Story | 13 Mar, 2011
IUCN Director General visits Pretoria Botanical Gardens
IUCN Member, The Botanical Society of South Africa (BotSoc), recently hosted a dinner for the IUCN Director General, Julia Marton-Lefèvre at the Pretoria Botanical Gardens during her recent visit to South Africa in February 2011. Before the dinner, Botsoc and the South African Biodiversity…
Story | 23 Feb, 2011
Keep the Lagoons of New Caledonia intact
An IUCN-led monitoring mission to the Lagoons of New Caledonia in the French Pacific Ocean archipelago, will look at how the site is managed, evaluate the impact of mining activities in the buffer zone and identify no-take zones.
Story | 20 Jan, 2011
arborvitae Issue 42 - Communicating Forest Values
Story | 02 Jan, 2011
IUCN welcomes ‘Forests 2011’ - International Year of Forests
The world’s forests are essential to life in all its diversity and to attaining humanity’s biggest goals such as reducing poverty, curbing climate change and achieving sustainable development. Throughout 2011 IUCN will work towards making sure that forests deliver their maximum potential for…
Press release | 23 Nov, 2008
Zambezi basin stakeholders to interrogate the IWRM strategy in Lilongwe, Malawi
People with a stake in the Zambezi river basin are set to meet in Lilongwe Malawi to discuss how they can implement the recently adopted Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Strategy for the shared river basin.
Story | 30 Oct, 2008
Bastian Bomhard and Guy Midgley A report by the Ecosystems, Protected Areas and People Project, IUCN ASIA 2005
Press release | 16 Jun, 2008
Rhinos on the rise in Africa but Northern white nears extinction
African rhinos have reached record numbers for the first time in decades, but the Northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is on the brink of extinction.