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  Biodiversity Data Sourcebook (1994) »

  140 pages of tabular data with supporting text and graphics, on global biodiversity. Topics are covered in a concise way, using tables supported by minimal text and graphics. They include country species diversity, threatened species, national Red Data Books, major food crops, domestic livestock, marine resources, tropical forests, protected areas and systematics collections.

  Resource Type: Reports
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  Climate change and coral bleaching »

  Coral reefs are a critical global resource, both biologically, and in socio-economic terms. Coral reefs are also highly sensitive to climatic influences and appear to number among the most sensitive of all ecosystems to temperature changes, exhibiting the phenomenon known as coral bleaching when stressed by higher than normal sea temperatures.

  Resource Type: Reports
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  Biodiversity Indicators Capacity Strengthening: experiences from Africa »

  This document presents examples of the indicators produced as a result of the Biodiversity Capacity Strengthening in Africa project and is designed as a means for sharing experiences and lessons leant with biodiversity indicator developers across the globe. The report concludes with key challenges and needs for future national indicator development identified by the project partners.

  Resource Type: Reports
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  Protected Areas Systems Review of the Indo-Malayan Realm »

  This report documents the growth and changing character of the protected areas systems of the Indo-Malayan Realm over the ten year period 1986 - 1996 and updates the Review of the Protected Areas System in the Indo-Malayan Realm published by the lUCN in 1986.

  Resource Type: Reports
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  Priorities for Conserving Global Species Richness and Endemism »

  Substantial amounts of detailed biodiversity data exist for the world, and these data can be used to guide conservation priorities. WCMC compiled key data in order to identify areas of high species richness and endemism. This book is made available by kind permission of the UK Department for International Development for whom it was prepared.

  Resource Type: Reports
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  Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Biodiversity Synthesis »

  This report presents a synthesis and integration of the findings concerning biodiversity contained in the reports of the four Millennium Assessment Working Groups (Condition and Trends, Scenarios, Responses, and Sub-global Assessments).

  Resource Type: Reports
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  Non-timber forest products in Uganda. Spatial tools supporting sustainable development »

  This report describes a new map-based approach to defining areas best suited for NTFP commercialization. Uganda is used as a case study. As one of the most rapidly growing economies in Africa, its rich natural heritage highlights the conflict between national development efforts and the need for a globally responsible approach to biodiversity conservation.

  Resource Type: Reports

• Australia: Amelioration of Dryland Salinity using Native Tree Species in New South Wales, Australia »

  State Forests of New South Wales is a government department taking a leading role
  with four projects on the use of reforestation to ameliorate the growing problem of
  dryland salinisation.

  Resource Type: Reports
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  Private Protected Areas: A Preliminary Study of Private Initiatives to Conserve Biodiversity in Selected African Countries (1996) »

  This pilot study demonstrates the significant contribution of private initiatives to national protected area systems and underlines the importance of extending this survey to entire regions, as part of a global review of the role private protected areas.

  Resource Type: Reports
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  Rare Tropical Timbers »

  This paper is based on a feasibility study on the monitoring of rare tropical timber species in international trade.

  Resource Type: Reports