Story | 02 Dec, 2009
The Future of PoWPA Workshop Report
A report on the IUCN-led workshop on the future of the CBD Programme of work on Protected Areas, Jeju Island, South Korea. The workshop focused on ways to address the new challenges to protected areas, including climate change.
Press release | 01 Dec, 2009
Ernesto Enkerlin 2009
Story | 26 Nov, 2009
What are Global Temperate Grasslands worth? A case for their protection
A Review of Current Research on their Total Economic Value
Press release | 26 Nov, 2009
Billion hectares of forests with potential for restoration, study shows
Land areas around the world, bigger than Canada, have been identified as having potential to be restored to good quality, healthy forests, a new study has found.
Press release | 26 Nov, 2009
Next World Conservation Congress will be in the Republic of Korea
The 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress will be held in Jeju, in the Republic of Korea, the IUCN Council decided in its 73rd regular meeting.
Press release | 25 Nov, 2009
Working Towards High Seas Biodiversity Conservation
The open oceans and deep seas represent 95 percent of the global biosphere in volume, play an important regulating role in the Earth’s climate and are home to a major part of the world’s biodiversity. However, mounting pressures from intensifying human uses, climate change and ocean…
Press release | 15 Nov, 2009
Ocean carbon central to climate challenge
World leaders should recognize the immense potential of the ocean to reduce global warming by capturing carbon, if we are to avoid a serious climate crisis.
Story | 12 Nov, 2009
The Management of Natural Coastal Carbon Sinks
Story | 20 Oct, 2009
Finding Protected Area Funding Solutions
IUCN discusses protected areas funding with the Lao PDR government and non-governmental organisations.
Story | 19 Oct, 2009
Advancing the National Park Idea
National parks today serve purposes and provide benefits far broader than were envisioned for them a century ago. They also face threats to their survival not imagined in the beginning. But their mission remains fundamentally important to America, and grows ever more vital as ecological and…