Story | 06 Sep, 2019
Aligning restoration commitments could boost global land health – IUCN report
By aligning land restoration commitments countries could bring more degraded land back to health, according to a new IUCN report launched today at the ongoing Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in New Delhi.
Story | 06 Sep, 2019
Valientes mujeres guatemaltecas de la Selva Maya apuntan a la conservación de las áreas protegidas
Este evento coincidió con el Día Internacional de la Mujer Indígena. Como parte del respeto a la cultura y del fortalecimiento de la participación efectiva, se contó con el apoyo de un traductor del español a la lengua Q'eqchí.
Story | 05 Sep, 2019
Cities launch park-based programmes to reap health, biodiversity, and financial harvest
Urban biodiversity and healthy natural ecosystems offer a range of benefits to human society, including providing cleaner water, reducing flood risk and storing carbon.
Story | 04 Sep, 2019
Lessons for CEESP and Ways forward: Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Conservation Forum
CEESP News: by Mersie Ejigu, IUCN CEESP Africa Region Vice Chair
The 2019 IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) expressed commitment to upscaling sound ecosystem restoration and natural resource governance schemes.
This bodes well for CEESP's…
Story | 03 Sep, 2019
The Restoration Tracker: an interview
Making a pledge to the Bonn Challenge to bring landscapes under restoration is an important first step, but that may actually be the easiest part. The intertwined, complex moving parts between making that pledge and actually restoring landscapes to…
Story | 30 Aug, 2019
17th September – Have your say on the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions
This week we launched the 2nd and final public consultation on IUCN Global Nature-based Solutions for Societal needs – climate change, disasters, food and water security, health, social and economic development. On Tuesday 17th September a live around the world day for your say - #day4yoursay…
Story | 30 Aug, 2019
Cracking open a better source of oil
Palm oil dominates the headlines, and for good reason. It’s a commodity that many of us depend on, yet it takes its toll on whole landscapes – famously triggering the destruction of diverse forests to convert into palm plantations. There is no…
Story | 29 Aug, 2019
The Future of Dams - Viable Options or Stranded Assets?
Since the 1997 IUCN-World Bank study 'Large Dams: Learning from the Past, Looking at the Future' and the subsequent establishment of the World Commission on Dams, IUCN recognises dams are, for better or worse, an integral part of a post fossil-fuel future in which energy needs are met for all.…
Story | 23 Aug, 2019
As part of the Mekong WET project, recent climate change vulnerability assessments conducted by IUCN in Cambodia revealed that wetland communities in three Ramsar sites would face increasing water scarcity issues, extensive crop damage, and a dramatic loss of…