Grey literature | 2018
Application of Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) in Asia
Story | 23 Nov, 2018
12 right answers to inclusive green growth
We asked a dozen people to talk about inclusive green growth in Mozambique and Tanzania. Each had a slightly different take on the definition, but they all acknowledged that it is a landscape-wide process towards environmentally and socially…
Story | 28 Aug, 2018
Scoring the restoring: An assessment of contributions to forest landscape restoration in Uganda
Uganda's forest landscapes are precious in so many ways, but the country continues to lose its important forest assets at an unprecedented rate. In recent years, forest landscape restoration has been in place to help reverse that trend. So how is it going?
Story | 12 Jan, 2018
The conservation and livelihoods power of a community fund in Uganda
The Community Environment Conservation Fund (CECF) is a conservation benefits sharing model developed and implemented by IUCN to address immediate community livelihood needs through a credit scheme. This in turn motivates and empowers communities to responsibly utilise and manage natural…
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 | 16 Nov, 2016
10th Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots held in China
The 10th Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots, hosted by the Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences (BC-CAS) and co-organised by the Ecological Society of Beijing, took place on 14 October. Funded by CAS, the event had over 170 participants, including five from Taiwan.…
Story | 07 Jul, 2016
CEPF launches new call for proposals in the Indo-Burma hotspot
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) has launched a call for proposals for small grant projects in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam and parts of Southern China. A separate call for proposals for large grant projects in Myanmar has also been issued…
Story | 22 Jun, 2016
Teaching the teachers: Improved nature education in Lu Chun County
Huanglianshan National Nature Reserve, located in Lu Chun County, southeastern Yunnan, was established in 1983 as a provincial reserve and promoted to a national reserve in 2003. To strengthen the link between the nature reserve and local communities, the Zoological Society of Yunnan…