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What is IUCN?
Discover IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), the world’s largest global environmental network. We are working in more than 160 countries, gathering the latest knowledge on biodiversity, running hundreds of conservation projects around the world and being nature's voice on the international stage. Watch this video and find out who we are and how we work for a just world that values and conserves nature. …
09 Feb 2012 | Video
Preserving Guinea Bissau’s natural and cultural diversity
Guinea Bissau houses a wealth of biodiversity that is of local, national, and global significance. However, growing population pressure on coastal and marine resources, shifting agriculture, rice production, artisanal fishing and the extraction of fuelwood from forests and mangroves are causing increasing biodiversity loss. …
18 Apr 2010 | Video
Nature-our trusted ally in climate change fight
How can nature help us adapt to climate change and minimize its effects? This film explains the two solutions IUCN sees to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts - reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and ecosystems-based adaptation. …
18 Apr 2010 | Video
IUCN-Holcim partnership on biodiversity and building materials
IUCN and Holcim enetered into a partnership in 2007 to review the cement giant's biodiversity conservation management and develop a more comprehensive corporate biodiversity policy and strategy for the Holcim Group. Watch this movie to see concrete activities under the partnership. …
17 Mar 2010 | Video
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Healthy Parks Healthy People
Based on the understanding that people are not separate from nature, Healthy Parks Healthy People is an approach that is focused on protecting the world’s most important assets – nature and humanity. …
26 Feb 2010 | Video
Improving lives and protecting biodiversity in Guatemela
Central America is rich in natural and cultural diversity. But this ‘bio-cultural’ wealth is a stark contrast to the poor management of the region’s ecosystems, economic and social inequalities and some of the worlds’s highest rates of deforestation. As a response, IUCN is working through its Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) to sustain the flow of goods and services from forest landscapes for the benefit of local people and biodiversity. In Guatemala, LLS is underway at two sites, Lachua and Tacanà. This nine-minute video describes these two projects and the impact they are having.
The movie is currently in Spanish, but a version with English subtitles will be available soon on this site.
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26 Feb 2010 | Video
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Biodiversity is life. Biodiversity is our life.
Watch the official International Year of Biodiversity video and learn more about the value of biodiversity and why it is in crisis. …
16 Feb 2010 | Video
Countdown 2010: Celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity
A film by Countdown 2010, IUCN's initiative on the 2010 biodiversity target. …
03 Feb 2010 | Video
A paradise in peril
New Guinea is recognised globally for its extraordinary biodiversity, including almost all of the world’s Birds of Paradise. Papua, the Indonesian half of the island, still has 70% forest cover, yet its Baliem Valley, which supports one of the highest rural population densities in Papua, is under threat from logging and development. …
31 Jan 2010 | Video
Forests for the 21st century
More than half of the world's forest cover has been lost. Deforestation is currently responsible for nearly 20 per cent of global carbon emissions. We need to reduce this tide of deforestation, but we can make a much greater impact if we also put back some of our lost forests. …
29 Jan 2010 | Video
IUCN's Director General on the International Year of Biodiversity
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. It's an opportunity to find real solutions to safeguard the natural environment which mankind depends upon. IUCN is playing a key role in pushing for immediate action to protect species, ecosystems and natural resources before it's too late. IUCN's Director General, Julia Marton-Lefèvre, says that, coming straight after Copenhagen, the International Year of Biodiversity is very significant. …
01 Jan 2010 | Video
