Story | 03 Jun, 2020
CEESP News: by Jinfeng Zhou, Linda Wong, Charlotte Hong, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation*
Emergent e-commerce benefits peoples daily lives in numerous ways, but it has also made illegal wildlife trade easy and convenient. During COVID-19, Chinese civil…
Story | 31 May, 2020
Participatory Conservation Economies in Kerala, India: A Stepping Stone to Resilience
CEESP News: by Aditi Bhardwaj, Anil Kumar Bhardwaj and Sunil C.G.*
The participatory Integrated Conservation Development Programmes in major Protected Areas of Kerala, India, have led to the gradual empowerment of the local communities. With financial, social, human and institutional…
Story | 29 May, 2020
International wildlife trade: research and COVID-19
CEESP News: by Dr. Inés Arroyo-Quiroz, Chair of the CEESP Specialist Group on Green Criminology & Researcher at CRIM - UNAM, Mexico
Wildlife trade involves far more than animals harvested in tropical regions and sold in China. Most regions of the world play a role. Here Dr. Inés…
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
A fresh look for the Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) website
CEESP News: by Dilys Roe, Chair of the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi)
The IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) received a small grant from IUCN SSC for communications work and revamped the SULi website. SULi will have a regular…
Story | 02 Apr, 2020
Exploring private investments in conservation, conceptually and in concrete settings
CEESP News: by Masego Madzwamuse (Chair) and Caroline Seagle (Deputy Chair), CEESP Theme on Business, Best Practice and Accountability (TBBPA)
Story | 01 Apr, 2020
World Wetlands Day observed at Loktak Lake, Manipur, India
CEESP News - by Salam Rajesh, IUCN CEESP member
As observed globally in February each year, the World Wetlands Day was observed in a unique way in the midst of a floating village in Manipur’s Loktak Lake, a Ramsar site of international importance.
Story | 25 Mar, 2020
Nature-based Solutions for Water Infrastructure at your service
'Natural water infrastructure' is not built infrastructure. Instead, it is shaped, grown, eroded or deposited by nature over time. It refers to services nature provides for free, such as mangroves protecting shorelines from storms, peatlands sequestering carbon, wetlands filtering contaminated…
Story | 23 Mar, 2020
Conservation through private initiative: A case study in the Western Ghats, India
CEESP News - by Venkat Ramakrishnan, CEESP member
This is the story of indigenous people living in or near one of the Western Ghats’ forests, and their right to continue living there with a sense of dignity and purpose.
Story | 22 Mar, 2020
An integrative approach to assess and mitigate the social impacts of a disaster
CEESP News: by Renata Bennet, Communication Officer at IUCN, on behalf of the Rio Doce Panel
A new publication released by the Rio Doce Panel recommends the adoption of an integrative approach to human and ecosystem health for a sustainable recovery of the Rio Doce Basin in the context…
Story | 21 Mar, 2020
Redefining Concepts around Natural Resources and the Environment
CEESP News - by Mahdi Kolahi, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
When studying or working in natural resources or environmental fields, it is always a question how to call, for example, nature, natural things, and the environment!…