Story | 11 Oct, 2017
Call for UN to Recognize and Protect the Ocean’s Rights
CEESP News - by Fiona Wilton, The Gaia Foundation / OCC-Uruguay
The ocean covers seventy percent of our planet, generates over fifty percent of the oxygen, regulates climate, and provides food and jobs for millions of people. Yet human activities have led to a global decline in marine…
Story | 06 Oct, 2017
Raising and integrating the cultural values of the Ocean
CEESP News - Elise Huffer, Pacific Community
The Pacific Ocean is a living, breathing cultural space which provides meaning to communities living in its islands. Culture is not separate from marine resource management; communities draw on it every day to manage their resources and yet…
Press release | 22 Jun, 2017
Gland, Switzerland – IUCN former President, globally recognised environmentalist Yolanda Kakabadse, will Chair the new IUCN independent scientific and technical advisory panel on the restoration of the Rio Doce watershed in Brazil, following the 2015 collapse of the Fundão tailings dam at the…
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 | 25 Aug, 2016
Five outstanding individuals in three natural World Heritage sites have been shortlisted as Heritage Heroes for their exceptional work in protecting some of the world's most precious natural areas.
Discover their inspiring stories and decide who will get your vote!
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 | 28 Jul, 2016
Interview with Aroha Te Pareake Mead, IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
This interview originally appeared on World Heritage, the official UNESCO publication from the World Heritage Centre, as part of a special edition on the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Aroha Te Pareake Mead is from the Ngati Awa and Ngati Porou Maori tribes of Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is a…
Story | 22 Jun, 2016
New Publication: Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability
Despite a proliferation of legal instruments related to the environment, environmental challenges such as ecosystem degradation, climate change and species loss continue to accelerate. At local, national and global scales, environmental legal systems are not consistently achieving the goals for…
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.