Story | 14 Aug, 2017
Communities for Whale Shark Conservation - A success story from Gujarat, India
CEESP NEWS - By Indu Kumari & Sajan John, Wildlife Trust of India
Story | 10 Aug, 2017
The Chairs of CEESP seek nominations/expressions of interest for the position of Regional Vice Chair in Meso and South America. Candidates for the Regional Vice Chair should preferably be familiar with CEESP, the Meso and South America and be committed to working cross-sectorally across…
Story | 14 Jun, 2017
Teams of lawyers from around the world came together in Cebu last week to discuss an ambitious new initiative to improve implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The lawyers, from universities in Australia, Brazil, China, New Zealand, South Africa, the Solomon Islands and…
Story | 08 Mar, 2017
Empowering women in water management - International Women's Day 2017
IUCN is committed to gender equality. To support International Women's Day, the Water Programme compiled some of their most recent efforts to empower women in decisions and actions for sustainable water management.
Story | 10 Feb, 2017
People in Nature: 2016 highlights and next phase
CEESP News - by Seline Meijer
People in Nature (PiN) is an IUCN knowledge basket being developed by CEESP and the Global Economics and Social Science Programme in the IUCN Secretariat. PiN provides a process of systematic data collection, analysis and documentation for landscape level…
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
Bayesian Networks for modeling conservation impacts
CEESP News
By Cory W. Whitney
The application of alternative modeling approaches could be expanded to help bridge the social and biological strengths of the IUCN to help promote both conservation and livelihoods. By combining the features of several participatory…
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
2016: an eventful year for SULi
CEESP News -
By Dr Rosie Cooney, SULi Chair and Dr Rebecca Cross, SULi Programme Office
2016 was a very eventful year for the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) members, who attended - in force - key international meetings to forward the ever-increasing…
Story | 02 Dec, 2016
Tackling wildlife trafficking through the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Recognising the significant and detrimental economic, environmental, security-related, and social impacts of the illegal trade in wildlife, 42 countries adopted the Hanoi Statement on Illegal Wildlife Trade on 17 November 2016. The Statement that was adopted at the Hanoi Conference on illegal…
Story | 03 Aug, 2016
Tell us your water story and win a prize
Are you working in conservation? In forest, marine, climate change areas or others? Has water made an unexpected appearance in your work? Then we are looking for your story.
Story | 14 Apr, 2016
Exposing illegal trade in elephant tusks
Following a seizure of ivory, a suspected illegal trader has been sentenced to imprisonment. Paul de Ornellas of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), a grantee with IUCN’s SOS initiative, explains how ZSL helped expose the crime.