Africa is the world’s second-largest continent, covering about a fifth of the planet’s land area, and home to a wide variety of environments from coral reefs to rainforests....

1st Edition The Global Study into management effectiveness evaluation was conducted between late 2005 and 2007. In cooperation with many people across the world, we aimed to...

Coverage of Protected Areas has been selected as one of the indicators suitable for assessing progress towards and communicating the 2010 Target at the global level. This...

Protected areas have long been recognized as a robust system for biodiversity conservation, but they are under heavy and increasing pressures from human activities, including...

National reports continue to provide the best means available to assess the status of implementation of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), and a key tool to guide...

This study reviews the biogeographic and biodiversity coverage of the current World Heritage network and identifies broad gaps. It also identifies priority sites for...

A European Study on protected area management effectiveness assessments was carried out between May 2009 and March 2010, to provide an overview of existing studies, evaluation...

This brief produced by UNEP-WCMC and SNV REDD+ addresses the following key messages regarding participatory biodiversity monitoring for REDD+: Monitoring biodiversity impacts of...

Over the coming decades, society will have to balance competing needs for land to feed the growing human population, provide resources and energy to satisfy the ever-...

One of the desired outcomes of protected areas should be to improve or at minimum ‘do no harm’ to the livelihoods of local people living near the protected area (IUCN World...

This guide has been developed for the protected area managers, staff and relevant community associations in Niumi National Park, the Gambia, and Sangomar Marine Protected Area,...

This brief outlines the national ecosystem assessment process, and how assessments can be integrated into national decision-making. This project was undertaken via funding by...

Resilience and Adaptation Planning for Communities in Protected Areas provides the practical tools needed to effectively engage with communities living in, and around, PAs...

The 2003 United Nations List of Protected Areas presents data on 102,102 protected areas covering 18.8 million km". Within this total figure, there are 69,066 protected areas...

The target adopted by world leaders of significantly reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010 was not met but this stimulated a new suite of biodiversity targets for 2020...

CITES decisions that accepted an obligation to take into account the impacts of CITES listings on the livelihoods of the poor, have some affinities with the 'Do no harm'...

The ocean contains some of the most productive ecosystems, vast natural resources, and unique habitats on Earth. The ocean also plays a vital role in regulating the planet’s...

UNEP-WCMC wrote several briefing notes for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, covering different topics: Synergies among multilateral...

Coral reefs are an integral part of the Caribbean fabric, threading along thousands of kilometres of coastline. Unfortunately, these valuable ecosystems are degrading rapidly...

In the last 50 years, Southeast Asia has undergone rapid industrialization and population growth. As human populations have grown, so have pressures on the natural systems that...