Press release | 19 Apr, 2007
Berlin conference on marine protected areas in European waters and high seas calls for better management of the world's oceans
Press release | 17 Apr, 2007
Protect the oceans to prevent commercial fisheries
Berlin conference on marine protected areas in European waters and high seas (18-20 April) will chart way forward for marine conservation
Press release | 12 Apr, 2007
Marine Summit calls for dramatic increase in ocean protection
IUCN Marine Protected Area Summit issues strategy to counter escalating threats to the world’s oceans
Press release | 09 Apr, 2007
Protecting oceans and coasts will help millions of people survive climate change
IUCN Marine Protected Area Summit in Washington, DC opens today with call for better protection of our seas to counter climate change and other threats to the marine environment
Press release | 18 Feb, 2007
Holcim and the World Conservation Union join forces to conserve biodiversity
Press release | 31 Jan, 2007
Carcass of critically endangered whale found in fishing gear off Japan’s coast
A critically endangered Western Pacific Gray Whale (Western Gray Whale) has recently died off the Pacific coast of Japan after becoming trapped in fishing gear.
Story | 01 Oct, 2006
New scientific panel to keep the finger on the pulse of the endangered Western Gray Whale
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) convenes a new independent scientific advisory panel to monitor the impact of the Sakhalin II offshore oil and gas development on critically endangered Western Gray Whale population
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Story | 13 Mar, 2006
A reef manager's guide to coral bleaching
Marshall, Paul ; Schuttenberg, Heidi IUCN, Global Marine Programme ; United States, NOAA ; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Story | 31 Dec, 2003
Biodiversity Offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
Biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects. Recent experience with regulatory regimes, such as wetland and conservation banking in the USA, tradable forest conservation obligations in…