Story | 30 May, 2021
Supported by a small grant from the Mekong WET project, the Culture and Environment Preservation Association (CEPA) in Cambodia is supporting local managers to enhance fisheries management in Stung Treng Ramsar Site. The “Mekong Broodstock…
Story | 28 May, 2021
Report: Mainstreaming Blue Nature-Based Solutions into Infrastructure Finance
The challenge is massive – to swiftly move away from a business-as-usual financing approach largely tailored to generating and perpetuating infrastructure that is both grey and vulnerable, towards blue finance solutions. This new report looks at efforts by different Multilateral Development…
Story | 27 May, 2021
The ocean and the UNFCCC Global Stocktake: What does this mean?
What the ocean means to the Global Stocktake (GST) has been analysed by multiple conservation organisations in this new report. The conclusion? The ocean, as a central part in the Earth's climate system, must also be central to the UNFCCC’s GST.
Story | 17 May, 2021
Farmer organisations and the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions: An illustration
IUCN is onto something with the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions and its associated self-assessment. However, the best way to reinforce the universal value of this tool is for different types of organisations to apply the self-assessment to their own…
Story | 10 May, 2021
First guidelines to design and deploy Blue Carbon projects in Europe and the Mediterranean
IUCN launches a manual to support financing of restoration and conservation efforts on a European and Mediterranean scale.
Story | 10 May, 2021
Thailand celebrates Thailand National Mangrove Day
H.E. Varawut Silpa-archa, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, encouraged the nation to celebrate National Mangrove Day and the success Thailand has had in increasing mangrove forest areas. In addition, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Mr.…
Story | 07 May, 2021
Developing the ‘Ramsar Label’ – adding value to wetland products, and increasing local resilience
With the goal of elevating the market value of wetland products and encouraging the protection of wetland ecosystems, researchers from Can Tho University, in collaboration with the staff of U Minh Thuong National Park and Ramsar Site, organised training
Story | 07 May, 2021
Working closely with ten organisations in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, the Building River Dialogue and Governance for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins (BRIDGE GBM) project, facilitated by IUCN, has…
Story | 28 Apr, 2021
What comes next for landscape governance in DRC, Ghana and Uganda?
The Stabilising Land Use project sought to improve the governance of natural resources for communities around protected areas in six landscapes across four countries in Africa. At the conclusion of the project, we checked back in with the project teams and community…
Press release | 28 Apr, 2021
Sustainable management of natural resources can reduce risk of armed conflict – IUCN report
Gland, Switzerland, 28 April 2021 (IUCN) – Countries where natural resources such as agricultural land and water become scarce or degraded tend to be more conflict-prone, a new IUCN report finds. The report concludes that conserving and sustainably managing natural resources…