Press release | 25 Mar, 2019
Belo Horizonte, 25 March 2019 (IUCN) - The Rio Doce Panel, an independent panel of experts coordinated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to advise the Renova Foundation on the recovery efforts of the Rio Doce Basin,…
Story | 22 Mar, 2019
From 19 to 21 March, the BRIDGE GBM Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Network, through the BRIDGE Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) programme facilitated by IUCN, organised a workshop in Sreemangal, Bangladesh, on the week of World Water Day. The workshop aimed to enhance CSO understanding of…
Story | 22 Mar, 2019
Last November 2018, IUCN, through its Mekong WET project, and the Department of Freshwater and Wetlands Conservation (DFWC) of the Ministry of Environment (MoE) in Cambodia, organised a three-day Ramsar Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (R-METT) Training…
Story | 20 Mar, 2019
Roadmap to Tanzania’s first miombo nature reserve
Blog by Kasukura Nyamaka. My work for SUSTAIN is based in the far western region of Tanzania, in the Sumbawanga cluster of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). It is a resource-rich region inhabited mainly by the Fipa people who maintain themselves by subsistence…
Story | 18 Mar, 2019
Celebrating World Wetland Day 2019 in Cambodia
In Cambodia, the 2019 World Wetlands Day was celebrated on February 2 in Boeung Prek Lapov Protected Area Landscape in Takeo Province. WWD was organized by the Department of Freshwater and Wetlands Conservation of the Ministry of Environment, Wildfowl &…
Story | 15 Mar, 2019
A participatory market systems approach to sustainable livelihoods development
CEESP News - by Helen Schneider
Flora and Fauna International is pleased to announce publication of a set of learning documents and practical tools for taking a participatory market systems approach to sustainable livelihoods development in a conservation context.
Blog | 15 Mar, 2019
No Net Loss: Ensuring the best possible outcomes for people and biodiversity
A guest blog by Julia PG Jones, professor of conservation science from Bangor University and a member of IUCN’s Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group, who was recently involved in the development of a set of good practice principles on No Net Loss to ensure…
Press release | 12 Mar, 2019
IUCN guide to help new sports venues minimise impact on nature
Nairobi, Kenya, 12 March 2019, (IUCN) – A guide designed to help integrate biodiversity considerations into new sports venues, minimising their impacts on nature and delivering conservation benefits, was released today by IUCN, International Union for Conservation…
Story | 11 Mar, 2019
CEESP News: By Stan Stevens and Neema Pathak Broome, ICCA Consortium
Story | 11 Mar, 2019
MaliVerde & MaliBuluu Fund concept gains steam
An IUCN concept for an inclusive finance fund is a finalist in the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance – 2019. We hope that this is just a start.