Press release | 19 Feb, 2015
Call for papers on: Enhancing food security through forest landscape restoration
Forest landscape restoration can dramatically improve food security in rural areas - but we need more evidence to understand how best this works, and where. We are calling for new research papers linking landscape restoration to food security.
Grey literature | 2014
Stewards rising : improving community resilience through nature-based solutions
Grey literature | 2014
Think nature : improving community resilience through nature-based solutions
This book documents the "Implementing a Resilience Framework to Support Climate Change Adaptation in the Mt. Elgon Region of the Lake Victoria Basin" project, which was funded by USAID and implemented by the IUCN Uganda Office.
Story | 02 Feb, 2015
IUCN’s new Director General engages global leaders in Davos
As one of her first acts, IUCN Director General Inger Andersen participated in the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Story | 28 Jan, 2015
Failing to protect nature's capital could cost businesses trillions
This OpEd piece by IUCN Director General Inger Andersen originally appeared on Guardian Sustainable Business.
Publication | 2014
Framing ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change : applicability in the coast of Bangladesh
The recent increase in exposure to natural hazards among the communities of Bangladesh is linked to the new generation of threats posed by climate variability and change resulting from anthropogenic activity. Adaptation is not a new approach, but there are still a number of challenges inherent…
Story | 25 Jan, 2015
In the early hours of a snowy Saturday morning in New York, United Nations delegates took a historic step towards safeguarding the global ocean commons. Government representatives at a UN meeting agreed to launch a formal preparatory process for a global and legally-binding instrument for the…
Story | 12 Jan, 2015
Inger Andersen takes up her duties as IUCN Director General
This week IUCN extends a warm welcome to Inger Andersen as she takes on her new role as Director General.
Story | 17 Dec, 2014
Conservation is about people, and a key part of SOS Grantee Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) work to save threatened coastal cetaceans in Bangladesh explains Brian D. Smith, WCS Programme Director. That entails reaching out to fishing communities in culturally respectful and interactive…
Press release | 08 Dec, 2014
Gland, Switzerland, 9 December 2014 – Protecting key carbon-absorbing areas of the ocean and conserving fish and krill stocks are critical for tackling climate change. This is one of the findings of a report released today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in which top…