Story | 26 Oct, 2021
The Restoration Initiative Year in Review showcases progress despite pandemic
The Restoration Initiative (TRI) 2020 Year in Review is now available from IUCN, FAO and UNEP. This flagship publication provides an overview of progress and stories from the second year of TRI – a pathbreaking Global Environment Facility (GEF) programme…
Story | 25 Oct, 2021
Regenerative agriculture works: New research and African businesses show how
A new report reveals strong evidence that regenerative agriculture works, showing surprising returns. Regenerative agriculture secures supply, strengthens livelihoods and sequesters carbon, delivering on the promise of Nature-based Solutions.
Story | 20 Aug, 2021
Strategies to help rural women protect forests
Around the world in forest communities, women entrepreneurs are making a big difference. More than 750 million women depend on forests for employment and household consumption, and women are among the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs. Federations of forest and farm producers around the…
Story | 16 Aug, 2021
IUCN is publishing a worldwide collection of case studies that provide concrete illustrations of how aquaculture can be part of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), sharing conservation objectives with the community while outlining critical issues that should be explored on a case-by-case basis. Today…
Blog | 29 Jul, 2021
Protecting people and biodiversity: Addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and conservation links
Around the world, GBV creates a barrier to conservation efforts and the sustainable and equitable access and control of natural resources.
Story | 22 Jun, 2021
Strengthening our place in the restoration movement
Environmental leaders from Ethiopia, Madagascar and Togo strengthen both their resolve and their technical skills on the path to becoming better restoration leaders.
Story | 27 May, 2021
The ocean and the UNFCCC Global Stocktake: What does this mean?
What the ocean means to the Global Stocktake (GST) has been analysed by multiple conservation organisations in this new report. The conclusion? The ocean, as a central part in the Earth's climate system, must also be central to the UNFCCC’s GST.
Story | 17 May, 2021
Farmer organisations and the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions: An illustration
IUCN is onto something with the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions and its associated self-assessment. However, the best way to reinforce the universal value of this tool is for different types of organisations to apply the self-assessment to their own…
Story | 28 Apr, 2021
What comes next for landscape governance in DRC, Ghana and Uganda?
The Stabilising Land Use project sought to improve the governance of natural resources for communities around protected areas in six landscapes across four countries in Africa. At the conclusion of the project, we checked back in with the project teams and community…
Story | 22 Apr, 2021
Strengthening conservation and restoration through the Species Threat Abatement and Recovery metric
A new tool – the Species Threat Abatement and Recovery metric – promises to help practitioners assess the potential for conserving threatened biodiversity, and set site scale or landscape scale targets compatible with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Strategy.…