Story | 12 Oct, 2021
The Bonn Challenge/ECCA30 initiative welcomes three new pledges from the region
Three new regional Bonn Challenge pledges were announced today at the Ministerial Meeting on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and the ECCA30/Bonn Challenge in Eastern and South-East Europe organised by FAO and UNECE, in cooperation with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN…
Story | 24 Sep, 2021
Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin project launched in Karachi
The launch of the ‘Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin (ASSIB’) project, funded by the Australian government through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), took place at a local hotel in Karachi today by way of a stakeholder inception workshop…
Story | 26 Jul, 2021
Mangroves are known as the sentinels of the coast, and Pakistan is blessed to have a growing mangrove cover along its 990 kilometer coast and creeks of the Indus Delta. These mangroves have a very close relation to the humans inhabiting the coast, whose lives they enrich by providing them marine…
Story | 26 Jul, 2021
Women hold up half the sky…. This is usually said when someone needs to be reminded of the important role they play in life. As a matter of fact, due to the gender roles assigned to them by the society, they shoulder more than half the responsibilities which include the work outside the limited…
Story | 14 Jul, 2021
The experts at national stakeholder consultation on July 13, 2021 demanded to create massive stakeholder and policymakers’ level sensitization for implementing effective Gender Action Plan aimed at supporting women of vulnerable communities facing livelihood loss due to environmental degradation…
Story | 13 Jul, 2021
IUCN has been working with UNHCR since 2018 to mitigate human-elephant conflict (HEC) around the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar through Rohingya Elephant Response.
Story | 29 Jun, 2021
The first-ever knowledge forum on the Meghna river basin, shared by Bangladesh and India, concluded on Thursday, 24 June. More than 100 participants from across the Meghna basin joined the forum. The three-day forum laid the foundation of a multi-…
Story | 28 Jun, 2021
IUCN Bangladesh in collaboration with Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) organized a webinar on "Policy Reforms for Transformative Changes for Protection of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services".
Story | 04 Jun, 2021
IUCN Member Organisations and Partners gathered at Keti Bunder – the Guinness World Record site to commemorate World Environment Day 2021. Senator (r) Javed Jabbar, former IUCN Vice President and Regional Councillor Asia was the chief guest at…
Story | 28 May, 2021
Space Lens for Transformational Change
By Ning Li - SpaceX has made numerous eyebrow-raising headlines in the past 10-15 years - that does not look likely to change.