Story | 18 Apr, 2023
Agriculture and fisheries stakeholders in Senegal ready to act for biodiversity
As part of the BIODEV2030 project, IUCN Senegal deployed an innovative mobilisation approach to catalyse voluntary commitments from economic actors for biodiversity. After seven participatory workshops held in October and November 2022, 14…
Story | 29 Mar, 2023
AFRIPAC: strengthening 5 countries' commitments to a UN Plastics Treaty
As the world moves towards an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, IUCN and GRID-Arendal partner in a new project: AFRIPAC, "Effective Plastic Treaty Capacity Building for Africa." This project aims to empower five African nations´ negotiating skills for a strong…
Story | 02 Dec, 2022
From 29 November to 3 December, the beneficiary associations of the "TransCap" programme are meeting in Morocco to foster cooperation on climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. TransCap, funded by the General Directorate for Cooperation of the Balearic Islands and coordinated…
News | 28 Nov, 2022
Innsbruck Nature Film Festival promotes art and nature education to a diverse audience
The 21st edition of Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (INFF), in partnership with the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), took place in Tyrol, Austria between October 15-18, 2022. IUCN CEC member and INFF Founder & Director, Mr. Johannes Kostenzer and IUCN CEC Regional Vice…
Story | 13 Sep, 2022
‘Strategy games’ in Senegal engage economic actors in reconciling biodiversity and development
Since May 2020, IUCN has been working closely with Senegal's National Focal Point of the Convention on Biological Diversity to create an ambitious and shared vision for biodiversity and sustainable development, as part of BIODEV2030. The project is engaging all stakeholders, and particularly the…
Page | 01 Aug, 2022
IUCN ROWA 09th Regional Conservation Forum (RCF)
IUCN ROWA 09th Regional Conservation Forum (RCF)
Course/training
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature/ The Regional Office for West Asia and in collaboration with the Environment Protection Authority EPA in Kuwait were organizing a training workshop on “Documenting and monitoring ecosystems using Geographic Information Systems and Remote…
Page | 29 Jun, 2022
Monitoring and Documentation of Biodiversity in Kuwait
The main purpose of this project is to document all the biodiversity elements in the State of Kuwait based on collecting previous records and updating the biodiversity components through selected field surveys. The project also aims at raising the capacity of the EPA staff in biodiversity…