Story | 12 Mar, 2020
Inspiring Youth to be the Young Ambassadors for Nature
IUCN India in collaboration with Ecoroots Foundation organised an interactive workshop on nest building with the young minds of K. R. Mangalam Global School, New Delhi
Story | 11 Mar, 2020
Sikkim Workshop on Resilient Himalayan Environment and Community
Under Coping with Uncertainties project (CwU), IUCN organized one day state level workshop entitled “Building Resilient Himalayan Environment & Community” on 21st February 2020 at Gangtok, Sikkim.
Story | 25 Nov, 2019
Tangled roots and changing tides: law at the service of mangrove conservation and sustainable use
A pioneering global study details the legal and institutional frameworks governing mangroves and proposes solutions to address gaps and weaknesses identified.
Story | 19 Sep, 2019
India is one of 17 mega-biodiverse countries in the world, and has many conservation success stories to record and share. The WII-organised one day workshop, designed to teach PANORAMA, resulted in 8 valuable 'solution' case studies, mainly targeting protected areas from the Ganga river to the…
Story | 19 Mar, 2019
Revival of Traditional Watermills in Indian Himalaya
Access to low cost clean energy is vital to the development of Himalayan villages and the management of mountain landscape. Under the Government of India’s National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS), IUCN is implementing the ‘Coping with Uncertainties: Building Community Resilience and…
Story | 11 Mar, 2019
CEESP News: By Stan Stevens and Neema Pathak Broome, ICCA Consortium
Story | 30 Nov, 2018
New report lays groundwork for benefit sharing in Meghna River Basin
IUCN’s Building River Dialogue and Governance (BRIDGE) Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) project has developed a profile and preliminary scoping study on Benefit sharing opportunities in the Meghna Basin for Bangladesh and India. The document is the first of its kind to address the lack of…
Story | 21 Nov, 2018
Sometimes, you just need to let nature take its course
Growing over an estimated area of over half a million hectares, mangrove coverage in Myanmar is the second largest in Asia after Indonesia. These mangroves provide food, shelter and livelihoods to millions of delta and coastal dwellers in…
Story | 09 Nov, 2018
By Stefano Burchi - The High Court of Bombay at Goa refers to and relies upon the Brasília Declaration of Judges on Water Justice in litigation disputing a land use planning administrative decision.
Story | 05 Oct, 2018
Shaping the future: Indo-Burma’s wetlands experts rework Ramsar Regional Strategic Plan
Members and partners of the Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI), including government representatives, academics, international organisation partners of Ramsar and others, gathered in Yangon in late July to workshop the IBRRI Strategic Plan for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and…