Story | 26 Jan, 2024
Navigating the Bay of Bengal through collaboration: BOBLME II sets sail
In a significant step toward safeguarding the marine ecosystem in South and Southeast Asia, the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project Phase II (BOBLME II) officially kicked off with an inception workshop held from 12 – 14 December 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. With funding from the Global…
Story | 15 Dec, 2023
Fostering private land as beacon of hope for threatened species in Sri Lanka
Kelani Valley Plantations PLC, a leading manufacturer of tea and rubber, has partnered with IUCN Sri Lanka to develop a conservation project, fostering a privately managed landscape as a beacon of hope for globally threatened species and ecosystems found outside of protected areas. The primary…
Story | 18 Oct, 2023
Report on the state of the Gulf of Mottama
Since 2015, IUCN and the Network Activities Group (NAG) have been part of a HELVETAS-led consortium implementing the SDC Gulf of Mottama Project. The project supports sustainable natural resource management in one of the world’s largest areas of turbid water. Nourished by four large rivers,…
Story | 04 Sep, 2023
Forest Landscape Restoration experience of HSBC volunteers in Sri Lanka
The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), a global bank, has worked with IUCN since 2010 on different initiatives. The latest is the ‘Climate-Smart Opportunities through Restoration and Education (CORE)’ project in Sri Lanka commenced in 2021 to address both climate change and…
External event
World Water Week is the leading conference on global water issues, held every year since 1991. For the first time the event will be hosted at a new onsite venue at Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm between 20 – 24 August.
Online participation is free of charge this year, sign up…
Story | 05 Jul, 2023
A watershed moment: reintroducing 30,000 juveniles of endangered Redfin labeo in Sri Lanka
On the occasion of International Biodiversity Day on 22 May 2023, IUCN Sri Lanka Office co-organised an event with the Ministry of Environment (MoE) to release an initial stock of 3,200 out of 30,000 captive-bred juveniles of Redfin labeo back into their native habitats. The release took place…
News | 16 Mar, 2023
Ansell Joins Hands with IUCN to Work Towards Understanding and Minimising Biodiversity Impact
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 16 March 2023: Ansell Limited, a global leader in protection solutions, and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 23 February 2023, embarking on critical work to map out a pathway for Ansell to develop a…
Story | 27 Feb, 2023
Economic valuation of ecosystems in the Gulf of Mottama
The triangle-shaped Gulf of Mottama, situated in southern Myanmar, is home to one of the world’s most dynamic intertidal systems. The extreme turbidity is produced by the delivery of 350 million tonnes per year of sediment from four large rivers, a tidal bore that moves at 3 metres per second,…
Story | 20 Feb, 2023
Annual shorebird monitoring in the Gulf of Mottama
The intertidal mud flats of the Gulf of Mottama, situated in southern Myanmar, are wintering grounds for 150,000-200,000 migratory shorebirds, including the critically endangered Spoon-billed sandpipers (Calidris pygmaea…