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Reports
How Do We Enhance Area-Based Conservation?
The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas and Equilibrium Research, has developed an initial paper on best practices, with funding from the United Kingdom’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), to facilitate the conversation.
Report of the UNDP, SCBD & UNEP-WCMC examining the current status of, benefits of, and opportunities for protected areas and OECMS.
The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review
Final report of the Independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.
One World, One Health Recommendations to Harness the Power of Landscapes
Perspectives from the Global Landscapes Forum community with inputs from partner and youth organizations
Covid-19 Response and Recovery: Nature-Based Solutions for People, Planet and Prosperity
Recommendations for Policy Makers which highlight the critical connection between the health of nature and human health.
Summarizes the latest data on the status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions relevant to the further implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
New Nature Economy Report II: The Future of Nature and Business
The practical insights needed to take leadership in shifting towards a nature-positive economy.
The World Wildlife Fund’s flagship publication released every two years, is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet.
World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2020
The 15th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report.
Financing Nature: Closing the Global Biodiversity Financing Gap
The “Financing Nature” report offers the most comprehensive assessment to date on how much the world currently spends to benefit nature, how much more we need to be spending, and how we can close that nature funding gap now.
IUCN Global Standard for Nature Based Solutions
IUCN Global Standard provides clear parameters for defining Nature Based Solutions (NbS) and a common framework to help benchmark progress.
IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services 2019
A global assessment of status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services, the impact of biodiversity and ecosystem services on human well-being and the effectiveness of responses, including the Strategic Plan and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors
The purpose of these Guidelines is to consolidate this wealth of knowledge and best-available practices to support efforts to combat fragmentation.
Ocean deoxygenation : everyone’s problem : causes, impacts, consequences and solutions
A 2019 IUCN report on the scale and nature of the changes being driven by ocean deoxygenation.
An easy to understand guidebook by the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) about the importance of biodiversity, the Convention on Biological Diversity and how the CBD process.
Scientific Reference
A Nature-Positive World: The Global Goal for Nature
Locke, H., Rockström, J., Bakker, P., Bapna, M., Gough, M., Hilty, J., Lambertini, L., … & Zurita P. (2021). NaturePositive.org.
Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health
Plowright, R. K., Reaser, J. K., Locke, H., Woodley, S. J., Patz, J. A., Becker, D. J., … & Tabor, G. M. (2021). The Lancet Planetary Health.
Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications
Waldron, A., Adams, V., Allan, J., Arnell, A., Asner, G., Atkinson, S., … & Zhang, Y. (2020). Campaign for Nature.
Locke, H., Ellis, E. C., Venter, O., Schuster, R., Ma, K., Shen, X., … Watson, J. E. M. (2019). National Science Review, 6(6), 1080–1082.
An update on progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 11
Gannon, P., Dubois, G., Dudley, N., Ervin, J., Ferrier, S., Gidda, S.,… Shestakov, A. (2019). PARKS, 25(2), 7–18.
MacKinnon, K., Smith, R., Dudley, N., Figgis, P., Hockings, M., Keenleyside, K., … & Wong, M. (2020).
Woodley, S., Locke, H., Laffoley, D., Mackinnon, K., Sandwith, T., & Smart, J. (2019). PARKS, 25(2), 31–46.
Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat
Garibaldi, L. A., Oddi, F. J., Miguez, F. E., Bartomeus, I., Orr, M. C., Jobbágy, E. G., … & Abramson, G. (2020). Conservation Letters, e12773.
Area‐based conservation beyond 2020: A global survey of conservation scientists
Woodley, S., Bhola, N., Maney, C., & Locke, H. (2019). PARKS, 25(2), 19–30.
A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets
Dinerstein, E., Vynne, C., Sala, E., Joshi, A. R., Fernando, S., Lovejoy, T. E., … Wikramanayake, E. (2019). Science Advances, 5(4). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw2869
Integrating Climate, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Land Use Strategies: Innovations from China
Schmidt-Traub, G., Locke, H., Gao, J., Ouyang, Z., Adams, J., Li, L., … & Zhu, C. (2020). National Science Review.
For more academic articles on conservation, please see our archive of Academic Articles.
Area-Based Conservation and Biodiversity
Protected Area Governance andManagement
IUCN WCPA Handbook on Protected Area Governance and Management (Worboys, et al. 2015)
English, Spanish, French
30×30 (CBD Target 3)
IUCN WCPA. 2021. Conserving at least 30% of the planet by 2030: What should count?
English, Français, Castellano, 中国人
UNDP, SCBD & UNEP-WCMC (2021). Creating a Nature-Positive Future: The contribution of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures. UNDP: New York, NY.
Outcomes and Effectiveness
Stolton, S., Dudley, N. and Hockings, M. 2021. METT Handbook: A guide to using the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT). Second edition guidance for using METT-4. WWF, Gland, Switzerland (Videos: Introduction and Using the new METT-4) Facebook group
Indicators
CBD. 2021. Proposed headline indicators of the monitoring framework for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. CBD/WG2020/3/3/Add.1 11 July 2021
CBD. 2021. Proposed monitoring approach and headline, component and complementary indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. CBD/WG2020/3/INF/2 5 August 2021
UNEP WCMC 2022. Indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
Protected Areas
Protected Planet World Database on Protected Areas UNEP WCMC
Protected Planet Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME) UNEP WCMC
IUCN Green List Standard IUCN Green List website
Protected Planet IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas
OECMs
This case study compilation was developed by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (2022) to clarify what constitutes an “Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measure” (OECM).
OECMs Land and Sea Use Case Studies Compilation
Decision 14/8 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Protected Areas and Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures
العربية, English, Español, Français, Русский, 中文
IUCN-WCPA Task Force on OECMs, (2019). Recognising and reporting other effective area-based conservation measures. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN
Site-level tool for identifying other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). Version 2.0, May 2022 IUCN WCPA
Jonas, H., and MacKinnon, K. 2021. Recognising and reporting other effective area-based conservation measures. IUCN WCPA Technical Note Series No. 6, Gland, Switzerland: IUCN WCPA. 5pp.
PARKS Journal Special Issue on OECMs 2018
Training materials on OECMs (hosted by Bundesamt fúr Naturschutz)
Protected Planet World Database of OECMs UNEP WCMC
Privately Protected Areas
IUCN WCPA Best Practice Guidelines for Privately Protected Areas
Spanish, French, Japanese
The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
Spanish
WCPA Specialist Group on Privately Protected Areas
Bingham, Heather, James A. Fitzsimons, Kent H. Redford, Brent A. Mitchell, Juan Bezaury-Creel and Tracey L. Cumming. 2017. Privately protected areas: Advances and challenges in guidance, policy and documentation. PARKS 23(1).
Training materials on Privately Protected Areas (hosted by Bundesamt fúr Naturschutz)
Indigenous Peoples (“Territories of Life”)
Protected Planet ICCA Registry UNEP WCMC
Borrini-Feyerabend, G., P. Bueno, T. Hay-Edie, B. Lang, A. Rastogi and T. Sandwith. 2014. A primer on governance for protected and conserved areas, Stream on Enhancing Diversity and Quality of Governance, 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
Statements
The G7 Leaders, commit to the global mission to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
Emphasized the importance of protecting, conserving and restoring nature and ecosystems to achieve the Paris Agreement temperature goal.
High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
50 Countries Announce Bold Commitment to Protect at Least 30% of the World’s Land and Ocean by 2030.
Post-2020 Partnership Pavilion Outcome Document Summary
Presented to the High-Level Segment of CBD COP-15, emphasizing the need for an “equitable, nature-positive, carbon-neutral world.”
The UN Secretary-General State of the Planet Speech
A landmark speech setting the stage for dramatically scaled-up ambition on climate change over the coming year.
A Call to Action for Transformative Change for Nature and presented as a contribution to the UN Summit on Biodiversity, September 2020.
Political leaders that participated in the UN Summit on Biodiversity in September 2020, have committed to reversing biodiversity loss by 2030.
NGO Joint Statement on post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
A statement from group of NGOs outlining key milestones the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must incorporate to reach the 2050 Convention on Biological Diversity Vision.
Nature Champions: Call to Action
A coalition of Nature Champions of international leaders from philanthropy, industry, NGOs, UN agencies, Indigenous peoples and governments came together at the Nature Champions Summit in Montréal, Canada in April, 2019.
The Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Manifesto
The Nature-Based Solutions Coalition co-led by China and New Zealand launched the NBS for Climate Manifesto ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019.
Initiatives
High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
An intergovernmental group of over 90 countries championing a global deal for nature and people with the central goal of protecting at least 30 percent of world’s land and ocean by 2030.
Calling on world leaders to commit to protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030; help mobilize financial resources; and fully integrate and respect Indigenous leadership and Indigenous rights.
Global Youth Biodiversity Network
An international network of youth organizations and individuals from every global region who have united together to prevent the loss of biodiversity and preserving Earth’s natural resources.
A Goal which aims to achieve zero net loss of nature from 2020, be net positive by 2030, and see a full recovery by 2050.
An international coalition of scientists, conservationists, non-profit’s, and public officials that has a global ground game in place that will protect 50% of the planet by 2030.
A call to protect half the land and sea in order to manage sufficient habitat to reverse the species extinction crisis and ensure the long-term health of our planet.
A global movement to inspire love of nature which believes that more people experience and share their love of nature, the more support and action there will be for its conservation
A group that aims to have governments move towards an approach that helps address the issues of climate and ecological breakdown harmoniously.
A geoportal that provides a set of integrated global maps on biodiversity and ecosystems services based on the best available scientific data and allows users to explore and provide feedback.
Institutional Links
Governance, Rights and Equity
Indigenous Peoples
IUCN Indigenous Peoples Organizations. 2021. Global Indigenous Agenda for the Governance of Indigenous Lands, Territories, Waters, Coastal Seas and Natural Resources. World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 2021. A Training Manual for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on the Convention on Biological Diversity. Español
Governance Frameworks
IUCN CEESP. Natural Resource Governance Framework. (multiple documents)
Borrini-Feyerabend, G., P. Bueno, T. Hay-Edie, B. Lang, A. Rastogi and T. Sandwith. 2014. A primer on governance for protected and conserved areas, Stream on Enhancing Diversity and Quality of Governance, 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
Rights
United Nations Human Rights Council. 2021. Resolution on the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable Environment. UN General Assembly
Equity
Bennett Nathan J., Katz Laure, Yadao-Evans Whitney, Ahmadia Gabby N., Atkinson Scott, Ban Natalie C., Dawson Neil M., de Vos Asha, Fitzpatrick Juno, Gill David, Imirizaldu Mael, Lewis Naia, Mangubhai Sangeeta, Meth Leah, Muhl Ella-Kari, Obura David, Spalding Ana K., Villagomez Angelo, Wagner Daniel, White Alan, Wilhelm Aulani. 2021. Advancing Social Equity in and Through Marine Conservation. Frontiers in Marine Science
Benefit Sharing
Stolton, S., Timmins, H. and Dudley, N. (2021). Making Money Local: Can Protected Areas Deliver Both Economic Benefits and Conservation Objectives?, Technical Series 97, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal. 108 Pages.
Ecological Connectivity
Hilty, J.*, Worboys, G.L., Keeley, A.*, Woodley, S.*, Lausche, B., Locke, H., Carr, M., Pulsford I., Pittock, J., White, J.W., Theobald, D.M., Levine, J., Reuling, M., Watson, J.E.M., Ament, R., and Tabor, G.M.* (2020). Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 30. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. *Corresponding authors: Hilty (jodi@y2y.net), Keeley (annika.keeley@yahoo.com), Woodley (woodleysj@gmail.com), Tabor (gary@largelandscapes.org),
Areas of Importance for Biodiversity
Sustainable Development Goals
Kettunen, M., Dudley, N., Gorricho, J., Hickey, V., Krueger, L., MacKinnon, K., Oglethorpe, J., Paxton, M., Robinson, J.G., and Sekhran, N. 2021. Building on Nature: Area-based conservation as a key tool for delivering SDGs. IEEP, IUCN WCPA, The Nature Conservancy, The World Bank, UNDP, Wildlife Conservation Society and WWF.
Talks
Re:Co Podcast
The Future in Sound : Nature Positive
EarthX Half-Earth Day Presentation:
Nature Needs Half (starting at 31:34)
Ontario Land Trust Alliance:
Land Trusts, Ecological Corridors and Nature Conservation That Matters
National Marine Protected Areas Centre of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
Conservation Targets and How Much of the World do we Need to Protect?
Green Growth and Sustainable Development Conference:
The Important Role of National Parks in Green Growth and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Canada