Story | 28 Apr, 2022
The representatives of Montenegro and Serbia strongly emphasised the importance and the role Biodiversity Task Force for South-East Europe (BDTF SEE) could play in relation to the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework implementation in their statements at the CBD Geneva meetings 2022 end-March…
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…
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 | 28 May, 2021
Space Lens for Transformational Change
By Ning Li - SpaceX has made numerous eyebrow-raising headlines in the past 10-15 years - that does not look likely to change.
Blog | 20 Apr, 2021
A Place to Call Her Own: Land titling and gender-based violence in South Kivu, DRC
In the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), there are no female chiefs or heads of wards across the 40 villages in Walungu. The low level of representation in these leadership spaces means that women face an uphill battle when it comes to accessing land rights.
Story | 04 Sep, 2020
Three landscape conservation projects converge in the Kilombero Valley
Kilombero Valley in Tanzania is an area of high biodiversity – including a Ramsar listed wetland – that is under ever-increasing human pressure. It is also part of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), a public-private partnership initiated through…
Story | 05 Jun, 2020
The newest CEC product is about a little girl named Tara who befriended a Magic Tree that helps her fighting for a cleaner planet
Story | 08 Jan, 2020
Creating value in the wildlife economy
Dr Sue Snyman used studies of southern African protected areas, their tourist facilities, and their communities, to answer questions of why conservation in these African nations makes the wildlife economy valuable (at the Global Wildlife Program annual conference, 2019, in Pretoria, South Africa…
Story | 05 Dec, 2019
IUCN-outsourced paper finds no proof Rufiji dam project can meet Tanzania’s development needs
A strategic environmental assessment meant to guide decisions on the Rufiji hydropower project in Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve World Heritage site is completely inadequate, according to an independent technical review commissioned and issued today by IUCN. The document does not assess the…
Story | 23 Oct, 2019
The world of protected areas in one book, now in Spanish
The entirety of protected area management and governance has been available in one book since the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, in Sydney. The Spanish version of this publication, 'Protected Area Governance and Management’, was launched in Lima, on 15 October 2019, at the third Latin American…