Story | 20 Jul, 2010
Indigenous peoples and REDD-plus
Challenges and opportunities for the engagement of indigenous peoples and local communities in REDD-plus
Story | 11 Jul, 2010
Bringing back the Eastern Great Bustards
Story | 08 Jul, 2010
North America's Northern Great Plains
Restoring one of the world’s premier grassland ecosystems
Story | 08 Jul, 2010
A home for the Dauria's rare creatures
Story | 08 Jul, 2010
One billion hectares of lost forests could be restored
“Across the globe lie more than a billion hectares of lost and degraded forest land that could be restored”, according to the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration, which includes IUCN. It’s a vast area – an area greater than China – with the potential to enrich communities, their…
Story | 16 Jun, 2010
arborvitae Issue 41 - Forest finance
Forest finance
Livelihoods and landscapes: So far, the expectations of PES as a market-based solution for conservation and development have not been met. Feature: Do public goods always have to remain public? REDD: We cannot wait to act on REDD-plus. Local forests: Why, despite…Press release | 27 May, 2010
Mass mortality among saigas in Kazakhstan: 12,000 dead
Nearly 12,000 Critically Endangered saiga antelopes have been found dead over the last week in the Ural population in western Kazakhstan.
Press release | 22 May, 2010
Wetland aliens cause bird extinction
BirdLife International announces today, in an update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ for birds, the extinction of Alaotra Grebe Tachybaptus rufolavatus. Restricted to a tiny area of east Madagascar, this species declined rapidly after carnivorous fish were introduced to the lakes in…
Story | 20 May, 2010
Guidelines for Development of a National Ballast Water Management Strategy
GloBallast Monograph Series No.18