Story | 10 Apr, 2023
IUCN Director General’s mission to Brazil to reinforce conservation efforts
Brasilia, March 2023 - IUCN Director General Dr Bruno Oberle went on mission to Brazil to meet with the government and other key stakeholders and agree how to work together to address critical environmental issues affecting the country.
Story | 22 Dec, 2022
Story | 31 Jan, 2023
Judging complex societal change processes is made easier with new guidelines to assess contributions. An important contribution claim begins with the question, “How and why has the intervention made a difference, or not?”
Story | 16 Dec, 2022
Rio Doce Panel debates the restoration challenges in the Fundão Dam Science Meeting
The second Fundão Dam Rupture Science Meeting was held from 21–22 September in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, aimed at sharing technical information about the consequences of the rupture of the Fundão dam and the recovery processes of the Rio Doce Basin.
News | 29 Nov, 2022
A collaborative document addresses the challenge of turning data and information into knowledge to support decisions about the region's recovery
Story | 02 Dec, 2022
The Restoration Initiative: A Central African Republic story
Villagers unite around community forest project in the Central African Republic (CAR)
Story | 05 Dec, 2022
Six country teams gathered in October 2022 to reflect on the implementation and achievements of Ecosystem-based adaptation on their respective mountain systems and communities…
Story | 08 Nov, 2022
In transboundary mountain ecosystems across Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, Colombia, Kenya, and Uganda, IUCN and partners have worked from 2017 - 2022 to implement ecosystem-based adaptation approaches to increase climate resilience and reduce vulnerabilities of local communities and the ecosystems they…
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2016 Rio de Janeiro International Environmental Law Conference
The 1st IUCN World Environmental Law Congress: Environmental Rule of Law, Justice and Planetary Sustainability convened from April 27-29 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil under the auspices of IUCN and UN Environment.
News | 24 Aug, 2022
Joining forces to preserve our forests
Through the Amazon 2.0 project, the International Union for Conservation of Nature in South America (IUCN-Sur) is partnering with the collective A Concertation for the Amazon.