Blog | 24 Oct, 2022
SNV’s role in the EWMR Technical Assistance (TA) Consortium is to support the development of innovative finance mechanisms and value chains to improve economic and ecological benefits within Sebeya and other catchments. To accomplish this, key interventions have been focusing on…
Blog | 24 Oct, 2022
IUCN and RWB conduct consultation meetings for Mukungwa and Akagera catchment management plans
Rwanda Water Resources Board (RWB) in collaboration with International Union for Conservation of nature (IUCN) organised two consultation meetings for Mukungwa catchment and Akagera low catchment in Rwanda with the overall objective to jointly identify challenges, solutions and opportunities to…
Blog | 19 Oct, 2022
How local communities restored degraded sebeya catchment in Rwanda
It is sunrise on Monday morning in Rutsiro District, in the mountainous western edge of Rwanda. A group of men, women and youth are ready to start work carving radical terraces into the steep slopes of the Kajugujugu site of Murunda Sector, Rutsiro District.
Blog | 10 Oct, 2022
Kigali-Rwanda: Research carried out in the Eastern Province of Rwanda under the DeSIRA Research Project, funded by the European Union Delegation in Rwanda, shows that indigenous trees have the potential to deal with the problem of drought and other soil related problems that have been…
Brochure
El objetivo del proyecto es delimitar espacios continuos en el sureste peninsular que maximicen la coherencia espacial de la infraestructura verde, identificando los niveles de conservación o restauración que requieren para asegurar la funcionalidad del sistema.
Grey literature | 2020
Plastic Pollution Regional Report from Eastern and Southern Africa Mediterranean and Southeast Asia
Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action Regional Report Eastern and Southern Africa Mediterranean and Southeast Asia - a comprehensive view
Press release | 22 Aug, 2022
Rhino poaching and illegal trade decline but remain critical threats – new report
Gland, Switzerland, 22 August 2022 (IUCN / TRAFFIC) – Overall rhino poaching rates have declined since 2018, and trade data suggests the lowest annual estimate of rhino horns entering illegal trade markets since 2013, according to a…
Grey literature | 2021
Policy and Legal Recommendations in Menorca: Plastic Pollution
As a result of a previous gap analysis, the Plastic Hotspot Assessment, and the stakeholders’ consultation, this report provides a series of recommendations which will help achieve the plastic pollution targets.
Blog | 09 Aug, 2022
The German Minister of Environment, Hon. Steffi Lemke, conveyed her satisfactions with the way Government of Rwanda in partnership with IUCN is implementing the Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) projects.
In 2011, Rwanda became the first country in Africa to pledge to restore…