Story | 09 Apr, 2019
Isla San Pedro Mártir Biosphere Reserve, Sonora, México
The Isla San Pedro Mártir Biosphere Reserve is one of the best-preserved sites in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), has great scientific relevance and should be considered a natural laboratory of…
Story | 08 Apr, 2019
60th birthday of the World Database on Protected Areas!
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global database of protected areas, updated on a monthly basis, and is one of the key global biodiversity data sets used widely by scientists, businesses, governments, Multilateral…
Story | 08 Apr, 2019
PANORAMA wins IUCN “One Programme” Impact Award
Often, lessons learnt from conservation and sustainable development initiatives are not well captured and shared to inform future planning. Means and tools for practitioners to benefit from learning about similar experiences…
Story | 02 Apr, 2019
Biodiversity in Cambodia: protecting water birds, creating strong riverine communities
The Sesan, Sekong and Sre Pok (3S) rivers of Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam together form the largest and most important transboundary watersheds and tributaries to the Mekong River. Aside from providing food and livelihoods to over three million people living…
Story | 26 Mar, 2019
Acknowledging concerns around the legal and institutional frameworks governing mangroves, the Save Our Mangroves Now!
Story | 25 Mar, 2019
Rwanda and Costa Rica Sign MoU to strengthen conservation efforts
Environment Ministers of Rwanda and Costa Rica have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deepen collaboration on key environmental conservation programmes in the two countries. The MoU was signed on March 15, 2019 on the sidelines of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi…
Story | 22 Mar, 2019
Call for Wetland Decade under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030)
Open Letter by the International Organization Partners of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: The environmental health of our wetlands across the world is deteriorating. The authoritative Global Wetland Outlook released by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in 2018 highlighted an alarming trend in…
Story | 22 Mar, 2019
From 19 to 21 March, the BRIDGE GBM Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Network, through the BRIDGE Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) programme facilitated by IUCN, organised a workshop in Sreemangal, Bangladesh, on the week of World Water Day. The workshop aimed to enhance CSO understanding of…
Story | 22 Mar, 2019
Last November 2018, IUCN, through its Mekong WET project, and the Department of Freshwater and Wetlands Conservation (DFWC) of the Ministry of Environment (MoE) in Cambodia, organised a three-day Ramsar Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (R-METT) Training…
Story | 20 Mar, 2019
Roadmap to Tanzania’s first miombo nature reserve
Blog by Kasukura Nyamaka. My work for SUSTAIN is based in the far western region of Tanzania, in the Sumbawanga cluster of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT). It is a resource-rich region inhabited mainly by the Fipa people who maintain themselves by subsistence…