Story | 30 Dec, 2016
Service Procurement Notice (Serbia)
Consultancy for the delivery of the Scoping Study on Ecosystem Services and their role in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Serbia - a call announced within the project “Towards Strengthening Conservation Planning in South-Eastern Europe”, funded by MAVA Foundation.
Story | 26 Dec, 2016
More than half the 155,000 population in Tien Lan District, Viet Nam are women who derive incomes mainly from agriculture and aquaculture. Past practices – especially the clearing of mangroves for shrimp farming – have lowered the resilience of coastal communities, and decreased the natural…
Story | 26 Dec, 2016
Representatives of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam recently met in Bangkok to discuss the objectives and work plan of the newly established Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI). IBRRI was approved by the 52nd meeting of the Ramsar Convention Standing Committee (SC 52)…
Story | 23 Dec, 2016
IGAD, IUCN and UNECE launch project to support transboundary water cooperation in the IGAD region
Transboundary water cooperation often brings many more benefits than expected, but they are frequently not fully perceived and not appropriately communicated to policy-makers. In 2015, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the Horn of Africa requested support from the…
Story | 23 Dec, 2016
Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of Macedonia joins IUCN
Publication | 2016
Field guide to seagrasses of the Red Sea
The purpose of this publication is to provide naturalists, resource managers and scientists with a simple guide to identify all species of seagrasses in the Red Sea. Each species is described in detail using photographs of key and diagnostic features. Key features are those that distinguish a…
Story | 22 Dec, 2016
Hunuwela Estate project site becomes a field laboratory for university students
Dilmah Conservation, the sustainability arm of Dilmah Tea partnered with IUCN Sri Lanka on "Enhancing the watersheds of Hunuwela Estate through sustaining the habitat needs” at the Hunuwela Estate of the Kahawatta Plantations PLC. On 6 December 2016, IUCN conducted an awareness-raising programme…
Story | 20 Dec, 2016
Ten countries collaborate to kickstart restoration work
More than 50 representatives and project team members from 10 Asian and African countries gathered in Douala, Cameroon, last month to begin work on The Restoration Initiative (TRI) – an IUCN-led programme to help these countries define and achieve forest landscape restoration commitments under…
Grey literature | 2016
PiN landscape assessment phase 1
This document provides information on the interdisciplinary situation analysis (ISA) workflow from start to finish with the intention of guiding the PiN team in making decisions about what information and procedures should be included and excluded and who to involve. This paper also makes…
Publication | 2016
Going Dutch : an analysis of the import of live animals from Indonesia by the Netherlands
The aim of this study was to gain insights into the import-export relationships between Indonesia and the Netherlands by studying the trade in live animals from 2003 to 2013. The true dynamics of the trade between both countries are relatively poorly understood. This report allows a better…