Grey literature | 2023
Restoration following a major disaster
Independent Scientific and Technical Advisory Panels (ISTAPs) have been established to help address a range of controversial conservation and development issues that have emerged with growing frequency and complexity at national and global levels.
Brochure | 2022
IUCN SADC Transfrontier Conservation Area Financing Facility Fact Sheet
The SADC TFCA Financing Facility (TFCA FF) is a regional fund established to provide sustainable funding for conservation and management actions in Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The Facility is managed by IUCN – Eastern and…
Story | 10 Apr, 2023
IUCN Director General’s mission to Brazil to reinforce conservation efforts
Brasilia, March 2023 - IUCN Director General Dr Bruno Oberle went on mission to Brazil to meet with the government and other key stakeholders and agree how to work together to address critical environmental issues affecting the country.
Factsheet | 2020
Fact Sheet - Impacts of the Fundão dam failure
Brief presentation of the main topics approached by the Rio Doce Panel Thematic Report 1 - Impacts of the Fundão Dam failure: a pathway to sustainable and resilient mitigation. In the first of a series of publications, the independent Rio Doce Panel gives its views and recommendations for moving…
Story | 22 Dec, 2022
News | 01 Feb, 2023
CMS VATAVARAN Festival & Forum on Climate Action and Biodiversity Conservation celebrated in Bhutan
From 2-7 November 2022, the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) in collaboration with the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) and Canadian High Commission to India, Bhutan & Nepal organized the first-ever Festival and Forum on Climate Action and Biodiversity Conservation …
Story | 01 Feb, 2023
SADC TFCA Financing Facility - stories from the front lines
The year 2022 brought hope for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time since the establishment of the Facility in 2020, travel opened up across borders, increasing momentum for the implementation of projects in Transfrontier Conservation Areas, including the TFCA Financing…
Story | 01 Feb, 2023
26 potential sites of conservation interest identified in Libya with support of the GEF MedProgramme
Last 26th January IUCN-Med in collaboration with SPA/RAC and WWF-North Africa organised a national workshop in Tripoli with the support of the Nature Conservation Department of the Libyan Ministry of Environment. The goal of the workshop was to present the results of the field survey conducted…
Story | 16 Dec, 2022
Rio Doce Panel debates the restoration challenges in the Fundão Dam Science Meeting
The second Fundão Dam Rupture Science Meeting was held from 21–22 September in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, aimed at sharing technical information about the consequences of the rupture of the Fundão dam and the recovery processes of the Rio Doce Basin.
News | 29 Nov, 2022
A collaborative document addresses the challenge of turning data and information into knowledge to support decisions about the region's recovery