Page | 17 May, 2022
Primary forests including intact forest landscapes
Although restored or even degraded forests can offer some degree of environmental and ecological functionality, they fall short of delivering the full and robust suite of benefits provided by primary forests including intact forest landscapes – forests free of significant human degradation.…
Jointly published | 2022
Guidelines for cave and karst protection : second edition
These guidelines provide an update and expansion of the original Guidelines for Cave and Karst Protection, published in 1997. The original guidelines were primarily concerned with geoheritage, and while this remains an important consideration in this second edition, it also covers the biological…
Story | 11 May, 2022
Exploring Kien Giang’s island clusters
As part of the IUCN-led USAID Mekong Delta Coastal Habitat Conservation project, IUCN and Kien Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural development (DARD) cooperated on a rapid assessment of three island clusters in the West Sea between the mainland…
Story | 09 May, 2022
New report released on Governance of High Seas Ecosystems: Big Data & AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) analytics and data visualization technologies can help practitioners to access, utilize and disseminate information in a strategic and cost effective way for management and conservation in remote areas. The new report reviews the existing state-of-the-art on remote…
Story | 09 May, 2022
IUCN Green List extends deadlines for five Calls for Proposals for external consultancies
The IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas team is extending the deadline for five Calls for Proposals for external consultancies related to the Green List. The new terms of reference are now online on the IUCN Human Resources Management System.
Story | 09 May, 2022
Amy Dickman and Alayne Oriol Cotterill, Joint CEOs and Catherine Coulson, Director of Fundraising and Communications at Lion Landscapes are joined in this conversation by Cécile Fattebert of the IUCN Protected and Conserved Areas team.
Story | 09 May, 2022
Big, bold, and boreal: The largest private conservation project in Canadian history
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has launched a bold new project in the heart of the country’s boreal forest. When complete, Boreal Wildlands will be the largest private conservation project in Canada’s history – 1,450 square kilometres. The project will…
Story | 09 May, 2022
Deep-sea Atlas of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: state-of-the-art knowledge for better protection
The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research present the Deep-sea Atlas of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea - the first collective work to compile the existing knowledge about the deepest waters of the Eastern Mediterranean, focusing on the "hidden"…
Story | 07 May, 2022
IUCN Viet Nam and Con Dao National Park are pleased to announce the call for marine turtle conservation volunteer programme 2022 in Con Dao NP, Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province, Viet Nam.
Story | 06 May, 2022
Freshwater resources and the life and diversity they sustain are under mounting pressure from mass alteration of the river, estuarine, peatland, wetland and watershed ecosystems worldwide, made worse by the impacts of climate change.