Story | 17 May, 2022
IAIA'22: Building trust and engagement through impact assessment
The Rio Doce Panel and IUCN Secretariat participation at IAIA'22
Story | 06 May, 2022
Monitoring, evaluation, and learning in the Rio Doce Panel
A strategy to comprehensively assess the direct and indirect influence of the Panel's recommendations on the reparation of the Rio Doce Basin
Story | 03 May, 2022
Integrated approaches and Nature-based solutions for the restoration of degraded landscapes
Recommendations from the Rio Doce Panel on the restoration of the Basin affected by the failure of a mining tailings dam
Story | 21 Apr, 2022
Alcoa Foundation, IUCN partner to support critical research on ecosystem restoration
PITTSBURGH, April 21, 2022—Alcoa Foundation today announced a partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to investigate how ecosystem restoration projects can successfully contribute to biodiversity and community benefits under different environmental and social…
Story | 09 Mar, 2022
UNEA Resolution - ‘End Plastic Pollution’ - and IUCN role in implementation of the Treaty
The new UNEA Resolution, ‘End Plastic Pollution: Towards a legally binding instrument’, establishes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee that will develop the specific content of the new plastic pollution treaty with the aim of completing its work by the end…
Story | 14 Feb, 2022
Assessing the impacts of the Fundão dam failure on coastal and marine environments
Experts gather in five workshop sessions to discuss the coastal and marine impacts caused by the Fundão dam collapse in 2015.
Story | 31 Jan, 2022
Harnessing Independent Scientific Advice to Reconcile Conservation and Economic Development Goals
*Article by Gerard Bos and Steve Edwards
Story | 28 Jan, 2022
So far, UNESCO has designated 1154 World Heritage Sites, 169 Global Geoparks, and 727 Biosphere Reserves. Among them, there are nearly 200 sites that hold two of these three designations, and 8 sites with all three designations. Huangshan is one of these eight. These sites are outstanding…
Story | 28 Jan, 2022
The Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus), the world’s rarest primate and the most endangered among all gibbon species in the world, rated as Critically Endangered by IUCN. With less than 10 individuals remaining in the 1980s, the population has risen to 35 in 2021. The conservation of Hainan gibbon…
Story | 11 Jan, 2022
Meet inspiring PANORAMA Solution Providers: Yan Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Opening a space for PANORAMA Solutions Providers, to express their perceptions and perspectives on global issues. We aim at valuing their knowledge and know-how as well as collecting their recommendations and needs for upscaling and accelerating the impacts of their solution. We want to discuss…