Grey literature | 2018
The impact of IUCN resolutions on international conservation efforts : an overview
This paper briefly highlights some of the major impacts and influences that IUCN Resolutions have had on conservation. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to focus attention on some of the most significant issues that the IUCN Membership has addressed, working together with IUCN’s…
Publication | 2017
Guidelines for species conservation planning : version 1.0
The Guidelines aim to be equally relevant for any taxon on Earth. Recent experience has shown that no two planning situations are the same. So while the principles of planning may be constant, the purpose of the planning and the circumstances, the information available and its accuracy, and…
Publication | 2017
Freshwater Key Biodiversity Areas in the north-western Mediterranean sub-region
The Mediterranean Basin biodiversity hotspot is known to be one of the most biologically rich and complex regions on Earth. The north-western part of the hotspot (the area that covers all of the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, most of Italy and Malta) supports important river, lake, karst…
Grey literature | 2017
Multi-species action plan to conserve African-Eurasian vultures
Vultures are a characteristic, distinctive and spectacular component of the biodiversity of the environments they inhabit. They also provide critically important ecosystem services by cleaning up carcasses and other organic waste in the environment. The IUCN Red List status of African-Eurasian…
Grey literature | 2017
Adriatic marbled bush-cricket (Zeuneriana marmorata) : a national action plan for Slovenia 2016-2022
The Adriatic Marbled Bush-Cricket, Zeuneriana marmorata, is a rare bush-cricket species, which is found in a few wetlands in north-eastern Italy (Friuli Venezia Giulia) and Slovenia. For several decades, Z. marmorata was presumed to be extinct, until it was rediscovered. Considering the history…
Grey literature | 2017
Adriatic marbled bush-cricket (Zeuneriana marmorata) : a national action plan for Italy 2016-2022
The Adriatic Marbled Bush-Cricket, Zeuneriana marmorata, is a rare bush-cricket species, which is found in a few wetlands in north-eastern Italy (Friuli Venezia Giulia) and Slovenia. For several decades, Z. marmorata was presumed to be extinct, until it was rediscovered. Currently, it is…
Grey literature | 2017
Bonn Challenge Barometer of Progress
The Bonn Challenge, launched in September 2011 and extended by the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests, is an enormous opportunity to improve environmental and social outcomes globally, nationally and sub-nationally. To capture and provide evidence of advances, partnership opportunities, needs…
Jointly published | 2017
Primates in peril : the world's 25 most endangered primates, 2016-2018
Here we report on the ninth iteration of the biennial listing of a consensus of the 25 primate species considered to be among the most endangered worldwide and the most in need of conservation measures. The 2016–2018 list of the world’s 25 most endangered primates has five species from Africa,…
Grey literature | 2017
Youth voices : curriculum sourcebook
This Youth Voices Curriculum Sourcebook, developed as part of the IUCN World Conservation Congress Hawai'i 2016 to reach younger generations, aims to infuse nature into teaching and learning endeavors, to help (re)connect children and youth with nature, and to inspire their passion and action…