News | 27 Feb, 2024
The IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force is pleased to announce the creation of 33 new Important Marine Mammal Areas, called IMMAs, in the North East Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea.
Story | 19 Feb, 2024
Kiwa: Guardian of the ocean inspires project name
Buried under the Pacific Ocean, there lie hidden worlds of wonder and surprise.
News | 15 Feb, 2024
Empowering Blue Futures: Launch of the ReSea Project in Madagascar
The ReSea Project, a $30 million CAD initiative supported by Global Affairs Canada and led by Mission Inclusion and the IUCN, launched today in Antsiranana, Madagascar, aiming to boost climate resilience and economic empowerment for 275,000 people across the Indian Ocean region.
Story | 13 Feb, 2024
IUCN Rwanda Country Office knowledge products
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature - IUCN opened an office in Rwanda in 2016, in order to support the Government of Rwanda in achieving its overall conservation and development objectives. Since then, it has implemented various projects that have contributed to Rwanda’s…
Page | 13 Feb, 2024
The NbS Management Hub helps drive efforts to scale up Nature-based Solutions and supports the uptake of the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions, its mainstreaming in national policies and strategic plans as well as in financial decision-making.
Page | 01 Feb, 2024
Promoting Pacific Island Nature-based Solutions (PPIN)
Promoting NbS in the Oceania region
Story | 02 Feb, 2024
In a significant stride toward sustainable blue carbon restoration, the Blue Carbon Accelerator Fund (BCAF) has unveiled the four winners of its latest Readiness call for project proposals. These exceptional projects stood out for their innovative approaches to differing challenges in the…
Grey literature | 2021
This report is a consolidation of in-country data gathered during 2020 in three Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and St. Lucia. For the purpose of this report, all regional data analysis is based on these countries only. Data collection encompassed three sectors — household and…
News | 09 Dec, 2023
Six countries and UN agency join vital global partnership to advance Nature-based Solutions
Dubai, UAE, 9 December 2023 (IUCN) – Six new countries and a United Nations agency are joining the ENACT Partnership, an ambitious global initiative that seeks to coordinate global efforts to address climate change, land and ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss through Nature-…
Grey literature | 2021
Pacific Regional Report (Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu) for the Plastic Waste Free Islands project
This report is a consolidation of in-country data gathered during 2020 in three Pacific countries: Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu. For the purpose of this report, all regional data analysis is based on these countries only. Data collection encompassed three sectors — household and commercial, tourism…