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Global Status of Biological Diversity - Report of the Secretary General
UN, 2001. E/CN.17/2001/PC/18
Prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme as task manager for chapter 15 of Agenda 21, with contributions from other United Nations agencies and international organizations.

In the front line - Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
UNEP-WCMC, 2006. Biodiversity Series No 24.
ISBN: 92-807-2681-1
Sue Wells, Corinna Ravilious and Emily Corcoran.
The tragic and devastating consequences of the Asian tsunami, December 2004 , and the hurricanes and cyclones of 2005 were a wake up call for the global community, dramatically drawing attention to the dangers of undermining the services that coastal ecosystems provide to humankind.

Protected Areas and Biodiversity: An Overview of Key Issues
CBD Secretariat and UNEP-WCMC, February 2004. Biodiversity Series No 21.
ISBN: 92 807 2404 5
Protected Areas and Biodiversity: An Overview of Key Issues synthesizes key aspects in the development of protected areas: the level of international commitment, the relationship of protected areas to sustainable development, and critical issues related to their effectiveness. This publication has been compiled by the Secretariat of the CBD and UNEP-WCMC as an input to the Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

Bamboo Biodiversity - Africa, Madagascar and the Americas
UNEP-WCMC/INBAR, 2004. Biodiversity Series No 19. 340p.
ISBN: 92 807 2383 9
Nadia Bystriakova, Valerie Kapos, Igor Lysenko.
Publisher University of California Press.
Order directly from the University of California Press on: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9941.

World Atlas of Biodiversity
UNEP-WCMC, 2002. 340p.
ISBN: 0-520-23668-8
Order directly from the University of California Press on: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9941.

Global Biodiversity Assessment
UNEP, 1995. 1140p.
ISBN: 0521564808
Available through Earthprint from http://www.earthprint.com/

Global Biodiversity 1992: Status of the Earth's Living Resources
Compiled by World Conservation Monitoring Centre in collaboration with The Natural History Museum, London, and in association with IUCN, UNEP, WWF & WRI.
Chapman & Hall, London, 1992. 585p.

CITES Handbook
CITES, 2001. 360p.
ISBN 2-88323-009-9,
The CITES Handbook has been compiled to provide for the Parties to CITES and others who are interested the most essential texts for the implementation of the Convention in one single reference book.

Tourism and Biodiversity: Mapping Tourism’s Global Footprint
UNEP/CI, 2003.
The publication illustrates the overlap between tourism development
(present and forecasted) and biodiversity hotspots highlighting tourism related threats and opportunities for biodiversity conservation and improved human welfare.

United Nations List of Protected Areas
IUCN/UNEP in collaboration with the IUCN and its World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), 2003.
ISBN 2-8317-0746-3, 92-807-2362-6.

Biodiversity and Sustainable Development
UNEP/Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), 2002.
SBCD published texts to promote general understanding of the importance of, and the measures required for, the conservation of biological diversity.
Newsletter and brochures are available on SBCD website: http://www.biodiv.org/outreach/ awareness/publications.asp.

Global Biodiversity Outlook
UNEP/Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), 2001.
This release is the result of an ambitious collective effort that point at some of the critical issues that must be adressed if the Convention is to succeed in meeting its three objectives, namely, the conservation of the biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of genetic resources.

Handbook of the Convention on Biological Diversity
UNEP/Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), 2001.
ISBN 1-85383-737-7
This Handbook is intended to provide a reference guide to decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity as well as a guide to ongoing activities in relation to particular Articles and/or thematic areas of the Convention.

Biosphere Reserves: Special Places for People and Nature
UNESCO, 2002. 208p.
ISBN 92-3-103813-3

WEHAB Framework For Action on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
WEHAB, 2002.
Prepared by WEHAB for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, August 2002.

Millenium Ecosystems Assessments
(in preparation)
http://www.ma-secretariat.org/

Living Planet Report 2004
WWF, 2004.
ISBN: 2-88085-265-X.
The Living Planet Report is WWF's periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems - as measured by the Living Planet Index - and the human pressures on them through the consumption of renewable natural resources - as measured by the Ecological Footprint.

Money talks: Economic Aspects of Marine Turtle Use and Conservation
WWF, 2004.
Troëng, S. and Drews C.
The study – the first to assess the economic value of sea turtles on a global scale – compared the revenue generated from killing turtles or collecting their eggs with that generated from tourism at a total of 18 sites in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. It shows that the worldwide decline in sea turtle populations jeopardizes jobs, tourism and coastal economies, especially in developing countries, two thirds of which have sea turtles.

Switching Channels: Wildlife trade routes into Europe and the UK
WWF/TRAFFIC, 2002. 15p.
Illegal wildlife trade routes are difficult to uncover.By their very nature they are covert, sometimes run by organised criminals,and often used to smuggle other commodities such as drugs and guns.This report attempts to uncover some of these complex trade routes into Europe and the UK,as well as the techniques used to smuggle wildlife.

Climate Change and the Biodiversity
IPCC, 2002. IPCC Technical Paper V, 77p.
ISBN 92-9169-104-7.
This is a Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepared in response to a request from the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.