Press release | 02 Dec, 2013
As delegates gather to discuss the plight of the African Elephant at a summit convened by the Government of Botswana and IUCN, new analyses released today find that if poaching rates are sustained at current levels, Africa is likely to lose a fifth of its elephants in the next 10 years.
Story | 05 Nov, 2013
Knowledge for Impact Café - Join us at the Global Landscapes Forum at UNFCCC COP
Story | 24 Sep, 2013
Visualizing Sustainable Landscapes
IUCN’s visualizing sustainable landscapes is a manual aimed to support the environmental community who is using visualization techniques to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas when dealing with conservation and development situations.…
Publication | 2013
This report brings together a broad range of new and existing information on 2,358 plant and animal species of the Albertine Rift (AR) region of East and Central Africa. A collaborative project assessed the climate change vulnerability of all known Albertine Rift mammals, birds, reptiles,…
Publication | 2010
Parks and reserves of Ghana : management effectiveness assessment of protected areas
Publication | 2010
The eastern chimpanzee is classified as endangered and of global conservation concern. This publication offers a 10-year plan which, if fully implemented, will go a long way to ensuring the maintenance of viable populations of the eastern chimpanzee across much of its existing range.…
Publication | 2004
This book describes the 12 years of Kibale and Semliki Conservation and Development Project, and how in the projects early days conservation and development activities tended to be separate and discrete activities. With lesson learning the project gradually became more integrated in terms of…
Publication | 2003
West African chimpanzees : status survey and conservation action plan
Wild chimpanzees are only found in tropical Africa, where their populations have declined by more than 66% in the last 30 years. This action plan focuses on one of the four chimpanzee subspecies, the western chimpanzee, which is one of the two subspecies most threatened with extinction. The aim…
Publication | 1996
Community-based conservation in Tanzania : proceedings of a workshop held in February 1994
The volume brings together contributions from experts from eastern and southern African countries. Papers cover a range of topics including the relevance of traditional practices, and of land, village and widlife laws and policies; case studies of different projects in Tanzania; and an overview…
Jointly published | 1995
FROGGIE : Forest Reserves of Ghana : Graphical Information Exhibitor : manual for the program
An interactive database and dynamic map of plants and forests in Ghana accompanies this report.