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IUCN PUBLICATIONS - North American Region

IUCN IN CANADA brochure (Nov. 2005), click here

IUCN COUNCIL NEWSLETTER (2005) - North America and the Caribbean Region English; French

 NEW ARRIVALS

New Arrivals to the IUCN Library (PDF lists):Aug. 06;
Jul. 06; Jun. 06; Apr. 06; Feb. 06 ; Jan. 06
Dec. 05; Nov. 05; Oct 05; Sept 05; August 05; July 05;
June 05
; May 05; April 05; March 05; February 05

IUCN Position Papers for COP8, Curitiba, Brazil, 20-31 March 2006, click here

ANNUAL REPORTS

ANNUAL REPORT 2005 Pragmatic Solutions - An Assessment of Progress 2005 (PDF 3 MB)
HTML format

"Solutions pragmatiques - Évaluation des progrès en 2005"
(PDF français 3 MB)
Spanish

ANNUAL REPORT 2004 "Forging Linkages: An Assessment of Progress" (HTML link)

ALL IUCN NEWSLETTERS

IUCN Newsletters from Commissions and worldwide , click here

IUCN World Conservation Journal - The journal is currently being re-designed and will be relaunched in 2007.
All Issues (before 2006)

IUCN Today Bulletin January 05, Issue 1 ; List of former issues

Top 100 projects of IUCN worldwide, click here UPDATED

Arbor Vitæ is an IUCN / WWF Forest Conservation Newsletter, all issues
Latest Issue (June 2006) (PDF 0,4 MB)
REGIONAL NEWSLETTERS

PUBLICATIONS AND NEWSFROM OUR WESCANA members IN ARABIC, English, French, and Wescana-media (news in English): April 2006 Newsletter

PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS IN SPANISH FROM OUR CENTRAL AMERICA AND SOUTH AMERICA REGIONAL OFFICES

Mediterranean Flashnews

IUCN-ROCA (Regional Office for Central Africa);

IUCN-South Africa office, Jan.06

IUCN Asia Newsletter, April 2006, Moving Mountains in Kashmir (PDF, 1,2 MB), or visit IUCN-Asia Web site

COMMISSION NEWSLETTERS AND PUBLICATIONS

Species Survival Commission Bulletins: Current issue August 2006 e-bulletin;
All e-bulletins (monthly news)
Species (bi-annually) (PDF 1.4 MB) 2 special issues on Commission Chairs (including Canadians mentioned here)
No. 45 July-Dec 2006
Dr. Claude Gascon (amphibean), Donna Leaman (medicinal plants)
Dr. Joseph J. Kerekes (diver/loon), Dr. Fred Whoriskey (salmonid)
No. 44 January - June 2006
Dr. C. Cormack Gates (bison North American), Dr. Marco Festa-Bianchet (wild sheep, goats),
Dr. Randall Reeves (cetacean), Dr. Andrew Durocher (polar bear)

Special report by SSC: Voluntarism study on Commission members on specialist groups, click here

Ecosystem Newsletter: April 06;
All Bulletins (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese)
Nov. 05; July 05

WCPA - World Commission on Protected Areas - Proceedings of the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress (HTML)
WCPA North America Region

WCPA Forests & Protected Areas (HTML) - Guidance on the use of the IUCN Protected Area Management Categories
Best Practice Protected Areas Guidelines No 12: PDF version (462 KB)

WCPA High Seas Marine Protected Areas Magazine (Canada is mentioned about 10 times),
PARKS Vol 15, No 3 (2005)
(PDF 1,4 MB)

WCPA Evaluating Effectiveness - A Framework for Assessing the Management of Protected Aress

Communication on Education and Communication (CEC) Newsletters May-June 2006 available.
July Special Issue
CEC Planning Guide for projects (left menu options)
OTHER BULLETINS and PUBLICATIONS

Article from Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, new Executive Secretary for the CBD (starting January 2006). Environment, Peace and International Security

North-South Institute, Ottawa, the bulletin Review (all previous issues)

Innovations Newsletter from The Canadian Model Forest Network, member of the International Model Forest Network Secretariat operated by International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Wikipedia
Wikipedia: Species
Environmental Sciences Books
Wipidedia on-line encyclopedia - references to IUCN's Red List and the Conservation Commons.

TRAFFIC (Joint IUCN and WWF)

Echo from the Rainforest from Sarawak Forestry (a crown corporation of the Governement of Malaysia); innovative Web site: http://www.sarawakforestry.com/htm/publications/index.htm

Tales of Water

Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions: an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005. Three IUCN staff are authors: Neil Cox, Mike Hoffmann and Wes Sechrest : (PDF, 419 Ko)

Greening America's Elite? from Vanity Fair special Green Issue (May 2006): Manitoba Wildlands has compiled web articles

Restoring Forest Landscapes: An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration (Eng, Fr, Esp)
New manual on forest landscape restoration jointly launched by IUCN and ITTO (UN International Tropital Timber Organization) (Nov. 05)

Consider biodiversity when thinking energy: IUCN Statement at CSD 14 (UN Commission on Sustainable Development),
May 3, 2006, New York City (Renewable energy for poverty eradication and productive activities)

Lessons from the Field: Conservation Awareness
Conservation International’s Global Awareness Department launched a new publication series, in collaboration with IUCN, March 2006. PDF large file ; HTML

GINCANA COP-8 Convention on Biological Biodiversity (PDF 1,4 MB) Meeting in Curitiba, March 2006, includes speeches from Mayor of Montreal Gérald Tremblay, IUCN President Valli Moosa, CBD Director General Ahmed Djoghlaf, etc.

Greenfacts popularised version of the Millennium Assessment Report on Biodiversity (multilingual)

Sharing Power: Learning-by-Doing in Co-management of Natural Resources Throughout the World
(IIED and IUCN/ CEESP)

The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Fish Endemic to the Mediterranean Basin

Corporate Responsibility Education in Business Schools & Universities

UNHCR & IUCN joint publications on Refugies and the Environment
Practicing and Promoting Sound Environmental Management in Refugee/Returnee Operations (PDF 3 MB)
Forest Management in Refugee and Returnee Situation: A Handbook of Sound Practices (PDF 2,3 MB)
Livestock-Keeping and Animal Husbandry in Refugee and Returnee Situations: A Practical Handbook for Improved Management
(PDF 2,2 MB)

IUCN's tools - The “How to Guide” for conservation action on
Assessment and Monitoring ¦ Conservation Management ¦ Conservation Policy ¦ IUCN Management

The Future of Sustainability (Report PDF 0,2 MB)

Life, Money & Illusion; Living on Earth as if we want to stay (HTML summary of the book by Canadian Mike Nickerson)

IInvasive species through aquaculture (PDF 3,2 MB)

THE WORLD HERITAGE – UNESCO’S CLASSIFIED SITES
by Patrick Bonneville and Philippe Hemono (from Quebec); All 830 listed sites from 138 countries are featured, including the 18 recent additions made last summer at the 30th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Vilnius, Lithuania. Members of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) can take advantage of a special 15% advance-order discount offer now available online.

VIDEOS

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Video Library (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
WBCSD news video

http://www.green.tv/
UNEP's Creative Gallery
Equator Initiative (UNDP) videos

Conservation International - new marine species (CI is a member of the Conservation Commons and IUCN US member)

Toronto Zoo: Videos Tiger Cubs

Comptuter games and biodiversity

 


PUBLICATIONS FROM MEMBERS, click here


Conservation lands: integrating conservation and sustainable management in Canada’s forests (PDF 4.4 MB)
Canadian Forest Service, 2005 (Collaboratioan from A.Deutz)


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The Future of Forest Conservation in Russia: The Challenges Facing Forests and Strategies for Addressing Them
You can obtain the Proceedings of these Workshops by right-clicking on the link and choosing "save target as".

If you would like to know more about the state of forests in Russia, you may download the following documents and maps:

The State of Forests in Russia
Map of Russia

The State of Forests in the European-Urals Region
Map of the European-Urals Region

The State of Forests in Siberia
Map of Siberia

The State of Forests in the Far-East
Map of the Far-East

Please note that the numbers in the text refer to specific regions and territories which are cross-referenced on the maps.
For Russian versions, contact IUCN-CIS (IUCN Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Russian Federation)