THIS ISSUE OF PARKS deals with the Durban+5 Meeting, held in Cape Town in April 2008.
This meeting brought together the world’s foremost leaders in protected areas to discuss progress in implementing the key recommendations from the landmark Vth Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Parks Congress, held in Durban,…
The Global Forest Governance Project: Strengthening Voices for Better Choices aims to enable and actively implement forest governance arrangements that facilitate and promote sustainable and equitable forest conservation and management in three continents.
The 2009 Miller Award will recognize individuals that have innovated a new mechanism, policy, tool, or field practice that will promote the sustainability of Wilderness Areas. Wilderness Areas (both categories 1a and 1b), are defined in the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Category Guidelines, 2008.
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 L’organisation de la Troisième Semaine Nationale des Aires Protégées du Bénin, a pour but de rendre compte de manière démonstrative des opportunités et des acquis relatifs à la gestion des aires protégées et d'innover en se fondant sur l'expertise de différents acteurs.
Fiona Leverington, Marc Hockings, and Katia Lemos Costa
Fiona Leverington, Marc Hockings, Helena Pavese, Katia Lemos Costa, and Josee Courrau
In this supplementary report we present some principles and a checklist for choosing a methodology, and summarise a selection of methodologies that have been used in different regions of the world for…
Very little is known about oceans. That’s why very little - less than one percent - of the Earth’s oceans are protected, compared to 12 percent of the land surface. ‘Ocean in Google Earth’, launching today, lets virtual voyagers find out what marine species live where and discover marine…
Forests and conflict
Goma: If we don’t do anything and wait until the war is over, there won’t be any more forests and animals to conserve. Sudan: Refugees need many natural resources to help them reconstruct a life, albeit a temporary one, in their hosting area. Feature: High levels…Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ has just published the results from a "Cast your Vote Live" workshop held at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, October 2008, in which participants were asked several questions relating to REDD.
Islamabad, Pakistan, 14 January, 2009 (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) – Weather patterns in the future will be characterised by intensity and extremes, and the effects will be felt in a wide range of sectors from agriculture and water resource management to health and infrastructure. This was stated by experts…