Publication | 2006
The contribution of wild plants and animals to human welfare is widely appreciated but not routinely measured. Reliable and up-to-date information on the economic importance of wild resources is needed to ensure that development policies and investments take account of the full costs and…
Publication | 2006
Les Conventions locales de gestion des ressources naturelles et de lenvironnement sont une grande réussite au Sénégal. Ces instruments contractuels, négociés au niveau local par une délibération de la collectivité locale et approuvés par lAdministration, peuvent porter sur une simple ressource…
Publication | 2005
Values and rewards : counting and capturing ecosystem water services for sustainable development
Water ecosystems have long been perceived by decision makers as having little value simply because their economic value is poorly understood and rarely articulated. Calculating the economic value of an ecosystem is a means of providing information which can be used to make better and more…
Publication | 2004
The workshop was organised to improve the understanding of the dialectic between water-related infrastructures and institutional frameworks in West Africa. Papers address a multiplicity of issues on water governance: water, wetlands and international environmental agreements; legal aspects of…
Publication | 2004
Chimpanzés d'Afrique de l'Ouest : état de conservation de l'espèce et plan d'action
Les chimpanzés vivent à létat sauvage uniquement en Afrique tropicale où leur population a diminué de plus de 66% au cours des trente dernières années. Ce plan daction concerne lune des quatre sous-espèces de chimpanzés, le chimpanzé dAfrique occidentale, qui est lune des deux sous-espèces…
Publication | 2003
West African chimpanzees : status survey and conservation action plan
Wild chimpanzees are only found in tropical Africa, where their populations have declined by more than 66% in the last 30 years. This action plan focuses on one of the four chimpanzee subspecies, the western chimpanzee, which is one of the two subspecies most threatened with extinction. The aim…
Publication | 2002
Publication | 2001
Produced by IUCN's Eastern Africa Programme, this publication aims to investigate the extent to which communities have been provided with economic incentives to become involved in sustainable forest management in Eastern and Southern Africa, and how far perverse incentives and disincentives…
Publication | 2001
The way in which forest land is owned directly influences the status of the forest, its condition and the way in which it is managed. The greater the security of local forest tenure, the stronger the interest and will of the community towards its security. One of four papers commissioned by IUCN…
Grey literature | 2000
This publication records the methods, lessons and experiences of organizations involved in CBNRM programmes in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to enable organizations and communities to discover and learn from the implementation experiences of counterparts in neighbouring areas. The…