Story | 20 Oct, 2016
Achieving forest landscape restoration (FLR) at scale is contingent upon the engagement and commitment of thousands of landowners and communities. Add conducive public policies, economic and financial incentives, good governance, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approaches and capacity-…
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
Diversidad Socio Ambiental de los territorios indígenas en los bosques amazónicos
En un encuentro en el Congreso Mundial de la Naturaleza Hawai’i 2016 se conoció sobre los mecanismos que permiten cuidar la diversidad socio ambiental de los territorios indígenas en los bosques amazónicos.
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
Una experiencia exitosa para restaurar bosques con participación conjunta
El proyecto, que actualmente ha logrado la atención de de 60,000 hectáreas de bosques en México, comprende una iniciativa tripartita entre gobierno, ONG y sector privado.
Story | 04 Sep, 2016
La Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas puede ser flexible y algunas veces puede ser complementaria a la infraestructura gris y junto con la Reducción de Desastres Ecosistémicos pueden ayudar a los países y economías en desarrollo.
Story | 26 Aug, 2016
Mexico, Central America, and The Caribbean: a journey towards sustainability
It’s not just the final destination that makes a journey worthwhile, but everything we learn along the way.
Story | 25 Aug, 2016
Costa Rica and Panama Join Forces to Reforest
Children, youth and adults (primary and secondary students, institutional and municipal authorities, and representatives of communities and local organizations) will meet at previously identified sites in Panama and Costa Rica to plant more than…
Story | 10 Aug, 2016
The Sixaola Binational Commission Promotes Participatory Planning in the Territory
Harboring six protected areas and six indigenous territories, the Sixaola river basin is characterized by biological and cultural diversity. However, social and environmental problems in this area require coordinated, binational attention due to the connectivity existing between Talamanca,…
Story | 14 Jul, 2016
Project AVE (Adaptation, Vulnerability and Ecosystems) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
The IUCN has been facilitating various activities to improve governance in the Goascorán Basin, as well as adaptation measures to address the effects of drought in Central America’s Dry Corridor
Story | 24 Jun, 2016
Legal Assessment Tool on Water Governance (LAGO) as dialogue instrument in El Salvador
On June 13th and 14th, 2016 a course on Water Governance in a National Context was held with approximately thirty representatives of the private sector to strengthen the dialogue on appropriate legal instruments for good water governance, provide technical inputs to strengthen capacities in…
Story | 10 Jun, 2016
Wildlife trade and dams putting natural World Heritage at risk – IUCN
Natural World Heritage sites face major threats, such as commercial logging, poaching, gillnet fishing and dams, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In its recommendations to the World Heritage Committee, which meets in July, IUCN has advised that three…