Story | 02 Mar, 2023
Integrating voluntary, rights-based family planning in conservation
Carina Hirsch, IUCN SSC CEESP Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force Co-Chair, Advocacy & Projects Manager at the Margaret Pyke Trust
A landslide vote led to the passing of a Resolution entitled Importance for the conservation of nature of removing barriers to…
Story | 02 Mar, 2023
The role of tribal women in balancing family, community, and environment in Araku Valley, India
Dr. Suryakanta Acharya, MD, CEESP member, PAY-W Clinic Founder
Women in the tribal communities of Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh, India are taking a lion’s share of responsibility to balance family, community, and environment. Their role in preserving traditional…
Webinar
Forest Stewardship Council’s upcoming International Women’s Day webinar
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) invites you to an online roundtable “Linking Innovation, Technology, and Forests to Gender Equality”, 7 March, 3-4:30 pm CET. Many normative and…
Story | 22 Dec, 2022
Indigenous Women’s Insights – Stewarding the Earth
In November, all along the busy maze of pavilion buildings in Sharm el Sheik, an estimated 45,000 people snaked along corridors hoping to inform crucial discussions surrounding climate policy at the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention’s 27th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP 27).…
Press release | 08 Dec, 2022
Nature-based Solutions can generate 20 million new jobs, but “just transition” policies needed
Montreal, Canada, 8 December 2022 (IUCN) - Twenty million jobs could be created by further harnessing the power of nature to address major challenges facing society, such as climate change, disaster risk, and food and water insecurity.
Story | 06 Dec, 2022
CEESP News: Dr. J. Marc Foggin, University of British Columbia & IUCN CEESP member, Dr. Richard Gunton, University of Winchester, and Dr. Daniele Brombal, Ca' Foscari University, Venice.
A special issue has recently been launched in the journal Sustainability with focus on…
Story | 07 Dec, 2022
What could a gender-responsive Global Biodiversity Framework look like?
CEESP News: Amelia Arreguin Prado, UNCBD Women's Caucus Co-coordinator and IUCN CEESP member.
Story | 07 Dec, 2022
The rights of Indigenous women in the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
CEESP News: Edith Bastidas, Pasto Indigenous woman, lawyer, and PhD Law candidate, and IUCN CEESP member.
Indigenous women play an important role in the conservation of biological diversity and, correlatively, are severely affected by its loss. Therefore, their visibility and…
Story | 07 Dec, 2022
Manipur fishers hold rally raising awareness on Loktak biodiversity
CEESP News: Salam Rajesh, IUCN CEESP member
Fishing community in Manipur’s Loktak Lake, a Ramsar designated wetland, is blending conservation initiatives with addressing imminent threats to their lives and livelihoods from external interventions. In tune with the objectives…
IUCN event
Members of the Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management and its partners will present their work illustrating the dependence of IPLCs on wild species, the various forms of benefit they derive from these resources, and how sustainable use of wild species contributes to…