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IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its more than 1,300 Member organisations and the input of more than 15,000 experts. This diversity and vast expertise makes IUCN the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
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Review of plastic footprint methodologies: Laying the foundation for the development of a standardised plastic footprint measurement tool.
(International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland, 2019)Of the 8,300 million tonnes (Mt) of plastic produced from 1950 to 2015, only 7% has been recycled while more than half has been discarded in landfill or leaked into the environment. Plastic leakage into the environment ... -
IUCN SSC Best Practices Guidelines Marine Specialists Groups : Experience and examples.
(International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland, 2023)The IUCN SSC hosts multiple Species Specialist Groups and Task Forces (collectively referred to as SGs), volunteer groups who dedicate their time and expertise to promoting the conservation of many different taxa around ... -
Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories.[SUPERSEDED by DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-694]
(IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 2008)IUCNs Protected Areas Management Categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives, are today accepted as the benchmark for defining, recording and classifying protected areas.They are ... -
Guidelines for applying the IUCN protected area management categories to marine protected areas. Second edition.
(IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 2019)The primary purpose of these supplementary guidelines is to increase the accuracy and consistency of assignment and reporting of the IUCN categories when applied to marine and coastal protected areas. To avoid unnecessary ... -
Ecological restoration for protected areas : principles, guidelines and best practices.
(IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 2012)This publication provides guidance for terrestrial, marine, and freshwater protected area managers at both system and site levels on the restoration of natural and associated values of protected areas. As this sometimes ... -
Large-scale marine protected areas : guidelines for design and management.
(IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 2017)Although focused on aiding managers, these Guidelines are for anyone involved in supporting LSMPAs or the communities that hold an interest in them. It is hoped these Guidelines will also assist new LSMPAs from the earliest ...
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