Other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are sites outside protected?areas that deliver effective and long-term in situ conservation of biodiversity. Biodiversity?conservation may be the primary objective of the site, a secondary objective of a site that?is managed for other…
World Heritage forests are some of the most biodiversity-rich habitats on Earth and play a crucial role in climate regulation by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. However, these forests are under increasing anthropogenic pressures, including climate change. By combining remote…
Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits. This handbook presents the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology…
This report has been prepared as part of an?effort by 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 to define its position on Nature-based?Solutions (NbS) and plan for future work?to advance this concept and support effective?implementation of NbS to enhance ecosystem?services provision and address societal?challenges.?The report…
This Resource Manual has a specific purpose: helping to manage natural values within World Heritage properties. As such it is aimed at natural and mixed World Heritage properties as well as cultural landscapes (inscribed under cultural criteria). The intention is to help managers understand and…
Natural World Heritage sites are internationally recognised as having the highest global nature conservation priority. As of November 2017,?there are 241 natural and mixed (both cultural and natural) World Heritage?sites, representing about 0.1% of the total number of protected areas globally,…
Natural World Heritage sites are internationally recognised as having the highest global nature conservation priority. As of November 2017,?there are 241 natural and mixed (both cultural and natural) World Heritage?sites, representing about 0.1% of the total number of protected areas globally,…
The manual provides guidance for States Parties and all those involved in the care of World Heritage cultural properties on how to comply with the requirements of the Convention. It also aims to help States Parties to ensure that heritage has a dynamic role in society and harnesses, but also…
The objectives of this manual are: to help the managers and management authorities of cultural and natural World Heritage properties to reduce the risks to these properties from natural and humanmade disasters; to illustrate the main principles of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) for heritage and…
The main goal of this Explanatory Guide is to facilitate the understanding of the legal obligations of the Parties under the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological…