Story | 23 Sep, 2019
Can producing cocoa help Colombia achieve its climate targets?
Colombia holds significant potential to combat climate change by establishing forestry and agroforestry systems on degraded land. Opportunities for restoration can also be found through improvements to pasture and cattle management as well as the conversion of degraded pastures to sustainable…
Story | 23 Sep, 2019
Guidance on estimating the mitigation potential of restoration
New practical guidance is now availible to estimate the mitigation potential of forest landscape restoration and help inspire countries to take more climate action, and increase their ambition to remove and avoid carbon dioxide emissions.
Story | 18 Sep, 2019
Online Survey: Life in Conservation
By Thomas Pienkowski, PhD Candidate from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science at the University of Oxford.
Do you work, study, or do research in conservation? The Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS) would like to learn about your #lifeinconservation…
Story | 16 Sep, 2019
CEESP News: by Kristen Walker Paniemilla, Chair of CEESP
There is much happening across the Commission. These last few months, the IUCN family has focused efforts on the preparation of WCC forum proposals, motions and revisions to the WCC Program. In this letter, I will share just a few…
Story | 12 Sep, 2019
Where culture, spirituality and conservation meet
CEESP News: by the SCB Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group & the IUCN CEESP Theme on Culture, Spirituality and Conservation
This short film is about some of the places where culture, spirituality and conservation meet, and why working together could make all the…
Story | 11 Sep, 2019
Reflections on gender, fisheries and managing the environment: Solomon Islands case study
CEESP News: by Duta Bero Kauhiona and CEESP member Whitney Yadao-Evans
Publishing a research article under The Pacific Community (SPC), the authors investigate the boundaries of gender, women's empowerment, and natural resource management in the fisheries sector of Solomon Islands
Story | 06 Sep, 2019
Aligning restoration commitments could boost global land health – IUCN report
By aligning land restoration commitments countries could bring more degraded land back to health, according to a new IUCN report launched today at the ongoing Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in New Delhi.
Story | 06 Sep, 2019
Valientes mujeres guatemaltecas de la Selva Maya apuntan a la conservación de las áreas protegidas
Este evento coincidió con el Día Internacional de la Mujer Indígena. Como parte del respeto a la cultura y del fortalecimiento de la participación efectiva, se contó con el apoyo de un traductor del español a la lengua Q'eqchí.
Story | 04 Sep, 2019
Lessons for CEESP and Ways forward: Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Conservation Forum
CEESP News: by Mersie Ejigu, IUCN CEESP Africa Region Vice Chair
The 2019 IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) expressed commitment to upscaling sound ecosystem restoration and natural resource governance schemes.
This bodes well for CEESP's…
Story | 03 Sep, 2019
The Restoration Tracker: an interview
Making a pledge to the Bonn Challenge to bring landscapes under restoration is an important first step, but that may actually be the easiest part. The intertwined, complex moving parts between making that pledge and actually restoring landscapes to…