With a PhD from the University of Wales, since 1986 I have been working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where I am currently Senior Research Leader in Conservation Genetics and Molecular Ecology ...
Formally acknowledging water as a human right could encourage the international community and governments to enhance their efforts to satisfy basic human needs and to meet the Millennium Development ...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most water-scarce region in the world. Throughout the MENA region both surface and groundwater resources are under pressure and over exploited because of ...
CISG is a global network of experts working on organisms associated with karst and caves. The majority of caves are found in limestone rock. The cave environment can be divided into the twilight zone ...
The Protected Planet Report 2018 provides an update of progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 at the global scale. With two years to go until 2020, the Protected Planet Report 2018 confirms ...
The threatened species categories used in Red Data Books and Red Lists have been in place for almost 30 years. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria provide an easily and widely understood system ...
“. . . I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing . . .” ...
These Guidelines are intended to help improve the conservation and management of geoheritage and geodiversity in protected and conserved areas and recognition of the interrelationships and ...
La iguana de cola espinosa En Peligro de Roatán (Ctenosaura oedirhina) se encuentra solo en las islas de Roatán, Barbareta y los cayos circundantes. Aunque se pueden encontrar poblaciones densas en ...
The Guidelines aim to be equally relevant for any taxon on Earth. Recent experience has shown that no two planning situations are the same. So while the principles of planning may be constant, the ...
After graduating from University of Zurich, Switzerland, I obtained a doctoral degree in Veterinary Medicine from University of Zurich and a Ph.D. in Conservation Biology at University of New Orleans.
IUCN leads on a series of initiatives and activities to enhance the role of the World Heritage Convention, and make it more effective and relevant to global conservation. These initiatives focus on ...