Story | 07 Apr, 2020
Sustaining Earth: Bring Law, Society and Sustainable Development Together
CEESP News: by Ravi Saxena, Assistant Professor (Politics and International Relations), Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, NMIMS (Deemed to be University), Mumbai, India
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of sustaining life and the earth. There is the need to have a balance between…
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
Saint Lucia equipped with a management effectiveness assessment tool
The BIOPAMA programme continues to strengthen the capacity of protected area stakeholders across the Caribbean by creating tools to assess Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME). The programme has been working with the…
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
Private Sector Engagement and Conservation in West Bengal: monitoring Compensatory Afforestation
CEESP News: by Sudeep Budhaditya Deb, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, West Bengal Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority, Government of West Bengal, India
Regulations, incentives or collaborations are three major modes for involving the private sector in the…
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
IUCN Asia congratulates David Lyman, Marquis Lifetime Achievement awardee
IUCN Asia is proud to share that our conservation partner, David Lyman, is a recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. David Lyman is a distinguished lawyer in Thailand.
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
Developing a Ramsar Site Management Plan for Nepal’s largest lake
IUCN, in collaboration with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) Nepal, is working with stakeholders at Rara Lake Ramsar Site to develop a management plan for the lake’s conservation and…
Story | 06 Apr, 2020
WCEL Member Highlights the Important Role of Environmentally Dedicated Courts
WCEL Member Eeshan Chaturvedi assesses the role of dedicated environmental judicial systems in “Green Courts: The Way Forward?”
Story | 03 Apr, 2020
Sam Dindi the co-founder of Mazingira yetu organization was awarded during the 2019 IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Conservation Forum held in Johannesburg under the theme ‘Securing a Future for Nature in Africa’.
Grey literature | 2019
Identification guide of vulnerable species incidentally caught in Mediterranean fisheries
This identification guide has been developed to support the monitoring of bycatch of vulnerable species in Mediterranean fisheries.
Press release | 03 Apr, 2020
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020 postponed
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the safety of participants and visitors, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the French government have decided to postpone the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020. Previously scheduled for 11 to 19 June 2020, it…
Story | 03 Apr, 2020
Using policy levers to transform business practices
Exploring how civil society organisations (CSOs) can use a range of policy tools to influence business practices for social, environmental and economic benefits was the theme of a recent PANORAMA webinar, hosted by IUCN’s BioBiz Exchange.