Story | 13 Mar, 2018
IUCN organises community workshop on organic farming for farmers in Uttarakhand, India
On 24 February 2018, 61 local farmers from six villages under the Mandal Gram Panchayat (village council) came together in Uttarakhand, India, for a community workshop on organic farming organised by IUCN under the project “Coping with…
Story | 22 Jan, 2018
Ushering a bright future for nature conservation in Cambodia
“People and nature can indeed live in harmony, and sustainable development is possible for our people” Dr. Srey Sunleang, NatureLife Cambodia.
Story | 14 Dec, 2017
Vulnerability and disaster risk assessment for Boeung Prek Lapouv protected landscape in Cambodia
From 4 to 8 September 2017, IUCN’s Mekong WET initiative conducted ‘vulnerability to disaster risk’ assessments (VDRAs), also known as ‘vulnerability assessments’ (VAs), to analyse the potential impacts of climate change on communities in the Boeung Prek Lapouv (BPL) Protected Landscape in Takeo…
Story | 11 Dec, 2017
Participatory scenario planning
By Ignacio Palomo
How can we manage a large protected area system with reduced public funding resources and new challenges arising from multiple drivers of change? This was the question that EUROPARC Spain, an institution that mobilises multiple stakeholders around protected areas in…
Story | 16 Nov, 2017
Planning for the future of Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary
Located on the coast of southwestern Cambodia, the Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary harbours one of the largest undisturbed mangrove forests in Southeast Asia. The sanctuary’s magnificent mangroves are anchored in the bays and channels that weave among the many islands, protecting the coastline…
Story | 02 Nov, 2017
Cooperative governance of the Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna Basins (GBM) region was strengthened through the recent launch of a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) vision for improved transboundary water management. The vision, which was developed by a network of over 25 CSOs from Bangladesh, Bhutan,…
Story | 18 Oct, 2017
Celebrating International Vulture Awareness Day - Tata Steel Zoological Park at Jamshedpur, India
CEESP News - by Dr Hishmi Jamil Husain, Head Environment & Forest Management, Tata Steel Limited
Story | 25 Sep, 2017
Regional Integrated Coastal Management training course extended to Cambodia
MFF’s long-standing regional Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) training course was successfully extended to national member countries. From 28 August to 1 September, the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) completed the first national level ICM course in Cambodia.
Blog | 21 Sep, 2017
What can climate change response teach us about human-elephant conflict management?
Apparently unrelated, there are some similarities between responding to climate change and managing human-elephant conflicts. To make human-elephant conflict obsolete in Bangladesh, its management could learn a few things from our responses to climate change, writes Haseeb Md. Irfanullah of IUCN…