Story | 27 Sep, 2022
Gender Equality: A Strategy for Conserving Coastal Biodiversity in Central America
IUCN, with support from USAID, is implementing a conservation project in sites of high coastal biodiversity in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, with a focus on social inclusion, to strengthen community governance of natural resources in contexts free of gender-based violence.
Story | 10 Oct, 2022
“Cash for work” mechanism for the empowerment of community tourism in Peru
Planeterra and IUCN SUR co-implement the "Cash for Work" mechanism in Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (a Green Listed site) and Río Abiseo National Park (a Green List candidate site) to ensure direct benefits for local people and help their post-COVID recovery through tourism. All the work…
Story | 10 Aug, 2022
IUCN and their implementing partner Planeterra developed, together with 10 communities of 2 protected areas, their first Action Plans on Tourism and started training on Ecotourism Products.
Page | 27 Jul, 2022
Sustainable Dryland Landscapes in Africa & the Middle East
Jordan was selected as one of three country sites where this global project will be implemented; namely Kenya and Burkina Faso. The three-year-project,aiming at greater policy implementation in support of Sustainable Land Management in the drylands of participating countries.
Page | 08 Aug, 2022
Mainstreaming Sustainable Land Management Practices
Jordan was selected to implement a six-year-project, aiming at demonstrating and scaling-up successful sustainable land management practices for the control and prevention of desertification and deforestation.
Page | 17 Jul, 2022
Mainstreaming Biodiversity in the Sylvo-pastoral and Rangeland Landscapes in Al Sharah
Jordan was selected to implement a project, aiming at integrating participatory community planning and poverty reduction activities in parallel to biodiversity conservation activities.
Page | 08 Aug, 2022
Participatory Consultation and Drafting of the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP)
Description and relevancy of work:The duration of the project lasted three months, during which, the project focused on the parts of the overall studies that are implemented by the national consultants, apart from inputs of the national consultants to other parts of the NAP.…
Page | 03 Jul, 2022
Ziglab Dam feeds many of the northern Ghor plantations. Its main source is a cold river coming from the village of Marhaba. The river has many pools and waterfalls and slides. The area is an immigrant bird resting station and archaeologists have found many Neolithic and iron age artefacts there…