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 | 07 Jun, 2021
Ocean Acidification: The what, where, how, why and what next on this major ocean issue
In the last 200 years, the ocean has taken up around 30% of all CO2 emissions and this absorption has altered the production of calcium carbonate in oceanic waters, causing the phenomenon known as Ocean Acidification (OA). Our new web story provides a high-level look at all impacts of this…
Story | 28 May, 2021
Impacts of COVID-19 and Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples: a Virtual Dialogue
CEESP Virtual Dialogue on the Impacts of COVID-19 and Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples
IUCN CEESP and the Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws & Human Rights (SPICEH) discussed the status of Indigenous Peoples in the face of climate change…
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 | 12 May, 2021
What makes conservation effective? A community perspective
A video is now available of the public event held April 20, 2021, to celebrate the launch of the new CCRN book, co-published by IUCN-CEESP: Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods.
Story | 11 May, 2021
Nigerian Conservation Foundation partner nominated for the 2021 Whitley Award
Joseph Onoja, Technical Programme Director at the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, an IUCN Member organisation, has been shortlisted for the 2021 Whitley Award.
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 | 23 Apr, 2021
The inaugural IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress officially relaunched
The Government of Rwanda will in March 2022 host the inaugural IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) to discuss conservation of the continent’s protected areas. This comes after the relaunch of APAC in Kigali, Rwanda on 20th April 2021.
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.…