Story | 02 Jul, 2020
Sharing Green List experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean
On June 26, for the celebration of the International Day of Tropical Forests, the IUCN Secretariat and the World Commission on Protected Areas organized the virtual discussion “Green List, a future beyond 2020: sharing experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean”. In it, experts and…
Story | 02 Jul, 2020
BEST: 18 new projects in the European Outermost Regions!
Further to the first LIFE4BEST call for proposals, 18 new BEST projects and new organisations have been selected under the EU BEST Initiative.
Story | 30 Jun, 2020
Extraordinary efforts to win the fire race in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area
Surrounding the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area means observing this striking contrast between the land used for agriculture and livestock purposes and the thick green jungle that is threatened each year by burning during the dry…
Story | 30 Jun, 2020
Belize ignites technology to put out forest fires in the Selva Maya forest
Agility is the word that defines the Belize Forest Department’s ability to control fires in the Selva Maya. This is possible thanks to the support from the German Government through the Selva Maya Program, which through the German Development…
Story | 30 Jun, 2020
Building ambition for the High Seas Treaty: June IUCN webinar series. What did you miss?
The goal of the three sessions was for all to better understand the UN Treaty on the Conservation and Sustainable use of Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (the High Seas Treaty), to address potential points of divergence, and to build ambition for the …
Story | 08 Jun, 2020
IUCN and The Ocean Race join forces in global sports-conservation partnership
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has established a unique collaboration with The Ocean Race to work together, combining global sports events with powerful conservation activities, having impacts that will amplify awareness towards sustainability and essential…
Story | 29 May, 2020
International wildlife trade: research and COVID-19
CEESP News: by Dr. Inés Arroyo-Quiroz, Chair of the CEESP Specialist Group on Green Criminology & Researcher at CRIM - UNAM, Mexico
Wildlife trade involves far more than animals harvested in tropical regions and sold in China. Most regions of the world play a role. Here Dr. Inés…
Story | 23 Apr, 2020
As part of its Plastic Waste-Free Islands (PWFI) project, IUCN commences a plastic waste national level quantification and Material Flow Analysis (MFA) in the Caribbean. This study investigates plastics production, imports and exports, plastic processing and end-of-…
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
Saint Lucia equipped with a management effectiveness assessment tool
The BIOPAMA programme continues to strengthen the capacity of protected area stakeholders across the Caribbean by creating tools to assess Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME). The programme has been working with the…
Story | 12 Mar, 2020
Report: Blue Infrastructure Finance, where all win
All coastal and marine ecosystems are critical to human well-being and global biodiversity. Mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass beds are examples of these. But urban and rural infrastructure investments are having a heavy negative impact on these systems, and it is…