Noticias de y para los Miembros
Participatory Video in the Pangani Basin, Tanzania
Participatory Video, a new innovative way of capturing and sharing communities’ voices on social and environmental change, was recently introduced by the IUCN Water Programme. …
30 Sep 2010 | News story
A solution to the global ocean crisis
3 new publications from the Science-to-Action partnership …
30 Sep 2010 | Article
Una de cada cinco plantas en el mundo está amenazada
Un análisis global del riesgo de extinción para el mundo de las plantas, conducido por el Royal Botanic Gardens de Kew, el Museo de Historia Natural Británico y la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN), revela que éste se encuentra tan amenazado, como lo está el mundo de los mamíferos, con una de cada cinco plantas del mundo amenazada de extinción. … | English
29 Sep 2010 | News story
Where have all the flowers gone?
Volunteers from Münster, led by NABU – an IUCN Member and one of the country's oldest and largest environmental associations, have been working to preserve the region’s orchards and bring back the rich biodiversity they once supported. …
29 Sep 2010 | News story
Caribbean dream
The 2010 target set by governments to reduce biodiversity loss may not have been reached but the thousands of actions taken by partners to IUCN's 'Countdown 2010' initiative are an important step towards the improved status of biodiversity and increased public awareness. …
29 Sep 2010 | News story
Business backs efforts to halt biodiversity loss
Background: Finding ways for businesses to become more involved in helping to halt and reverse the current loss of biodiversity will be the main focus of the International Business and Ecosystems Dialogue, which will take place on Tuesday 26th October in Nagoya, Japan. The dialogue coincides with the 10th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, which will set targets for the next ten years to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss. …
28 Sep 2010 | Media advisory
IUCN at the UN General Assembly - why biodiversity matters
The key to achieving not only one, but several Millennium Development Goals lies in realising how the services that nature provides are linked to our human well-being. This message was part of IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre's speech at the UN General Assembly, currently underway in New York. …
23 Sep 2010 | News story
Securing water for all - a 2050 plan
Having the right institutions and processes in place to cope with increasing demands on water resources, under threat from climate change, is key to ensuring a clean and plentiful supply of water for the world’s growing population. …
23 Sep 2010 | News story
Cash now, save life tomorrow, says IUCN
As world leaders gather in New York for tomorrow’s first ever United Nations high level event on the extinction crisis, ahead of the UN General Assembly, IUCN urges governments to put up the cash that will allow the ever increasing rate of species extinction to be slowed and eventually reversed. …
21 Sep 2010 | International news release
Building bridges to tackle urban water challenges
The growing problem of how to provide clean water for an expanding urban population is one of the topics under discussion at the IWA World Water Congress in Montreal, which takes place from 19 to 24 September in Montreal, Canada. Around 3000 water experts from around the world will attend the conference, hoping to find the best ways of dealing with increasing demands placed on water resources. Mark Smith, Head of IUCN's Water Programme, explains more. …
21 Sep 2010 | Audio
