Story | 10 Oct, 2016
Panorama – Solutions for a Healthy Planet
Panorama – a new online platform and strong partnership for conservation optimism
Press release | 04 Sep, 2016
Four out of six great apes one step away from extinction – IUCN Red List
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, 4 September 2016 (IUCN) – The Eastern Gorilla – the largest living primate – has been listed as Critically Endangered due to illegal hunting, according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ released today at the IUCN World Conservation Congress…
Story | 29 Aug, 2016
The Mediterranean at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
We share with all the Mediterranean Members and the strategic partners in the region, the main events in which the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation will participate or organise at the IUCN World Conservation Congress that will be held in Hawai'i on 1-10 September 2016.
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
MedCOP: the Mediterranean climate hub
The 22 countries of the Mediterranean area are aware of the deep fragility of the climatic balance that allows the preservation of good living and human development conditions. Fighting climate change is indeed a top priority in the region.
Story | 22 Jun, 2016
Implementing ecotourism activities in Tunisian protected areas
Three protected areas in Tunisia, Ickheul, Boukornine and Chikly Island, have been the last pilot actions developed within the Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism project (MEET), thanks to the partnership convention between the Direction Général de Forêt of Tunisia and the IUCN Centre for…
Story | 20 Jun, 2016
New lionfish sightings in Turkey and Cyprus Marine Protected Areas
This concerns an invasive species in the Mediterranean with potential serious economic and ecologic consequences that has already caused damage in other regions such as the United States and the Caribbean.
Story | 13 Jun, 2016
Advanced course on Protected Areas and socioecological landscape planning
The International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) of Zaragoza, in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature - Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (IUCN-Med), is offering an advanced course on Protected Areas and socioecological landscape…
Story | 13 Jun, 2016
Analysis of the legal frameworks on protected marine areas in Albania, Croatia and Montenegro
In cooperation between the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA, UNEP-MAP) and the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, a comprehensive assessment of the legal and institutional framework for the Marine and Coastal Protected Areas (MPAs) was conducted in three…
Story | 10 Jun, 2016
Wildlife trade and dams putting natural World Heritage at risk – IUCN
Natural World Heritage sites face major threats, such as commercial logging, poaching, gillnet fishing and dams, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In its recommendations to the World Heritage Committee, which meets in July, IUCN has advised that three…
Press release | 10 May, 2016
New IUCN-Toyota partnership to expand knowledge of threats to global biodiversity
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) today announced a five-year partnership to provide funding to broaden the scope of The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This will significantly increase knowledge on the extinction risk of more…