Story | 17 Sep, 2008
Business has joined forces with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) to better understand the biology of and threats to western gray whales. The purpose of this broad engagement is to do everything possible to ensure the survival and recovery of this population.
Story | 17 Sep, 2008
Oil business and conservation work to protect Western Pacific Gray Whales
Sakhalin Energy and the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, convened by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), have agreed to work together on seismic surveys and oil spill prevention. These are some of the biggest threats to the critically endangered Western Gray Whales from the oil and gas…
Press release | 03 Sep, 2008
IUCN joins forces with businesses for World Conservation Congress
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has joined forces with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) for its World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest ever conservation event.
Story | 07 Aug, 2008
IUCN Private Sector Relations 2009 - 2012
The present document brings together all the private sector related activities proposed by the different component programmes for the 2009 - 2012 quadrennial.
Story | 24 Jul, 2008
Agricultural Ecosystems - Facts and Trends
Understanding agriculture’s dilemma between food security and conservation – new publication Agriculture is suffering from a growing dilemma: it needs to feed a fast growing world population, and conserve biodiversity and manage natural resources of an increasingly depleted planet. …
Press release | 23 Jul, 2008
Seagrass meadows in “hot water” – IUCN
Seagrass meadows are essential to commercial species such as prawns
Press release | 06 Jul, 2008
EU overseas entities in deep water – IUCN and ONERC
The European Union’s overseas entities are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. But a new report from IUCN and the French Observatory for the Impacts of Global Warming (ONERC) shows for the first time that their weakness in the face of climate change could work to their…
Story | 03 Jul, 2008
Put natural World Heritage sites off limits for mining and oil exploration, IUCN says
More than a quarter of natural World Heritage sites are under pressure by existing or future mineral extraction. For this reason, IUCN is calling on the private sector, state-run companies and governments themselves to adopt and enforce the “no go” principle, meaning that no mining and/or…