Story | 22 May, 2024
Volunteers fill the gap for nature education in Southern China
“An ordinary bird became extraordinary.” Xiaoyan, a 26-year-old volunteer in Guanzhou, China, still remembers the time when she first looked through her teacher’s spotting scope at a kingfisher, whose blue feathers looked like “its body was inlaid with sapphires.” That moment, when she was just 1
Story | 10 Jan, 2022
Bangkok, Thailand, 13 December 2021: Siam City Cement Group (SCCC Group) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) extended their partnership for another three years at a signing…
Story | 27 Dec, 2021
China launches new guidelines for coastal ecosystems to enhance disaster risk reduction
In 2018, the highest decision-making body on financial and economic issues in China mandated competent authorities to implement coastal conservation and restoration projects through the use of Nature-based Solutions to keep resilient…
Press release | 16 Dec, 2021
IUCN report identifies sites with World Heritage potential in Himalaya and beyond
Gland, Switzerland, 16 December 2021 (IUCN) – A new report lists seven broad areas in the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram mountain ranges where new natural World Heritage sites could be found. It also identifies possible extensions of existing World Heritage sites,…
Story | 16 Nov, 2021
Throughout 2021, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) collaborated with local and national government agencies and community members surrounding Boeung Prek Lapouv Protected Landscape to restore flooded forests and seasonally inundated…
Story | 10 Sep, 2021
Community-level responses to ‘forest violence’ in Cambodia
Excerpt from the special issue of the CEESP publication Policy Matters, focusing on the stories and voices of environmental defenders. Article by Hollie Grant and Philippe Le Billon*
Story | 30 May, 2021
Supported by a small grant from the Mekong WET project, the Culture and Environment Preservation Association (CEPA) in Cambodia is supporting local managers to enhance fisheries management in Stung Treng Ramsar Site. The “Mekong Broodstock…
Story | 24 Mar, 2021
Cambodia designates Boeung Snae as new wetlands protected area
On 5 February 2021, the Royal Government of Cambodia issued a sub-decree designating Toulpontalei – Boeung Snae Multiple Use Area.
Story | 31 Jan, 2021
Community Conservation Area volunteers safeguard 5,000 wintering Oriental Storks in Tianjin, China
CEESP News: by Linda Wong, Jinfeng Zhou and Xiaohong Yang, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation
The coastal city of Tianjin witnessed about 5,000 Oriental storks wintering in 2020, almost doubling the population from previous years. However, the picture may…
Story | 03 Jun, 2020
CEESP News: by Jinfeng Zhou, Linda Wong, Charlotte Hong, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation*
Emergent e-commerce benefits peoples daily lives in numerous ways, but it has also made illegal wildlife trade easy and convenient. During COVID-19, Chinese civil…