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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.
Interview with Bolivian NGO on saving the Gran Chaco
IUCN's Veronica Moreno talks to experts from Bolivian organisation Nativa on their work with local authoriteis to save the Gran Chaco. Listen to the audio in Spanish.
Verónica Moreno, de UICN, entrevistó a los expertos bolivianos de la organización Nativa sobre la importancia del trabajo con autoridades locales en el Gran Chaco. Escuche la entrevista en Español. …
08 Sep 2012 | Audio
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Five Congress themes explained
Listen here to a series of interviews in which IUCN experts explain the five Congress themes. …
28 Aug 2012 | Audio
Nature-based solutions to climate change
The impacts of climate change are already being felt: sea levels are rising, threatening island nations and coastal areas, storms are becoming more violent bringing floods and landslides, and droughts are intensifying. While richer nations can try to ‘buy’ protection in the form of engineered solutions, people in developing countries who are bearing the brunt of the impacts need a proven, accessible and affordable option. One such option already exists—conserving and managing nature. Healthy mangroves, forests and wetlands can form physical barriers against extreme weather and help to regulate floods. Radhika Murti of IUCN’s Ecosystem Management Programme describes how people are already using nature to shield themselves from the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. …
06 Sep 2011 | Audio
Arlines unite to help protect the environment
As Vice President of Star Alliance, Christian Klick is a leading force behind Biospheres Connections. …
10 Jun 2011 | Audio
Richard Leakey on poaching and wildlife trade
Kenya-born Richard Leakey has served as head of Kenya Wildlife Service, an IUCN Member. Much of his life has been devoted to conservation and he has been a leading figure in the fight to preserve the African elephant by banning the ivory trade. …
05 Apr 2011 | Audio
We have a plan
Throughout the two weeks of the conference in Nagoya, delegates were discussing a new plan to reduce the current pressures on the planet’s biodiversity and take urgent action to save and restore nature. …
16 Dec 2010 | Audio
New light cast on protected areas
Delegates in Nagoya addressed the question of protected areas from a variety of angles: the percentage of terrestrial and marine areas that should be protected, the financial implications of these efforts, current threats to protected areas and their role in helping us adapt to climate change were just some of them. …
16 Dec 2010 | Audio
Halting habitat loss
In Nagoya, governments made a big and important step forward in addressing the greatest individual threat to biodiversity: the loss and degradation of habitats, such as forests, wetlands or coral reefs, which are natural homes to a variety of plants, animals and other types of organisms. …
16 Dec 2010 | Audio
Good news for threatened species
One of the 20 'targets' under discussion in Nagoya was a target calling for the prevention of the extinction and decline of known threatened species and improvement in their conservation status by 2020. …
16 Dec 2010 | Audio
So where is the money?
During the biodiversity summit in Nagoya, governments agreed on the so-called Strategic Plan, setting 20 targets to respond to the growing threats to the natural world. But no matter how hard we try to restore and conserve nature, little progress will be made without sufficient funding. …
16 Dec 2010 | Audio
