Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "national park"

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    • IUCN Directory of South Asian Protected Areas 

      United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2005)
      Protected areas are predominantly natural areas established and managed in perpetuity, through legal or customary regimes, primarily to conserve their natural resources. Despite the acute pressures of rapidly increasing ...

    • Peel Watershed, Yukon. International Significance from the perspective of Parks, Recreation and Conservation 

      United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (United Nations Environment Programme-WCMC) (UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1994)
      This study was commissioned by the Yukon Parks Branch of the Department of Environment, Government of Yukon. Its purpose is to assess the significance of the Peel Watershed, a wilderness region within the central Yukon ...