Blog | 15 Oct, 2019
Bwindi: bees, baskets and brilliant guided walks
CEESP News: By Dr. Dilys Roe, Chair of the 'Sustainable Use and Livelihoods' CEESP/SSC Specialist Group.
Tracking rare mountain gorillas is on the bucket list of many a traveller – both at the luxury end of the market and for backpackers. But what about the people who live in the same…
Story | 05 Sep, 2019
Where lions go, Africa goes. Unlocking the value of lions and their landscapes
Lions and their landscapes are a major part of Africa’s lifeblood indicator. Facing a catastrophic decline in lion population and habitat, a fresh report is the first to look in detail at the wider ecosystem services lions and…
Story | 10 Mar, 2019
Red List of Finnish species - every ninth species in Finland is threatened
A new assessment of threatened species indicates an increasing loss of biodiversity in Finnish nature. Of the 22,000 species evaluated, 11.9% were classified as threatened. The highest proportion of threatened species is found among birds and bryophytes (mosses). The primary threat is the…
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
Restoration of Urban Longinoja Brook Wins Finnish Biodiversity Award 2017-2018
Perseverance in the voluntary restoration of the urban brook of Longinoja in the Malmi suburb of Helsinki won the Finnish Biodiversity Award 2017-2018. The winner was chosen by the National Committee of Finland of IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature. The award was given out in…
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
Finland Publishes the Most Comprehensive Red List of Ecosystems in the World
The results of the extensive assessment for the Red List of all of Finland’s terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems were published in December 2018. The threat status of ecosystem or habitat types in Finland was now evaluated for the second time, using this time the new assessment methodology called…
Story | 19 Sep, 2018
CEESP News- Catherine Sayer, IUCN Program Officer, and Cory Whitney, University of Bonn
A recent assessment of the livelihoods value of freshwater biodiversity in the Lake Victoria Basin in Eastern Africa has demonstrated that freshwater plants and fishes are key to supporting the…
Story | 28 Aug, 2018
Scoring the restoring: An assessment of contributions to forest landscape restoration in Uganda
Uganda's forest landscapes are precious in so many ways, but the country continues to lose its important forest assets at an unprecedented rate. In recent years, forest landscape restoration has been in place to help reverse that trend. So how is it going?
Story | 12 Jan, 2018
The conservation and livelihoods power of a community fund in Uganda
The Community Environment Conservation Fund (CECF) is a conservation benefits sharing model developed and implemented by IUCN to address immediate community livelihood needs through a credit scheme. This in turn motivates and empowers communities to responsibly utilise and manage natural…
Story | 29 Aug, 2017
IUCN’s work on World Heritage benefits and ecosystem services to help sustainability action
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is undertaking pilot assessments of ecosystem services in two natural World Heritage sites in Uganda and Sri Lanka, as part of its Benefits of Natural World Heritage project. The aim is to test practical tools and methods which can be…
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…