IUCN WCPA’s BEST PRACTICE PROTECTED AREA GUIDELINES SERIES
IUCN-WCPA’s Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines are the world’s authoritative resource for protected area managers. Involving
collaboration among specialist practitioners dedicated to supporting better implementation of ideas in the field, the Guidelines distil
learning and advice drawn from across IUCN. Applied in the field, they build institutional and individual capacity to manage
protected area systems effectively, equitably and sustainably, and to cope with the myriad of challenges faced in practice. The
Guidelines also assist national governments, protected area agencies, non-governmental organisations, communities and private
sector partners in meeting their commitments and goals, and especially the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Programme of Work
on Protected Areas.

A full set of guidelines is available at: www.iucn.org/pa_guidelines
Complementary resources are available at: www.cbd.int/protected/tools/
Contribute to developing capacity for a Protected Planet at: www.protectedplanet.net/