Story | 05 Jul, 2022
New blue carbon partnership for Western Indian Ocean mangrove reforestation
As part of the Great Blue Wall initiative, designed to accelerate ocean conservation and regenerative economic development in the Western Indian Ocean, IUCN and Blue Forest Company used the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon to announce a new blue carbon partnership, with work beginning in Mozambique…
Page | 30 Jun, 2022
Protected Areas Network Review for Palestine
The project aims at reviewing and updating the protected areas network in Palestine using systematic conservation planning principles and CBD PA design criteria to result in a connected, representative, efficient, and climate-resilient network of protected areas. The project conducted an…
Page | 29 Jun, 2022
Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
Although countries across Asia region differ widely, the confluence of poverty and inequality, dependence on natural resources, rapidly growing populations, and governance challenges make the region particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Rising sea levels and saline intrusion…
Story | 24 Jun, 2022
Murree Kahuta Kotli Sattian, National Park Management Plan validated by the stakeholders
A one-day workshop on MKKS National Parks management plan validation was held at the Pearl Continental hotel in Bhurban, Murree, as part of the KAROT, Biodiversity Management Plan Implementation Project.
News | 23 Jun, 2022
How best to enable communities to adapt to salinity affecting Pakistan’s coastal and irrigated agriculture areas was the focus of a workshop in Karachi recently, organised at the mid-term point of the ongoing Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin (ASSIB) project, funded by the…
Story | 22 May, 2022
The International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated to mark the importance of biodiversity on earth.
The theme for the year 2022 is “Building a shared future for all life”. The slogan was chosen to continue building momentum and support for the post-2020 global biodiversity…
Publication | 2022
A solution package for plastic pollution – from measurement to action
Knowledge gathered over the past four years in the IUCN Close the Plastic Tap programme is the basis of this publication.
Story | 25 Mar, 2022
IUCN Pakistan appoints its first ever Youth Ambassador for Environment in Gilgit Baltistan
Ms. Mahnoor Saleh, “Pride of Pakistan awardee on 23rd March, 2022” and pride of Mountains has been appointed as IUCN Pakistan’s first ever Youth Ambassador for Environment in Gilgit Baltistan, recognizing her efforts to break the taboos and become a professional female winter sports player. She…
Story | 09 Mar, 2022
UNEA Resolution - ‘End Plastic Pollution’ - and IUCN role in implementation of the Treaty
The new UNEA Resolution, ‘End Plastic Pollution: Towards a legally binding instrument’, establishes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee that will develop the specific content of the new plastic pollution treaty with the aim of completing its work by the end…