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Strengthening Regional Cooperation For Wildlife Protection in Asia

Organisation: 
World Bank Group

The objective of the Strengthening Regional Cooperation for Wildlife Protection Project is to assist the participating governments to build or enhance shared capacity, institutions, knowledge and incentives to collaborate in tackling illegal wildlife trade and other selected regional conservation

Second Phase on Strengthening Regional Cooperation for Wildlife Protection in Asia

Organisation: 
World Bank Group

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The objective of the Second Phase of the Adaptable Program Lending (APL) on Strengthening Regional Cooperation for Wildlife Protection in Asia Project is to assist the participating governments of Bhutan and others to build or enhance shared capacity, institutions, knowledge and incentives to col

December 2019

Green Infrastructure Design for Transport Projects: A roadmap to protecting Asia's wildlife biodiversity

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
This report discusses the impacts of transport projects on wildlife and biodiversity in Asia, and how to address them by integrating road ecology principles and green infrastructure measures—from environmentally sensitive road design to animal passage structures and management guidelines—to reduce transport project impacts on wildlife.
June 2018

Before It’s Too Late: Deriving sustainable value from wildlife in the western Congo Basin

World Bank Group
Before It’s Too Late: Deriving sustainable value from wildlife in the western Congo Basin presents lessons from international experience for creating economic value from wildlife to help address the rapid decline of wildlife resources in the the Western Congo Basin while contributing to both poverty alleviation and conservation.
March 2020

Making the Market Work for Nature: How biocredits can protect biodiversity and reduce poverty

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Tackling biodiversity loss is a growing priority for human survival. Introducing incentives for positive actions could play a key role in helping to reverse this loss.

May 2015

The Trade in Wildlife: A framework to improve biodiversity and livelihood outcomes

International Trade Centre (ITC)
The Trade in Wildlife: A framework to improve biodiversity and livelihood outcomes, provides a framework to analyse the impact of the wildlife trade on conservation and local livelihoods.
October 2019

Protecting our World Heritage, Insuring a Sustainable Future

United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
The Protecting our World Heritage, Insuring a Sustainable Future is the first-ever global insurance industry guide highlighting the increasingly important role that the industry needs to play in protecting World Heritage Sites. It explains the risks that insurers face, the role of key actors in the insurance industry, and provides practical tools and a set of basic and advanced recommendations that insurers can implement in their risk management, insurance and investment activities to protect World Heritage Sites, while reducing carbon emissions, building resilience to climate change impacts and tackling biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.
April 2020

The Loss of Nature and the Rise of Pandemics

World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
In light of the COVID-19 crisis, this report considers the links between human destruction of nature and the development of pandemics.

Margaret O’Gorman

President
Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC)
July 2017

Valuing Protective Services of Mangroves in the Philippines: Technical report

Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES), The Nature Conservancy, IH Cantabria
This Technical Report, Valuing Protective Services of Mangroves in the Philippines: Technical report, provides a social and economic valuation of the flood protection benefits from mangroves in the Philippines. This work aims to support decisions across development, aid, risk reduction, and conservation sectors as they seek to identify sustainable and cost-effective approaches for risk reduction. Using high-resolution flooding models, the Report examines the flooding that would occur with and without mangroves under different storm conditions throughout the Philippines and estimates the annual expected benefits of mangroves for protecting people and property in social and economic terms.

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