Story | 11 Apr, 2019
IUCN Oceania has launched a second call for experts to serve on the Pacific Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) for the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme Action Component.
Story | 10 Apr, 2019
Good governance is the key to success in Van Long Nature Reserve
The recent assessment using the IUCN Green List Standard has illuminated a unique natural and cultural landscape in Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve in Vietnam.
Story | 10 Apr, 2019
Exploring conserved areas in Viet Nam
The decision late last year by the Parties to the CBD to recognise “conserved areas” is stimulating new conversations at the national level on diverse forms of nature conservation taking place outside protected areas…
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
GIS maps, storytelling and authoritative documents can now be combined to offer an enhanced experience of conservation and biodiversity data.
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
IUCN Task Force identify a record number of candidate Important Marine Mammal Areas
The IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force identified 55 marine areas in the western Indian Ocean and Arabian Seas important for the conservation of marine mammal species, during the fifth Important Marine Mammal Area workshop in Oman.
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
Global Plastics Challenge in the Spotlight at UN Environment Assembly
Environment Ministers, along with development and environmental practitioners, from around the world recently gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4). This is the world’s highest-level decision-making body for international…
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
IUCN contributes to top FAO report
In February, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published the State of World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture.
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
Getting priorities right for tourism and protected areas
The 2019 World Protected Areas Leaders’ Forum (WPALF) was convened by Parks Victoria in Melbourne and the Wilson’s Promontory National Park from 25-29 March, with a focus on the role of tourism in protected and conserved areas.
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
IUCN lists 6 more new sites as world’s best protected areas
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has admitted six new natural sites to the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas – the first global standard recognising best practice in protected areas. Sites in France and Mexico received the certification at a meeting of the…
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
Isla San Pedro Mártir Biosphere Reserve, Sonora, México
The Isla San Pedro Mártir Biosphere Reserve is one of the best-preserved sites in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), has great scientific relevance and should be considered a natural laboratory of…