Wildlife watching activities play a significant and growing part in the tourism industry, and create direct and indirect economic benefits for many countries and communities - especially amongst developing countries. This form of tourism can certainly make important contributions to conservation by raising awareness of the animals observed and their habitats, by creating revenues for conservation and by creating jobs for local communities.
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Call Number: [EL],VF 8500
ISBN/ISSN: 3-93-74-29-07-7
Protected areas for Pacific Island Communities - Managing natural resources now and for the future (Poster)
Online - Poster
Call Number: [EL]
Physical Description: 1p. : ill, (col.)
The Vatu-i-Ra Seascape is an area of unique ecological value located between Fiji’s two main islands incorporating the four provinces of Bua, Ra, Lomaiviti, and Tailevu, and their associated traditional fishing grounds and offshore channels.
Central Africa supports an incredible biodiversity, and its inland waters are no exception. The Congo River has the highest species diversity of any freshwater system in Africa, and is second in species richness globally, after the Amazon. This diversity provides benefits to humans both directly, such as through livelihoods from fisheries, and indirectly through services such as the purification of water for drinking.
The marine environment is a vital resource for Fiji's tourism, yet industry and community efforts to conserve and improve it have largely gone unrecognised, and are under-utilised in Fiji's tourism
Management of plan for the Ijuw/Anabar wetlands proposed conservation area (PCA) - Republic of Nauru
The management plan describes the priority strategies for the Ijuw/Anabar wetlands Proposed Conservation area (PCA) that will best maintain and improve the key conservation values in this area by reducing the impact of threats, including from climate change.
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Call Number: [EL],574.526 325 MAN
ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0682-7,978-982-04-0683-4
Physical Description: 13 p. 29 cm
Tuvalu signed the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992 and rarified it in 2002. With the increasing effects of climate change, there is growing recognition on the need for education on understanding the significance of the existing biodiversity in our ecosystem.
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Call Number: 371.302 8 BIO ,[EL]
ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0694-0,978-982-04-0695-7
Physical Description: 62 p. 29 cm
As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, most countries of the world have established protected areas. Virtually all such areas enjoy some form of legal protection. Growth in protected areas has continued to trend upward since the 1960s, when data showed only about 1.5 per cent of the earth’s surface covered. Today, more than 12 per cent of the earth’s surface is part of some type of formal protected area But scientific assessments indicate that biodiversity and ecosystem integrity are continuing to decline at an accelerating rate.
In 2018, the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a decision on protected areas and other
This year, nations of the world are expected to set ambitious new targets for protecting biodiversity. In much of the world, achieving spatial targets will require conservation of areas under private ownership. Throughout 2021 IUCN is hosting the Vital Sites webinar series which is rich in expert insights and discussions across all of the many areas of expertise in our global network. All seminars are recorded. In June the series explored the potential for privately protected areas (PPAs).
Call Number: [EL]
Physical Description: 11 p.
Participatory three dimensional model (P3DM) is a community engagement tool which integrates spatial data with local "traditional knowledge". This tool is widely used for spatial planning, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and many more.
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Call Number: 005.3 PAR [EL]
ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0678-0,978-982-04-0679-7
Physical Description: 31 p. 29 cm
To accommodate for nesting activity in the future, a human impact assessment of suitable beaches is advised to determine if human habitat alterations have influenced nest-site selection or micro-environments within nest chamber.
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Call Number: [EL],597.92 962 3 COO
ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0676-6,978-982-04-0677-3
Physical Description: 27 p. 29 cm
The Governance Assessment for Protected Areas and Conserved Areas (GAPA) methodology manual is the product of four years work
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Call Number: [EL]
ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-78431-733-1
Physical Description: 160 p
This Protected Areas Policy Implementation Plan (PAPIP) aims to guide organizations, agencies and resource-owning communities of Papua New Guinea (PNG) to collaborate and harmonize their sustainability efforts towards developing new protected areas (PA) in PNG
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ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0725-1,978-982-04-0726-8
Physical Description: 132 p
This is a short video on the Key Biodiversity Areas around the world and also in the Pacific.
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Physical Description: 2 minutes and 5 seconds
At the World Conservation Congress, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2004, the IUCN Membership requested a worldwide consultative process to agree a methodology to enable countries to identify Key Biodiversity Areas.
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Call Number: [EL]
ISBN/ISSN: 978-2-8317-1835-4
Physical Description: 46 p
This technical summary document reports on the findings from the first phase