Story | 20 Apr, 2008
A Sustainable Tuna Roundtable is being held today, hosted by IUCN and the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council. It will bring together the tuna fishing industry and the retail industry in an attempt to get both industries to agree on a single set of standards to assess the sustainability…
Press release | 13 Apr, 2008
As part of the ‘Initiative for World Heritage Forests in Central Africa' , UNESCO's World Heritage Centre organized an expert workshop on March 13-14 in Brazzaville (Congo) to identify the most outstanding protected areas in the Congo Basin and to study their complementarity with sites in the…
Story | 13 Apr, 2008
Training World Heritage site managers is one of the most valuable investments in heritage conservation, particularly as these sites confront the challenges of increasing flows of tourism and diminishing flows of international assistance for conservation and management. This is why UNESCO's World…
Press release | 12 Mar, 2008
Montenegro and IUCN unite efforts to protect nature
The creation of marine protected areas to safeguard biodiversity has been identified as a first step to meet international standards
Story | 06 Mar, 2008
Use of the IUCN Protected Areas Management Categories in the Mediterranean region
Arturo López Ornat, Anna Pons Reynés, Mika Noguera
Story | 05 Mar, 2008
Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas
Emerton, Lucy ; Bishop, Joshua ; Thomas, Lee
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas ; James Cook University, AU ; Rainforest CRC, AU
Story | 05 Mar, 2008
Evaluating Effectiveness . A framework for assessing management of Protected areas 2nd Edition
Hockings, Marc ; Stolton, Sue ; Leverington, Fiona ; Dudley, Nigel ; Courrau, José
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas ; James Cook University, AU ; Rainforest CRC, AU
Story | 05 Mar, 2008
Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series ; no.015