Press release | 21 Feb, 2013
Secrets of world’s richest marine area revealed
A new study finds that sea surface temperature, as well as the size and variety of habitats are the main factors responsible for the proliferation of marine life in the Coral Triangle – the most biologically diverse marine region in the world.
Press release | 25 Jan, 2013
Energy utility RWE and IUCN join forces for nature
Essen, Germany/Gland, Switzerland, 25 January 2013 – Today, Germany’s number one power producer RWE and IUCN signed a three-year agreement on biodiversity management at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The aim is to further integrate protection of biological diversity into the corporate…
Story | 09 Jan, 2013
Lebanon's Marine Protected Areas Strategy
Lebanon's Ministry of Environment and IUCN with the support of partners such as the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas and UN Development Programme have brought forward a Marine Protected Areas Strategy aimed at achieving a healthy, productive, and biologically diverse marine…
Story | 07 Jan, 2013
Lebanon moves forward to protect marine habitats
Lebanon's Ministry of Environment and IUCN with the support of partners such as the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (UN Environment Programme-Barcelona Convention) have brought forward a Marine Protected Areas Strategy aimed at achieving a healthy, productive, and…
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 | 11 Dec, 2012
Nome Workshop Report on Bering Strait Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs)
Warming ocean temperatures and the dramatic loss of ice cover is opening Arctic waters to new and expanded shipping, fishing, research, offshore oil development, and other economic activities.Trans-Arctic and “destinational” shipping will likely grow substantially and will necessarily transit…