News | 25 Apr, 2024
Washington DC, April 25, 2024 — Four new projects are addressing gender-based violence in the context of climate and conservation action through funding from the Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge across Central America, Eastern and Southern Africa and…
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 | 15 Oct, 2020
As climate change impacts intensify across the globe, the prevalence of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation, also known as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), has also been increasing, with various actors including governments, private sector, non-governmental organisations and community…
Story | 22 Jul, 2020
Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Indigenous Peoples Representative to the U.N., Speaks With GlacierHub
CEESP News: by RADHIKA GOYAL, of GlacierHub; undergraduate in Economics and Computer Science, Columbia College
Story | 27 Mar, 2020
Four countries in the Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI) celebrated World Wetlands Day 2020, hosting events to educate local communities and youth about the ecosystem benefits and importance of wetlands at local and global levels. National governments in…
Story | 13 Jan, 2020
On 24 December, IUCN, in collaboration with the Provincial Department of Environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia held a Climate Change Adaptation Planning validation workshop with local communities and government agencies. Building upon a two-day meeting…
Story | 19 Nov, 2019
10-day workshop in Cambodia further strengthens capacity of national wetlands managers
From 14 to 23 October, the Mekong Wetlands University Network (MWUN) organised a workshop to strengthen the management capacity of wetlands officials in Cambodia. 33 participants, including Ramsar site and wetland managers, local rangers and…
Story | 07 Nov, 2019
Islamabad, Pakistan, 6 November 2019 -The 7th International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Asia Regional Conservation Forum – one of Asia’s most important nature conservation events - kicked-off today with a strong focus on convening a…
Story | 31 Oct, 2019
Establishing ecosystem-based adaptation strategies to tackle climate change at Cambodian Ramsar site
IUCN and the Department of Freshwater and Wetlands Conservation of the Ministry of Environment and the Provincial Department of the Environment, Koh Kong Province recently organised a final climate change adaptation-planning…
Story | 15 Oct, 2019
Highlighting climate change impacts on Cambodian wetlands through citizen journalism
Thirty community members and wetland managers from three Mekong WET focal sites in Cambodia recently attended a citizen journalism training workshop in Koh Kong City. Conducted by IUCN, in collaboration with Apsara TV, a national media outlet,…