Story | 09 May, 2022
New report released on Governance of High Seas Ecosystems: Big Data & AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) analytics and data visualization technologies can help practitioners to access, utilize and disseminate information in a strategic and cost effective way for management and conservation in remote areas. The new report reviews the existing state-of-the-art on remote…
Story | 09 May, 2022
IUCN Green List extends deadlines for five Calls for Proposals for external consultancies
The IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas team is extending the deadline for five Calls for Proposals for external consultancies related to the Green List. The new terms of reference are now online on the IUCN Human Resources Management System.
Story | 09 May, 2022
Amy Dickman and Alayne Oriol Cotterill, Joint CEOs and Catherine Coulson, Director of Fundraising and Communications at Lion Landscapes are joined in this conversation by Cécile Fattebert of the IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas team.
Story | 09 May, 2022
Big, bold, and boreal: The largest private conservation project in Canadian history
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has launched a bold new project in the heart of the country’s boreal forest. When complete, Boreal Wildlands will be the largest private conservation project in Canada’s history – 1,450 square kilometres. The project will…
Story | 06 May, 2022
Freshwater resources and the life and diversity they sustain are under mounting pressure from mass alteration of the river, estuarine, peatland, wetland and watershed ecosystems worldwide, made worse by the impacts of climate change.
Story | 05 May, 2022
Blog: A global outlook on land health
By Jonathan Davies. Healthy soils, rich in biodiversity, are the foundation of life on earth. They sustain all other life on land, support food production, regulate water supplies, and capture atmospheric carbon that would otherwise contribute to climate change. As we have been reminded by the…
Story | 04 May, 2022
Important Shark and Ray Areas news
The IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group has developed the foundations for an expert-driven innovative approach to ensure that discrete portions of habitats, critical to shark species, are delineated and used in various place-based conservation and management initiatives…
Story | 06 Apr, 2022
The movement gaining momentum: Save Soil
Save Soil is a global movement launched by Indian spiritual leader Sadhguru to address land degradation and advocate for healthy soil. The initiative was presented on 5 April at the United Nations in Geneva by the Isha Foundation and supported by the WHO, UN SDG lab, and IUCN.
Story | 01 Apr, 2022
Targets for effective area-based conservation under the 30x30 ambitions: What Counts? Who Counts?
On 25 March 2022, the IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas Team, together with WCPA, CEESP, the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity and ICCA Consortium organised a side event at the CBD meetings of the SBSTTA, SBI and OEWG in Geneva.
Story | 31 Mar, 2022
An IUCN Green List project, funded by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, about ‘Promoting Fair and Effective Conservation of Protected and Conserved Areas globally based on experience in Asia’ has achieved successful completion…