Story | 06 Dec, 2021
Endangered Caspian Seal Habitat Awarded Important Marine Mammal Area Status
Today, the IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas, a joint task force of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the World Commission on Protected Areas, announces that Caspian seals have been awarded three Important Marine Mammal Areas, or IMMAs, as part of a tranche of 14 new IMMAs…
Story | 29 Nov, 2021
How to ignite ecosystem restoration in your community
Grassroots action for the restoration of your local ecosystem is a means to engage yourself and the community around you to become part of the change that you are trying to achieve, according to the IUCN Community-Organizing Toolkit on Ecosystem Restoration.
Story | 07 Nov, 2021
Adaptive Collaborative Management of Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society
CEESP News: by Carol J. Pierce Colfer *
Adaptive Collaborative Management of Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society is a edited collection by 20 international scholars and practitioners who have conducted Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) around the world,…
Story | 02 Nov, 2021
IUCN applauds decision to place climate finance in the hands of nature's most effective stewards
Glasgow, United Kingdom, 02 November 2021 (IUCN) – Today at the World Leaders Summit at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 26th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP26), a landmark announcement was made by a coalition of governments and stakeholders across…
Story | 01 Nov, 2021
Understanding the multiple benefits of area-based conservation
CEESP News: by Nigel Dudley and Sue Stolton, Equilibrium Research *
Under current proposals from the Convention on Biological Diversity, a target is likely to be set for 30% of the world’s land surface to be set aside into protected and conserved areas. Over 60 countries have pledged to…
Story | 31 Oct, 2021
Climate-resilient action plan - for Drylands
CEESP News: by A Amarender Reddy, Centre Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, India *
Land degradation, water scarcity, poverty, and hunger are major problems faced in drylands across the world. Drylands are degraded across continents due to over-cultivation,…
Story | 29 Oct, 2021
This International Black Sea Action Day, 31st October, 11 habitats of Red-List Endangered Black Sea harbour porpoises and bottlenose dolphins as well as Vulnerable Black Sea common dolphins have been formally awarded Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) status by the…
Story | 28 Oct, 2021
Primate experts from the IUCN and Re:wild release new study that finds even the most ambitious and cutting-edge offsets are not yet enough to effectively protect Critically Endangered chimpanzees
Story | 27 Oct, 2021
The black jaguar and the guardian of the forest
CEESP News: By Maycon Melo, PhD, and Barbara Arisi, PhD *
In Brazil, a group of hunters killed a black jaguar. Not satisfied with the crime of killing an endangered animal, they made a video where one of them shows the magnificent animal between his arms while threatening the Guardians…
Blog | 25 Oct, 2021
Supporting youth in solving the taxonomic impediment
Blog — All forms of conservation rely on taxonomy, the scientific field concerned with identifying and classification of organisms. Nowadays, the conservation field is facing a dearth of taxonomists and taxonomic knowledge opening up the possibility of “many species are going extinct before they…