Story | 29 May, 2017
IUCN Pakistan under its Mangroves for the Future (MFF) Programme organized a two-day training workshop and seminar in collaboration with HEJ/ International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) on "Eco-Disaster Risk Reduction and Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change from 24…
Story | 10 May, 2017
Four countries have made restoration pledges to the Bonn Challenge – totaling 1.65 million hectares – at the first Asia Bonn Challenge High-level Roundtable in South Sumatra.
Story | 24 Mar, 2017
Plant more trees, and reduce and recycle waste water
In collaboration with IUCN Pakistan and the Planning & Development Department, the Environmental Cell of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) celebrated the International Day of Forests on March 21 and World Water Day on March 22 at the FATA Secretariat. Both days were…
Story | 10 Feb, 2017
Spring Plantation kick-starts in Sindh at Keti Bunder
Forest and Wildlife Department, Government of Sindh and IUCN Pakistan jointly commenced the Spring Plantation Campaign of the Sindh Province at Keti Bunder today. The event attracted Senior Government Official of the Forest and Wildlife Department, Media and IUCN Staff.
Story | 16 Jan, 2017
Nature: the decisive solution for the climate change crisis
This blog, published in Thomson Reuters Foundation News, highlights how MFF harnesses the natural functions of ecosystems and women’s strength in resource management to bring about better solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Story | 08 Aug, 2016
IUCN and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) organised a launch ceremony of the mangroves plantation in the Port Qasim Area jurisdiction of the SSGC LPG-Terminal today.
Story | 08 Jun, 2015
To have healthy oceans we need healthy marine wildlife
According to the United Nations, World Oceans Day is about a healthy planet being based on healthy oceans – so true and in so many ways! The ecological pressures on Earth’s oceans are as diverse and daunting as the storms that can roll across its blue horizons. But there is hope rolling in the…
Press release | 05 Jun, 2015
KPK Launches Billion-tree Drive – A Contribution to Global Forestation Campaign
Government of Khyber Pakthunkhwa in collaboration with IUCN launched its billion-tree campaign as a contribution to the global Bonn Challenge on occasion the World Environment Day today, Islamabad. The Bonn Challenge was established at a ministerial roundtable in September 2011, at the…
Story | 10 Dec, 2014
To help celebrate more than 50 years of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) work protecting our global natural heritage, Terre Sauvage has published a special edition of their renowned wildlife magazine.
Press release | 17 Nov, 2014
Global appetite for resources pushing new species to the brink – IUCN Red List
Pacific Bluefin Tuna, Chinese Pufferfish, American Eel, Chinese Cobra and an Australian butterfly are threatened with extinction