Story | 11 Jan, 2022
UNESCO declares world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve along Mura-Drava-Danube
Stretching across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia, the world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve, which has been declared by UNESCO in September 2021 covers 700 km of the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers and a total area of almost 1 million hectares in the so-called ‘Amazon of Europe…
Press release | 16 Dec, 2021
IUCN report identifies sites with World Heritage potential in Himalaya and beyond
Gland, Switzerland, 16 December 2021 (IUCN) – A new report lists seven broad areas in the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram mountain ranges where new natural World Heritage sites could be found. It also identifies possible extensions of existing World Heritage sites,…
Story | 14 Dec, 2021
Panel Discussion – COP26 @ Ecosystem Restoration
Pakistan made a significant impact at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) held at Glasgow during 31 Oct - 12 Nov 2021, in this regard a post COP26 panel discussion was organized to provide an insight about the takeaway from the conference and to define the way ahead.
Story | 14 Dec, 2021
Nature-based Solutions as a response to climate change in Western Balkans
In cooperation with the Public Investment Management Office of the Government of the Republic of Serbia a working lunch for key partners in Serbia was organised to discuss the application of Nature-based Solutions aimed at…
Story | 18 Nov, 2021
National Workshop on MIS/Log-frame of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme concludes in Islamabad
A three- day National Workshop on Pakistan’s Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme (TBTTP) was concluded today in Islamabad. The workshop was jointly organized by Pakistan’s Ministry of Climate Change, KfW and the Third Party Monitoring Consortium. The Consortium comprised IUCN Pakistan, FAO…
Story | 15 Nov, 2021
National Workshop on MIS/Log-frame of the Ten Billion Trees Tsunami Programme kicks off in Islamabad
A 3-Day National Workshop on Ten Billion Trees Tsunami Programme (TBTTP) was inaugurated today in Islamabad. The workshop was jointly organized by the Ministry of Climate Change Government of Pakistan, KfW, and Third Party Monitoring Consortium: IUCN Pakistan, FAO Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan…
Story | 15 Oct, 2021
IUCN Introduces Climate Change Planning into Balochistan Government Ranks
A 5-Day Training Workshop concluded here today in Karachi, imparting key lessons and techniques in climate change adaptation and mitigation to officials from different line departments of the Balochistan Government.
Story | 12 Oct, 2021
The Bonn Challenge/ECCA30 initiative welcomes three new pledges from the region
Three new regional Bonn Challenge pledges were announced today at the Ministerial Meeting on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and the ECCA30/Bonn Challenge in Eastern and South-East Europe organised by FAO and UNECE, in cooperation with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN…
Story | 24 Sep, 2021
Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin project launched in Karachi
The launch of the ‘Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin (ASSIB’) project, funded by the Australian government through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), took place at a local hotel in Karachi today by way of a stakeholder inception workshop…
Story | 26 Jul, 2021
Mangroves are known as the sentinels of the coast, and Pakistan is blessed to have a growing mangrove cover along its 990 kilometer coast and creeks of the Indus Delta. These mangroves have a very close relation to the humans inhabiting the coast, whose lives they enrich by providing them marine…