Author: IUCN Species Survival Commission
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9782831707389
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These guidelines provide a logical framework for assessing species at sub-global levels; a means of sharing status information with neighboring countries; and a suggested format for documentation and publication of listings to improve compatibility with the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Author: Jean-Christophe Vié
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 2831710634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Wildlife in a Changing World" presents an analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Beginning with an explanation of the IUCN Red List as a key conservation tool, it goes on to discuss the state of the world s species and provides the latest information on the patterns of species facing extinction in some of the most important ecosystems in the world, highlighting the reasons behind their declining status. Areas of focus in the report include: freshwater biodiversity, the status of the world s marine species, species susceptibility to climate change impacts, the Mediterranean biodiversity hot spot, and broadening the coverage of biodiversity assessments."
Author: Ulf Gärdenfors
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9782831703350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented. This is taken further in the 1996 edition, which is also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN Red List category system.
Author: Nigel Dudley
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 2831710863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →IUCN's Protected Areas Management Categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives, are today accepted as the benchmark for defining, recording, and classifying protected areas. They are recognized by international bodies such as the United Nations as well as many national governments. As a result, they are increasingly being incorporated into government legislation. These guidelines provide as much clarity as possible regarding the meaning and application of the Categories. They describe the definition of the Categories and discuss application in particular biomes and management approaches.
Author: Reintroduction and invasive species specialist groups' taskforce on moving plants and animals for conservation purposes
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 2831716098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"As the world's biodiversity faces the incessant threats of habitat loss, invasive species and climate change, there is an increasing need to consider more direct conservation interventions. Humans have moved organisms between sites for their own purposes for millennia, and this has yielded benefits for human kind, but in some cases has led to disastrous impacts. In response to this complex aspect of conservation management, the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Reintroduction Specialist Group (RSG) and Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) have revised and published the IUCN 'Guidelines for Reintroductions and Other Conservation Translocations'"--Website.
Author: David Lindenmayer
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0643096604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest flowering plants and several of Australia's most high profile threatened and/or endangered species. It draws together major insights based on over 170 published scientific papers and books, offering a previously unrecognised set of perspectives of how forests function. The book combines key strands of research on wildfires, biodiversity conservation, logging, conservation management, climate change and basic forest ecology and management. It is divided into seven sections: introduction and background; forest cover and the composition of the forest; the structure of the forest; animal occurrence; disturbance regimes; forest management; and overview and future directions. Illustrated with more than 200 photographs and line drawings, Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is an essential reference for forest researchers, resource managers, conservation and wildlife biologists, ornithologists and mammalogists, and policy makers, as well as general readers with interests in wildlife and forests. Features: * The extent of synthesis at a range of key levels * The depth of new perspectives on forest processes and ecological patterns in one of the world's truly great forests - the montane ash forests * The breadth of past and very current research that is both pure and applied * The range of key topics and how they are inter-twined - wildfires, biodiversity conservation, logging, conservation management, climate change and basic forest ecology and management
Author: Oliver Springate-Baginski
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 2831711193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 934
ISBN-13: 9782831703282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book represents the most comprehensive compilation of data on threatened vascular plants ever published. It includes the names of some 33,000 plant species determined to be rare or threatened on a global scale. Conservation assessments were provided by the IUCN Species Survival Commission, the National Botanical Institute (South Africa), Environment Australia, and CSIRO, The Nature Conservancy, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, together with hundreds of botanic gardens and botanists throughout the world. The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and the New York Botanical Garden have made major in-kind contributions.The result of 20 years work by botanists and conservationists around the world, it is intended as a conservation tool, a provider of baseline information to measure conservation progress and as a primary source of data on plant species. Most importantly, however, it provides the building blocks on which to base a worldwide effort to conserve plant species.
Author: Richard Margoluis
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Measures of Success is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, managing, and measuring the impacts of community-oriented conservation and development projects.