Story | 25 Mar, 2021
Blockchain for forest landscape restoration: FLRchain marries two brilliant concepts
Were those trees actually planted? IUCN has teamed up with Gaiachain to develop FLRchain – a blockchain-based application to follow forest landscape restoration implementation through a verifiable ledger system that traces transactions from funding…
Story | 21 Mar, 2021
An exciting time for forest landscapes
Just for today, let’s flip the grim narratives of deforestation and land degradation, and celebrate some of the progress the world is making on restoring forest landscapes through the Bonn Challenge.
Story | 16 Mar, 2021
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Forest Restoration Interventions in Sagaing Region, Myanmar
The Restoration Initiative (TRI) Myanmar Project has conducted a financial analysis of six restoration interventions in six townships of Sagaing Region, Myanmar that assesses the potential uptake of these interventions by small-scale farmers.
Story | 08 Mar, 2021
Forest landscape restoration needs women
Women play a key role in natural resource use and management, particularly in agriculture and forested landscape systems and along value chains. On International Women’s Day, IUCN delves into why women should be at the forefront of the global…
Story | 01 Mar, 2021
First-ever global catalogue of ecosystems will enable coordinated conservation efforts
Gland, Switzerland, 01 March 2021 (IUCN) – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today published its Global Typology of Ecosystems, the first-…
Story | 01 Mar, 2021
New data reveals slow progress in achieving gender equality in environmental decision making
Around the world, women are leaders, stewards, educators, engineers, farmers and scientists who contribute invaluable experiences and knowledge to effectively safeguard our environment and realise sustainable development goals. So where are they in top decision-making positions? This…
Story | 26 Feb, 2021
New IUCN-backed study finds gray whales at high risk from ship strikes in the North Pacific Ocean
Gland, Switzerland (IUCN) – Ships operating in the North Pacific pose a serious threat to gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus), according to the first scientific study that examines the impacts of vessel traffic on the species throughout its range.
Story | 24 Feb, 2021
New book: "Communities, Conservation & Livelihoods"
CEESP News: by Dr. Anthony Charles *
Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods is a new and freely-available book exploring how local communities, around the world, are tackling some of the biggest global challenges: the climate, the environment, and how to reach local conservation goals…
Story | 23 Feb, 2021
How Do We Build Back Better After a Pandemic?
By Kristen Walker Painemilla, Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy & Senior Vice President of Conservation International's ' Center for Communities and Conservation'
Transformation, an equitable recovery with social justice, and climate change are…
Story | 19 Feb, 2021
Landscape architects combating ecosystem degradation
CEESP News by Tobiloba Akibo, Tunji Adejumo, Kharbal James Kaltho (CEESP-member) & Ibrahim Bala Girku *
The Society of Landscape Architects in Nigeria (SLAN) launced a lecture series with the theme “UN Decade of Ecological Restoration,”…