Story | 14 Apr, 2016
Exposing illegal trade in elephant tusks
Following a seizure of ivory, a suspected illegal trader has been sentenced to imprisonment. Paul de Ornellas of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), a grantee with IUCN’s SOS initiative, explains how ZSL helped expose the crime.
Story | 22 Mar, 2016
World Water Day - Blog: 'Why investing in natural water infrastructure will pay off'
By Renat Heuberger, CEO of the South Pole Group, and Mark Smith, Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme. Why did a group of bankers and fund managers spend an afternoon in a Zurich café talking about nature? For opportunity and innovation
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
A window of conservation opportunity opens in Myanmar
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) - began working in the forested southern Tanintharyi Region in 2014 as it slowly began to open up to international organisations after over 50 years of civil conflict. Although there was little recorded evidence of…
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
In Bhutan, happiness is policy and tiger numbers are on the rise
The Kingdom of Bhutan, a Himalayan country about the size of Switzerland, could be taken as an example by many countries in the world. 70% of its land is still covered in forests. It is estimated that Bhutan forests sequestrate 3 times more carbon dioxide than the country emits. Close to 100% of…
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
Htamanthi, North Myanmar: Where Tigers Still Survive
Geographically bounded between Uyu and Chindwin rivers, the Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary has been the largest nature protected area in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar since its foundation in 1974.
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
The show must go on, despite forest fires in Indonesia
ITHCP-funded consortium led by WWF Germany in cooperation with WWF Indonesia in the Rimbang Baling landscape in Central Sumatra has suffered from the forest fires and related haze at the end of 2015, however the project team on…
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
ITHCP empowers local communities for effective conservation
Projects funded by the Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP) have gone through a step-by-step preparation process, and most of the proponents have been given Project Preparation Grants (PPGs) to ensure local people participation at project design stage and to consolidate…
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
IUCN Director General announces first round of tiger projects
In the last hundred years, the number of tigers in the wild has plummeted by a staggering 97%.
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
Manas National Park, the natural capital from which millions of people benefit
One often looks at protected areas as pristine lands, yet completely isolated from our human activity, with maybe the exception of tourism destinations. However, given the extent of services these sites provide us, we should in fact consider their broader roles in our economies.