Grey literature | 2021
Global conservation translocation perspectives : 2021
This seventh edition provides 69 case studies with some 78 species covering plants, mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, invertebrates and reptiles. The projects are ranked as Highly Successful, Successful, Partially Successful and Failure.
Story | 09 Mar, 2021
Mediterranean Noble Pen Shell Crisis (Pinna nobilis) - January 2021 Update
Thanks to the data provided by conservation organisations and institutions from all over the Mediterranean, IUCN-Med has worked to produce the Red List Assessment of the Mediterranean Fan Mussel (Pinna nobilis) which is now officially recognised and listed as "Critically Endangered" by…
Story | 08 Mar, 2021
The role of women in water governance
In January 1992, five hundred governmental and non-governmental water experts gathered in Dublin, Ireland at the International Conference on Water and Environment to discuss the future of global water governance in a changing climate. The guiding principles that emerged from this Conference…
Story | 08 Mar, 2021
Sharing the benefits from river basin management: from theory to practice
Worldwide, water resources are shared between different stakeholders for multiple uses. With water resources becoming scarcer yet users increasing, management of shared water resources can be challenging. Stakeholders in water…
Story | 08 Mar, 2021
Forest landscape restoration needs women
Women play a key role in natural resource use and management, particularly in agriculture and forested landscape systems and along value chains. On International Women’s Day, IUCN delves into why women should be at the forefront of the global…
Story | 05 Mar, 2021
The Centre for Environmental Law (CEL) at Macquarie University recently launched the Biodiversity Law and Governance Webinar Series “Law and Nature Dialogues”.
Story | 05 Mar, 2021
Gland, Switzerland, 05 March 20201 (IUCN) – IUCN has called on governments to channel investments towards nature and nature-based solutions as part of their economic recovery packages to address the ongoing pandemic.
Story | 03 Mar, 2021
Kampala, Uganda, 3 March 2021. Grants to the total value of 368’939 EUR have been awarded to five organisations in Uganda to address biodiversity conservation needs. The European Union…
Story | 03 Mar, 2021
IUCN and IGAD Secretariat with funding from Swiss Development and Cooperation (SDC) through BRIDGE 4 initiative supported a Kenya National Stakeholders Dialogue held in Naivasha, Kenya from 11-12 February 2021.
Story | 02 Mar, 2021
Kenya launches $34 million project to tackle effects of climate change
Kenya has launched a 5-year, USD 34 million project under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help reduce the cost of climate change-induced drought on the country’s national economy