The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the world's oldest and largest
global environmental organisation, with more than 1,200 government and NGO members …

Biodiversity is being lost in wetlands at a faster rate than any other biome. Effective
conservation and management of wetlands biodiversity requires data on species status and …

Understanding the successes and failures of management of protected areas is vital for the
conservation of global biodiversity. The Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) is …

Protected areas are increasingly promoted for their capacity to sequester carbon, alongside
biodiversity benefits. However, we have limited understanding of whether they are effective …

African countries need to conserve biodiversity and use natural resources rationally if they
are to avoid continued environmental degradation that jeopardizes sustainable …

Abstract Evaluation of the management effectiveness of protected areas has become a
global priority, especially in coastal zones, where essential services are threatened by land …

In this chapter, we identify the cross-sectoral decisions that require biodiversity data, then
summarize key challenges in Africa around the availability, usability and quality of data …

If parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and their partners are to report
effectively on progress against national, regional and global biodiversity conservation goals …

We present an analysis of changes of state, pressures and conservation responses over 20
years in the Tanzanian portion of the Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa biodiversity hotspot …

Abstract Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play important roles in biodiversity conservation,
the sustainability of ecosystem services, ecosystem resilience in the face of global and …