March
Climate change resilience and good water governance in Mesoamerica
A recent workshop in the Sixaola River watershed, located on the Caribbean side of the Costa Rica-Panama border, highlighted the vulnerability of communities to increasing climate change impacts. … | Spanish
28 Mar 2011 | News story
Le processus REDD au Cameroun prône l’amélioration
Yaoundé, la capitale du Cameroun, a abrité du 02 au 03 mars dernier, l’atelier d’analyse participative du cadre de la gouvernance forestière en rapport avec le processus REDD au Cameroun. …
28 Mar 2011 | News story
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Meeting to review invasive species and risks in Lake Tanganyika basin
Officials, managers and experts from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia are meeting in Bujumbura, Burundi from tomorrow to review known invasive species and risks in the Lake Tanganyika basin. The workshop, to be held from 29 – 31 March 2011 will also discuss ways to monitor, manage and control existing or possible future invasive species threats. …
28 Mar 2011 | News story
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Holistic approach is vital to combat climate change
Government, industry, community groups, individuals and all sections of the community have a part to play in responding to climate change, experts said at a discussion on 24 March 2011. …
28 Mar 2011 | News story
South African Member WESSA celebrates 85th birthday
This year, the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) celebrates 85 years of proactive nature conservation and education, which has benefited the country and beyond. …
25 Mar 2011 | News story
Africa’s rhinos face worst poaching crisis in decades
Well-equipped, sophisticated organized crime syndicates have killed more than 800 African rhinos in the past three years - just for their horns. With the most serious poaching upsurge in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya, Africa’s top rhino experts recently met in South Africa to assess the status of rhinos across the continent and to identify strategies to combat the poaching crisis. …
25 Mar 2011 | News story
Urgent action needed to protect Earth’s blue carbon
The destruction of coastal carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves, seagrasses and tidal marshes, is leading to rapid and long-lasting emissions of CO2 into the ocean and atmosphere, according to 32 of the world’s leading marine scientists. …
25 Mar 2011 | News story
Three riparian states agree on the management approaches for Molopo-Nossob river basin
Officials from Botswana, Namibia and South Africa met in Pretoria, South Africa this week to agree on first steps towards the sustainable land management of the Molopo-Nossob river basin. The meeting focused on the implementation arrangements for the Kalahari –Namib project being implemented by IUCN in collaboration with the three countries and with support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) through the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
25 Mar 2011 | News story
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76th meeting of IUCN Council
The 76th meeting of the IUCN Council will take place from 22-25 May 2011, in Gland, Switzerland. … | French | Spanish
24 Mar 2011 | News story
IUCN hosts UN discussions on making gender environmental benchmark
Gender issues could be the common thread running through global environment and development work, and therefore be at the centre of restructuring the UN system to be more consistent across agencies, programmes and conventions. …
24 Mar 2011 | News story
