This publication from the IUCN provides guidance for terrestrial, marine, and freshwater protected area managers on the restoration of natural and associated values of protected areas.
This briefer outlines Nature United's approach to building partnerships with Indigenous Peoples. This approach aims to uphold the authority of Indigenous Peoples to steward their lands and waters.
This report, from the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, examines how protected areas, ecological corridors, and other conservation mechanisms contribute to maintaining ecological connectivity across large landscapes and seascapes.
These guidelines provide advice on identifying and reporting other effective area-based conservation mechanisms (OECMs) in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments.
These guidelines offer a global standard for identifying Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) to ensure consistent, scientifically rigorous, and practical methods
This resource outlines respectful approaches for collaborating with Indigenous conservation leadership.
This Policy Brief explores the issues of territories and areas conserved by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (ICCAs), discusses key approaches for appropriately recognizing, respecting and supporting overlapped ICCAs, and offers recommendations.
This IUCN best practice guide provides ideas on how to enhance the equity in the relationship between staff and management of protected areas and the Indigenous/local community of that area.
This toolkit provides valuable information on ICCAs can be supported through building capacity and sharing knowledge. Key sections explore Documenting Presence (pg. 14), Management Planning (pg. 30), Monitoring and Evaluation (pg. 44), Communication (pg. 52), and Finance and Values (pg. 60).
This report offers a deep dive into Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs). It establishes an international definition and overall objectives, as well as describing criteria and characteristics of KBAs.