Story | 14 Jul, 2013
Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy - Results and Reflections
Are forests just an economic safety net for the poor? How much are forests actually worth, on a global scale?
Story | 04 Jul, 2013
Flash conferences: 8 extra good reasons to visit “SOS nature” exhibition!
Starting July 9th, anyone in the Geneva region of Switzerland has 8 extra good reasons to visit the “SOS nature” exhibition in La Cité du Temps, central Geneva! All talks in this series of flash conferences will be delivered in the setting of SOS nature photographic exhibition…
Story | 04 Apr, 2013
An Ecosystem Approach to Management of Seamounts in the Southern Indian Ocean
Within the framework of an IUCN/GEF/UNDP Southern Indian Ocean (SIO) Project, IUCN organized in Rome, on 16–17 July 2012, a Management Workshop on conservation and management measures applicable to high seas areas in the SIO. The objectives were to: (i) define the different elements of a…
Story | 18 Dec, 2012
Mediterranean Seagrass Meadows: Resilience and Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation
A Short Summary
Story | 17 Dec, 2012
An Ecosystem Approach to Management of Seamounts in the Southern Indian Ocean
Volume 1: overview of seamount ecosystems and biodiversity
Story | 17 Dec, 2012
An Ecosystem Approach to Management of Seamounts in the Southern Indian Ocean
Volume 2 – Anthropogenic Threats to Seamount
Story | 17 Dec, 2012
An Ecosystem Approach to Management of Seamounts in the Southern Indian Ocean
Story | 18 Oct, 2012
The Convention on Biological Diversity brings focus to the remote ocean
Last week the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Hyderabad, India (8-19 October) took an important step for the global ocean commons, the largest habitat for life on Earth. The 193 Parties to the Convention agreed to send key scientific information to the…
Story | 27 Feb, 2012
Identifying Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas on Seamounts
Seamounts are major topographic features on the high seas and form distinctive habitats in areas that would otherwise be dominated by sedimentary plains (Clark et al. 2010). They are typified by biota that is distinct from species in surrounding sedimentary areas and can be extremely vulnerable…