Story | 28 Jul, 2017
New IUCN training focuses on engaging business to safeguard international public goods
All over the world, businesses make use of natural capital. Companies therefore benefit from healthy ecosystems. But how can nature conservation organizations engage companies to contribute to the maintenance of ecosystem services? That question was central to the international business…
Story | 11 Jul, 2017
IUCN WCPA announces finalists for the Kenton Miller Award 2017
Named for Dr Kenton R. Miller, one of the leading figures in international protected area conservation, the award honours innovation in protected area management. The winner of the award will be announced at IMPAC4, the 4th International Marine Protected Areas Congress, taking place in September…
Story | 28 Jun, 2017
Dr Graeme Worboys, lifelong protected area advocate
Tracking frogs around the veranda, delighting in spying snakes slithering in the nearby creek, exploring the rugged terrain of Victoria, Australia, as part of the Scouts, spending a stint in high school as a seasonal ranger in the iconic Wilsons Promontory National Park—these early experiences …
Story | 19 Apr, 2017
Tanzania’s CEOs Champion Business and Biodiversity Conservation
By Michael Kwame Nkonu, IUCN SUSTAIN-Africa Programme Coordinator -
Story | 27 Feb, 2017
Chris Buss: On Learning Questions for the SUSTAIN Initiative
By Chris Buss - Deputy Director of the IUCN Global Forest and Climate Change Programme, based at the IUCN Headquarters in Gland. Chris leads the programme’s contribution to SUSTAIN’s monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks.
Story | 04 Nov, 2016
Marie Parramon Gurney: On Integrated Landscape Management
October 2016 - Marie Parramon Gurney is the lead coordinator in Africa for SUSTAIN, an initiative to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in African growth corridors with the aim of facilitating the greening of growth that is inclusive and climate-resilient.
Story | 16 Jun, 2016
Reef Manager’s Guide to Stewardship
"Helping people work together to improve the outlook for coral reefs and communities"
Story | 31 May, 2016
Wildlife crime fighting in Tanzania
"It is high time now that we come together and fight for this ... for ourselves and for our future .... it is upon us, the investigators, the prosecutors and the judiciary, to work together and to make this enemy stop" said Batilda Stephen Mushi, State Attorney at the Director of Public…
Story | 10 Nov, 2015
Parks Journal 21.2 November 2015
Edited by Sue Stolton and Nigel Dudley, Equilibrium Research and IUCN WCPA.
Press release | 24 Jun, 2015
Climate change and dams threaten natural World Heritage, warns IUCN
Climate change and large dam projects are putting natural World Heritage sites at risk, says IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, the official advisory body on nature to UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting this Sunday in Bonn, Germany.