Story | 28 Jun, 2021
Put trees on farms for food security and biodiversity
What do you picture when you think of biodiversity? Lush forests teeming with birds? Or maybe coral reefs bursting with fish and brightly coloured corals? Now think about a farm as a symbol of biodiversity. Likely, farms are not the first landscapes to conjure images of species richness, but…
Press release | 25 Jun, 2021
IUCN Global Standard for NbS™ and guidance advanced in China
Beijing, China, 23 June 2021 (IUCN) – China’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), together with IUCN, today officially launched the Chinese version of the IUCN Global Standard for NbS and guidance, along with 10 new case…
Story | 23 Jun, 2021
Green Ghana Day puts trees in the ground
A lot of trees. IUCN and supporting organisations including the Diplomatic Corps, joined Ghanaians all over the country to plant trees on Green Ghana Day (11th June, 2021). A fun day. An important mission.
Story | 23 Jun, 2021
Investment from a new "blended" finance facility will allow Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association (TASA), to use the incoming funds to implement a number of sustainable, revenue-generating initiatives while enhancing the protection of 132,000 hectares of spectacular coral reef ecosystems.…
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 | 15 Jun, 2021
Launch of new website on Water Law, Governance and Diplomacy
There is nothing quite as important as water for nature integrity, human health and sustainable development. Our own survival depends on it, this is a universally accepted truth. How to manage water equitably and reasonably, especially across borders, however is not so clear-cut.
Story | 15 Jun, 2021
IUCN, SEARCA ink partnership to enhance regional cooperation on agriculture and nature conservation
The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) formalized its agreement with IUCN through its Asia Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand to cooperate on training programmes, scholarships, and…
Story | 14 Jun, 2021
People in Nature: Understanding how communities use biodiversity
CEESP News: by Chetan Kumar and Helen Suich
People in Nature provides an assessment framework to aid project development through an understanding of community uses of biodiversity.
Story | 14 Jun, 2021
What is high quality ecosystem restoration?
Ahead of the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the Decade’s science task force convened to answer this daunting question. This is what they said.