Grey literature
OECMs Discussion Paper: Framing the Issues
The overall aim of this document is to help set out the issues, considerations and questions relevant to the Task Force’s mandate, namely: to develop guidance for IUCN members and CBD Parties on the definition of ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ (OECMs)
Grey literature | 2017
OECMs: Collation of Case Studies Submitted to the WCPA Task Force
This is a collation of case studies submitted to the IUCN-WCPA Task Force on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures for consideration as potential OECMs.
The case studies have neither been edited nor fact-checked and remain the intellectual property of the authors. Whether or…
Conservation Tool
IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology
The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is a comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features. This new typology helps identify the ecosystems that are most critical for…
Blog | 31 Aug, 2022
The UN's 5th session of the Intergovernmental Conference on conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction (also known as the High Seas Treaty) concluded in New York last week. While it did not result in the adoption of a treaty, the…
News | 26 Aug, 2022
The two latest knowledge products on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) present key findings and recommendations on how to enhance climate change adaptation and help reduce the risk of disasters in the Western Balkans. The NbS scoping studies for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia are now available …
Conservation Tool
The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems is a tool to assess the conservation status of ecosystems. It is based on scientific criteria for performing evidence-based analyses of the risk of ecosystem collapse, including changes in geographical distribution and the degradation of the key elements of…
Page | 14 Nov, 2022
Preventing the introduction of invasive alien species and managing their impacts is essential to halting biodiversity loss. This issue is also critical to human health, food security, livelihoods and economies.