Story | 05 Sep, 2019
Cities launch park-based programmes to reap health, biodiversity, and financial harvest
Urban biodiversity and healthy natural ecosystems offer a range of benefits to human society, including providing cleaner water, reducing flood risk and storing carbon.
Story | 28 Jun, 2019
Options for Governance and Decision-making across Scales and Sectors
CEESP News - by Dr. Marina Rosales Benites de Franco, Professor and Researcher of Federico Villarreal National University
Story | 31 May, 2019
New Canadian Other Effective Conservation Measure: Canadian Forces Base Shilo
Canada is recognizing 23,061 hectares of a military training base in western Canada as an Other Effective area-based Conservation Measure (OECM). The military training base in the mixed-grass prairie ecosystem of south-central Manitoba is home to 17 at-risk species and a myriad of other wildlife…
Story | 28 May, 2019
Announcing two new Specialist Groups
CEESP is excited to announce two new Specialist Groups to work across disciplines to enhance the CEESP strategic plan leading up to the World Conservation Congress in 2020. If your area of expertise falls within one of these groups, we invite you to join and learn more about getting involved!…
Story | 25 Nov, 2018
PANORAMA initiative expands to showcase civil society engagement on business and biodiversity
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, 23 November 2018 (IUCN) – A new PANORAMA theme exploring how civil society can engage with business aims to scale up new partnerships and action to mainstream biodiversity across different sectors -- a key objective of the UN Biodiversity…
Story | 10 Oct, 2018
Gland, Switzerland, and Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA – IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) (Newmont or the Company) have established a three-year collaborative agreement to…
Story | 02 Oct, 2018
Mainstreaming biodiversity and strengthening business engagements at IUCN Business Week 2018
More than 55 staff members and over 20 business partners exchanged around the theme “Catalysing business engagement and investment for sustainable development” during IUCN Business Week 2018 10-14 September, at IUCN headquarters in Gland.
Story | 21 Sep, 2018
Global Climate Action Summit reinvigorates Paris Agreement, push for restoration
Momentum is everything. The U.S. State of California and city of San Francisco kept climate action momentum fresh in our minds by bringing governments, NGOs, companies, Indigenous People, and the international climate change community to the Global Climate Action Summit to…
Story | 01 Aug, 2018
Advancing the effort to add California’s marine protected area network to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas, IUCN has selected members of the “Expert Assessment Group for the Green List” (EAGL).
Story | 28 Jun, 2018
Blog: Artistic representation meets academic research: Reflections from a journey to Nova Scotia
CEESP News - Dr. Helen Schneider, Flora and Fauna International
I’ve always found something slightly unsettling about visiting a place with a long history of human habitation but only a relatively recent built heritage. Somehow it feels to me that the buildings and other infrastructure…