Press release | 15 Oct, 2019
Charting a course to sustainability and equity in the blue economy
CEESP News: By Dr. Nathan Bennett, Chair of the 'People and the Ocean' CEESP Specialist Group.
The global rush to develop the ‘blue economy’ risks harming both the marine environment and human wellbeing. Bold policies and actions are urgently needed. This paper outlines five priorities…
Story | 15 Oct, 2019
Raising the voices of local communities through Citizen Journalism
From 9 -12 September, journalists from Viet Nam Television and Vietnam News collaborated with IUCN to conduct a training on citizen journalism for local community members from three wetlands sites. The training took place in U…
Story | 15 Oct, 2019
Highlighting climate change impacts on Cambodian wetlands through citizen journalism
Thirty community members and wetland managers from three Mekong WET focal sites in Cambodia recently attended a citizen journalism training workshop in Koh Kong City. Conducted by IUCN, in collaboration with Apsara TV, a national media outlet,…
Blog | 09 Oct, 2019
Fishing For Equality and Sustainability
Based on a report on gender and fisheries by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), USAID has launched a Learning Initiative to study the linkages between women's empowerment, access to finance and sustainable…
Story | 07 Oct, 2019
IUCN receives special recognition award from the Government of Ghana
On 4th October, 2019, IUCN was honoured with a special recognition award from the Government of Ghana for the organisation’s immense contribution to the REDD+ process in Ghana.
Story | 30 Sep, 2019
BRIDGE: Hydrodiplomacy in Action
Globally, over 310 lake and river basins stretch across national borders. Around 60% of those lack any type of cooperative management framework. Good transboundary water management is crucial for peace, security, economic development and environmental…
Story | 25 Sep, 2019
27,000+ students and now six massive open online courses (MOOCs) at IUCN-PAPACO
The New Technologies course will be available for the first time from October, joining the existing courses of Protected Area management, Ecological monitoring, Law enforcement, Species conservation, and Valorisation of natural resources and sustainable tourism.
Story | 24 Sep, 2019
Amplifying community voices in Thailand through Citizen Journalism
IUCN and Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS) jointly organised a series of citizen journalism trainings for local communities in Bang Pakong wetland and the Kaper Estuary- Laemson Marine National Park- Kraburi Estuary…
Story | 24 Sep, 2019
Championing conservation outcomes, the Green List expands in West Asia
With a new site committing to the Green List during the event, an inception meeting for a new project in the region, and a half-day workshop on the Green List with the Kuwait Environment Protection Agency, the Green List was a much talked about subject during the…
Story | 19 Sep, 2019
India is one of 17 mega-biodiverse countries in the world, and has many conservation success stories to record and share. The WII-organised one day workshop, designed to teach PANORAMA, resulted in 8 valuable 'solution' case studies, mainly targeting protected areas from the Ganga river to the…