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…
Press release | 07 Oct, 2009
A successful and productive workshop that brought together 83 people from 43 countries from 6 continents. 20 different international organisations were represented along with three IUCN commissions – the World Commission on Protected Areas, Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy…
Story | 04 Oct, 2009
Sylvia Earle and IUCN Invite World Leaders to Celebrate and Extend Ocean Protection
Today legendary underwater explorer and ocean ambassador Sylvia Earle teamed up with IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas in a historic move to send individual letters to 106 world leaders inviting them to join Sylvia in her wish to better protect the world’s oceans.
Story | 01 Oct, 2009
The Value of Parks : Inspire, refresh, conserve, protect, play
The human species has evolved from, and been nurtured by, the natural environment – we are a biological product of the earth itself. This deep connection is one that we must all remember. Our parks are the storehouse of our past and, more importantly, of our future.