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Here you can find audio reports produced by IUCN. Each month, we bring you the latest news and features from the world of conservation. IUCN's audios profile conservation projects on the ground, while looking into the human stories behind the headlines.
What next?
So what do governments need to do now to build on the momentum of the meeting in Nagoya? …
16 Dec 2010 | Audio
Will the ugly duckling turn into a swan?
For the past eight years, parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity have unsuccessfully tried to adopt a protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) – an agreement that would secure fair, globally-regulated access to the earth’s genetic diversity and equitable sharing of the benefits it offers us. …
16 Dec 2010 | Audio
New water project gives new hope to vulnerable people
A new water governance project for the Mesoamerica region was launched today in Cancun, Mexico, during the UN climate talks. …
03 Dec 2010 | Audio
What can we expect from Cancun
After the failure in Copenhagen by world leaders to commit to binding targets for reducing climate warming emissions, hopes for a breakthrough in climate negotiations starting at the end of November are not high. Key solutions such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, making sure new and additional money is avaiable for developing countries to fight the impact of a warmer planet, and Adaptation will help restore lost confidence, according to IUCN's Ninni Ikkala. …
10 Nov 2010 | Audio
Businesses on board – for biodiversity
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 Oc tober 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. …
18 Oct 2010 | Audio
Safeguarding livelihoods in a changing climate: progress in Mozambique
Adaptation to changing weather patterns, some of which may be attributable to climate change, is highly important for people's livelihoods and to help them become more resilient to environmental hazards. Through its Climate Change and Development Project (CCDP), IUCN is working with local and national stakeholders to develop adaptation measures which will sustainably safeguard local livelihoods and habitats into the future. …
01 Oct 2010 | Audio
Sacred Sites - their cultural and natural significance
The diversity of life, apart from biological diversity, also includes our diversity as human beings: our wealth of knowledge, practices, beliefs, values and forms of social organization. But all this is, in fact, inextricably linked with nature: over the centuries, our ancestors have developed ways of interacting with the environment by assigning spiritual values to certain species and places. …
01 Oct 2010 | Audio
The economic costs of losing the planet's biodiversity
As the world continues to deal with the impact of the global economic crisis, the link between the economy and the natural world has never been more critical. In Nagoya, Japan, at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or CBD, the latest findings of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study will be presented, with experts hoping to highlight the growing cost of biodiversity loss and degradation of the natural environment.
Joshua Bishop, IUCN’s Chief Economist, explains why the TEEB study is so important to discussions in Japan.
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01 Oct 2010 | Audio
The world's "Big Plan" to save all life on earth
This month thousands of delegates will be attending a conference in Nagoya, Japan to discuss a “big plan” for the next ten years to reduce the current pressures on all life on earth, the planet’s biodiversity. On the table at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or CBD, are 20 targets designed to prevent the extinction crisis and restore the earth’s natural environment.
Jane Smart, Director of IUCN’s Biodiversity Conservation Group, talks about the importance of the conference and what’s at stake.
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01 Oct 2010 | Audio
Saving the last western gray whales
Just over 130 western gray whales are alive today, and although the population is slowly growing, it is still on the edge of survival. A new satellite tagging project offshore northeast Sakhalin Island could bring more light to the whales' movements and contribute to the recovery efforts of scientists. …
01 Oct 2010 | Audio
