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Washington DC, April 25, 2024 — Four new projects are addressing gender-based violence in the context of climate and conservation action through funding from the Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge across Central America, Eastern and Southern Africa and…

African Solutions for Nature and People: Creating transformative responses to the biodiversity and climate crisis in Africa.

The 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva concludes this week. As usual, ‘human rights and the environment’ has been one of the usual themes of the Council's March session. One of the insightful events organised in the margins of this session, in which IUCN participated, was…

Deep seabed mining could negatively impact human rights on many levels, in spite of how its remoteness and depth can make many people feel disconnected from consequences.

Achieving gender equality and empowering women in environmental action are crucial for meeting our objectives in sustainable development, global climate efforts and biodiversity conservation. Despite this, women remain significantly disadvantaged in terms of rights, access to, and ownership over…

Oma Tafua (meaning “to treasure whales”) Kiwa Initiative project, a non-profit organisation in Niue, has achieved remarkable results in whale research. Between 2022 and 2023, the organisation documented over 70 individual humpback whales in Niue's catalogue, setting a record for the NGO and its…

De esta forma, el país centroamericano se suma a las 15 naciones que han identificado sus prioridades y acciones para el empoderamiento de las mujeres en el contexto del cambio climático, utilizando la metodología de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN) como…

IUCN's North America Regional Director represents the voice of the Union on the Steering Committee of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition. 

La UICN (Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza) oficializó la entrega de 20 estaciones meteorológicas al Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología (INSIVUMEH), en el marco del proyecto Altiplano Resiliente, con financiamiento del Fondo Verde…

Las parcelas demostrativas, inauguradas por la UICN y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA), en el marco del proyecto Altiplano Resiliente, buscan beneficiar a las poblaciones locales, en su mayoría Pueblos Indígenas dedicados a la producción de granos básicos, que suelen…