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Biodiversity indicators for integrated environmental assessments at the regional and global level: feasibility study on data availability of six biodiversity indicators
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1996)
As a "Collaborating Centre for Integrated Environmental Reporting, Assessments and Forecasting" of UNEP, National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM), is developing methodologies for integrated ...
A global overview of forest protected areas on the World Heritage List.
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1997)
This working paper provides a global overview of the current coverage of forest protected areas on the World Heritage List and suggests potential forest areas which may merit future nomination to this prestigious List. ...
Industrial reliance on biodiversity. WCMC Biodiversity Series 7 (1997)
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1993)
While developed countries control most of the world's financial resources, it is the developing world that is home to most of its biological resources. This study provides an overview of the extent to which industry in the ...
Checklist of mammals listed in the CITES appendices
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1995)
The purpose of this work is to provide a list of the species and subspecies included in Appendices I, II and III to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). This document ...
Protected Areas of the World: a review of National Systems. Vol 2: Palearctic
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1991)
This book is organised into national (or occasionally sub-national) accounts, each comprising a description of the national protected areas system, accompanied by a summary list and map of protected areas. The book is ...
World Plant Conservation Bibliography
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1990)
There is an ever increasing pressure on the natural resources of planet Earth by mankind - as the human population continues to increase, so does the need for more food, fuelwood, fodder, fibres, timber and other plant ...
The Last Rain Forests
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1990)
The Last Rain Forests guides the reader to a deeper level of understanding on which to base opinions and take action. It is both a unique atlas of the conservation status of all the world's rain forests, and a blueprint ...
State of the world's protected areas at the end of the twentieth century
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1997)
Protected areas are widely held to be among the most effective means of conserving biological diversity in situ (McNeely and Miller, 1984
Peel Watershed, Yukon. International Significance from the perspective of Parks, Recreation and Conservation
(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 ...
Status of the world's transfrontier protected areas
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1997)
Protected areas that adjoin across international boundaries, referred to in this paper as transfrontier protected areas, provide intriguing possibilities for promoting biodiversity conservation across politically-severed ...