Story | 02 Jun, 2020
The Punjab Urial roams freely in and beyond Padhri Game Reserve, and across the Salt Range hills of Western Jhelum, in the Punjab District, Pakistan. The Urial (Ovis orientalis punjabiensis) is rare outside well-protected landscapes, along with other rare mammals and bird species such as…
Story | 29 May, 2020
Tributes to José Rafael García Acosta
IUCN Protected Areas joins the Venezuelan members of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and the entire community of Venezuela's Protected Areas in mourning for the death of agronomist José Rafael García Acosta (1926-2020), founder of the Venezuelan National Park Service and its…
Story | 25 May, 2020
Conserving Nature in a time of crisis: Protected Areas and COVID-19
Many of the threats facing biodiversity and protected areas will be exacerbated during, and following, the Covid-19 outbreak. The health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected. An expanding agricultural frontier and human incursions into natural areas for logging, mining and other…
Story | 13 May, 2020
Blue Finance builds an alliance to monetise and more effectively protect Marine Protected Areas
A key obstacle to effectively managing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is a lack of economic resources, but at the Oriental Mindoro MPA in the Philippines, a consortium of dedicated partners is turning one of the world`s most productive ecosystems…
IUCN Statement | 30 Apr, 2020
IUCN deplores the brutal killing of 17 people in Virunga National Park
IUCN is deeply shocked by the tragic loss of 12 park rangers, a staff driver and four civilians close to Virunga National Park, following an attack by armed militia on 24 April. One of the world’s most biodiversity-rich areas and home to the last remaining mountain gorillas, Virunga is Africa’s…
Story | 30 Apr, 2020
A new wave of IUCN Green List commitments in the Amazon to help COVID recovery for rural and indigenous communities and their vital ecosystems.
Story | 30 Apr, 2020
COVID-19 International Park Managers Expert Panel
On 3rd April, members of IUCN and WCPA participated in an on-line international panel discussion with park and protected area managers from around the world to have a high level dialogue on the response to the COVID-19 health situation.
Story | 29 Apr, 2020
Frontier Diaries: nature in a time of COVID-19
Building a network of local contributors and grassroots storytellers, and involve our global audience in guiding us and sending us footage and information about what is happening all across the protected areas community.
Story | 29 Apr, 2020
What works, works! Measuring the quality and effectiveness of protected and conserved areas
Consultations toward the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework are well under way, and Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity are engaged in understanding what progress has occurred during the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity through the implementation of the…
Story | 29 Apr, 2020
IUCN’s Protected Area Governance and Management book achieves 100,000 downloads
Within five years of its launch, the English version of IUCN’s Protected Area Governance and Management compendium textbook has reached the remarkable statistic of 100,000 downloads across 87 countries. This milestone has been made possible through IUCN…