Story | 30 May, 2024
Communities Drive the Designation of Pyu Lake as Myanmar’s Newest Ramsar Site
Pyu Lake, located in the heart of Myanmar, has secured two consecutive ‘wins’ for its conservation over the past year. Following the designation of the site as a Flyway Network Site with the East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) on 16 November 2023, the lake was designated as the…
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In Antigua and Barbuda, the international community will gather at the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States to review Small Island Developing States’ (SIDS) sustainable development progress and propose a new decade of partnerships and solutions to supercharge their…
Other brief | 2024
The global community has developed a wide array of frameworks, tools, reporting systems, and guidance materials to help protected area and OECM managers assess the effectiveness of their areas and systems. These resources have been developed over time in response to CBD commitments and work has…
News | 13 May, 2024
New Opportunity for Italy’s Protected Areas to Join IUCN's Green List
The Second IUCN Expert Assessment Group for Green List (EAGL) in Italy has been launched this April 10th in Rome, opening the doors for more Italian protected areas to apply to join IUCN’s green list.
Project | 01 Nov, 2019 - 31 Jul, 2024
Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Societies in the Western Balkans
Jointly published | 2023
Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0
The Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0 offers a self-assessment methodology to evaluate management effectiveness in a World Heritage property or other heritage places.
Publication | 2023
Nature-based Solutions for corporate climate targets
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are activities undertaken to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified ecosystems to simultaneously benefit people and nature. NbS are critical to addressing challenges like climate change, food security, water security, disaster risk, human health…
News | 21 Sep, 2023
Kiwa Initiative opens new call for local projects in the Pacific region
IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature is excited to announce the opening of a new Call for proposals as part of the Kiwa Initiative. This Call, which runs from September 20th to November 12th, 2023, aims for project proposals from 19 eligible countries and territories to enhance…
Grey literature | 2023
Farming systems enhancement in North-East Badia Highlands, Jordan
North-East Badia, Jordan, is inhabited by half a million Syrian refugees and an equal number of Jordanians, whose livelihoods depend on agriculture. Working in the agricultural sector is characterized by low wages, long hours, poor working conditions, lack of occupational health and safety, and…