Story | 09 Jan, 2018
Thai media organisation raises awareness about environmental issues in the region
Over the past two years, social and environmental issues related to Thailand’s overseas investments received extensive media attention in Thailand and across the region, in part thanks to local Thai NGO Chumchon Thai Foundation.
Story | 08 Jan, 2018
Youths unite for sustainable tourism in Sri Lanka
Nishanthan Sobana and her husband are a young couple from Sri Lanka's Mannar District who finished school in the crippled economy of the war-torn Northern Province. Even with her Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Nishanthan initially found it challenging to find a permanent job with a…
Story | 05 Jan, 2018
Achieving successful conservation plans: revised Guidelines for Species Conservation Planning
The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) has released its revised Guidelines for Species Conservation Planning, which aim to ensure conservationists can develop appropriate and realistic conservation plans for species in the current era of profound ecological change, including that of climate…
Story | 27 Dec, 2017
Freshwater biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin Hotspot is remarkably diverse and highly threatened as confirmed by the IUCN Mediterranean Biodiversity Red List assessments. The process to identify and delineate of freshwater Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) in north-west Mediterranean, including…
Story | 27 Dec, 2017
On 1 December 2017, Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with five international organisations working in Thailand including IUCN, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Freeland and the…
Story | 21 Dec, 2017
Endangered primate discovered in threatened Atewa Forest, Ghana
Scientists have discovered the globally threatened White-naped Mangabey (Cercocebus lunulatus) in Ghana’s Atewa Forest. The mangabey, a rare terrestrial monkey, is classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, but a recent assessment of its population points toward it…
Story | 21 Dec, 2017
Nature-based Solutions for flood prevention in SEE
A three-day practical workshop on “Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Flood Prevention in South-Eastern Europe”, organized jointly by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the International Union for Conservation of…
Story | 21 Dec, 2017
Supporting cacao production and restoration in Brazil
Using cacao agroforestry systems to restore the Brazilian rainforest while improving livelihoods and producing deforestation-free commodities in Brazil. A blog by Rodrigo Mauro Freire of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Salome Begeladze of IUCN.
Story | 21 Dec, 2017
The Western Indian Ocean Network on Invasive Species (WIONIS), supported by IUCN, has launched a new website to facilitate information exchange about invasive species.
Story | 20 Dec, 2017
Third update in 2017 of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is announced in Tokyo, Japan
IUCN revealed the conservation status of Japanese and global species at a press conference in Tokyo on 5th December, 2017 to a full house of Japanese and international media correspondents. Many of the new assessments have been possible thanks to a strategic five-year partnership between IUCN…