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A protected area is a clearly defined geographical space recognised, dedicated and managed through legal of other effective means to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 6 p.

The importance of measuring economic impacts of tourism in protected areas. The value of protected areas is often hidden from direct view. Once managers understand the number of behaviour of visitors they host, and the revenues and costs they generate, informed decisions on management plans and tourism strategies can be made. Call Number: [EL]ISBN/ISSN: 978-9231-004650Physical Description: 113 p.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been the major source of financial and technical support for
countries seeking to conserve their biodiversity and use their biological resources in a sustain- able
manner. Since 1991, the GEF has, in collaboration with its Implementing Agencies—notably the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank—provided $4.8 billion in grants and
mobilized an additional $17.9 billion in cofinancing from public, multilateral, and private sources to 1,167

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 PNGAvailable onlineCall Number: [EL]ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-0725-1,978-982-04-0726-8 Physical Description: 132 p

The Governance Assessment for Protected Areas and Conserved Areas (GAPA) methodology manual is the product of four years’ workAvailable onlineCall Number: [EL]ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-78431-733-1Physical Description: 160 p

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.

In 2018, the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a decision on protected areas and other

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.

Protected areas for Pacific Island Communities - Managing natural resources now and for the future (Poster)Online - PosterCall Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1p. : ill, (col.)

Protected areas are key to biodiversity conservation. While the value of protected areas is generally undisputed, challenges remain. Many areas designated as protected were created for
objectives other than biodiversity conservation, and those objectives can conflict with biodiversity
conservation. Protected area legal status is, in many cases, impermanent. Protected areas are
generally too small, isolated, and few to conserve biodiversity on their own, and thus there are calls