Factsheet | 2020
Fact Sheet - Impacts of the Fundão dam failure
Brief presentation of the main topics approached by the Rio Doce Panel Thematic Report 1 - Impacts of the Fundão Dam failure: a pathway to sustainable and resilient mitigation. In the first of a series of publications, the independent Rio Doce Panel gives its views and recommendations for moving…
Story | 02 Mar, 2023
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Gonarezhou Conservation Trust in Zimbabwe have signed a new grant agreement for the Gonarezhou National Park Infrastructure Support Programme to be implemented for 3 years up to 2026.
Story | 22 Dec, 2022
Story | 01 Feb, 2023
SADC TFCA Financing Facility - stories from the front lines
The year 2022 brought hope for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time since the establishment of the Facility in 2020, travel opened up across borders, increasing momentum for the implementation of projects in Transfrontier Conservation Areas, including the TFCA Financing…
Story | 16 Dec, 2022
Rio Doce Panel debates the restoration challenges in the Fundão Dam Science Meeting
The second Fundão Dam Rupture Science Meeting was held from 21–22 September in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, aimed at sharing technical information about the consequences of the rupture of the Fundão dam and the recovery processes of the Rio Doce Basin.
News | 29 Nov, 2022
A collaborative document addresses the challenge of turning data and information into knowledge to support decisions about the region's recovery
Publication | 2022
The environmental impacts of a major mine tailings spill on coastal and marine environments
Based on the volume of tailings releases and the distance they travelled, the Fundão Dam failure in southeast Brazil (Mariana, Minas Gerais state) was the largest ever environmental disaster in Brazil’s mining industry, and one of the world’s most serious. As they dispersed downriver, the…
IUCN event
The session will showcase a number of tangible examples of what the Indo-Burma Wetland Outlook and wider work of IBBRI is already delivering, to demonstrate how to scale-up action, supporting Contracting Parties to fill the implementation gap.
IUCN event
2016 Rio de Janeiro International Environmental Law Conference
The 1st IUCN World Environmental Law Congress: Environmental Rule of Law, Justice and Planetary Sustainability convened from April 27-29 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil under the auspices of IUCN and UN Environment.
Jointly published | 2022
Saving our mangroves in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar
This report offers an overview of the work by the Save our Mangroves Now! (SOMN) initiative in the region to date, bringing together data on extent, loss and gains, and the socio-economic value of mangroves in the region, as well as governance challenges and policy opportunities. We hope this…