How to Be an Ally of Indigenous-led Conservation
This resource outlines respectful approaches for collaborating with Indigenous conservation leadership.
ICCAs and Overlapping Protected Areas
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.
Communications Guidelines: Guidelines for Communicating with/about Indigenous Partners
These Communications Guidelines developed by Nature United outlines and informs how the organization communicates with an about Indigenous partners in a respectful way.
Ecological restoration for protected areas: principles, guidelines and best practices
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.
Guidance for Building Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples
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.
Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors
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.
Guidelines for Recognizing and Reporting Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures
These guidelines provide advice on identifying and reporting other effective area-based conservation mechanisms (OECMs) in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments.
Guidelines for using A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas
These guidelines offer a global standard for identifying Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) to ensure consistent, scientifically rigorous, and practical methods
A toolkit to support conservation by indigenous peoples and local communities: building capacity and sharing knowledge for indigenous peoples’ and community conserved territories and areas (ICCAs)
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).
A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas
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.