Story | 30 Oct, 2011
arborvitae Issue 44 - Forests: a legal challenge
Story | 17 Oct, 2011
IUCN’s Caroline Edgar recently spent two weeks living, breathing and talking penguins on South Africa’s famous Robben Island and her life will never be the same.
Story | 05 Oct, 2011
Managing deep-seas fisheries: Challenges and opportunities
During a meeting held recently at the United Nations in New York, IUCN and The Nature Conservancy provided information on policy recommendations on how to improve the management of deep-sea fisheries and ecosystems. The recommendations were developed following a workshop jointly organized by TNC…
Story | 29 Sep, 2011
Implementing Conservation and Wise Use in Lao PDR’s two Ramsar sites
Since joining the Ramsar Convention last year, the Government of Lao PDR and its partners have stepped up implementation of the Convention and its principles of conservation and wise use of wetlands.
Press release | 29 Sep, 2011
Experts Identify World’s Most Threatened Sea Turtle Populations
Top sea turtle experts from around the globe have discovered that almost half (45%) of the world’s threatened sea turtle populations are found in the northern Indian Ocean. The study also determined that the most significant threats across all of the threatened populations of sea turtles are…
Story | 25 Sep, 2011
IUCN is deeply saddened by the loss of Wangari Maathai, one of Africa’s foremost environmental campaigners and a great advocate for social justice, human rights, peace and democracy. Wangari Maathai has passed away in Nairobi at the age of 71.
Story | 15 Sep, 2011
A new series of Water and Nature Initiative (WANI) case studies was recently launched during the Stockholm World Water Week.
Press release | 04 Sep, 2011
Whales & dolphins need more protected areas
A new book, Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises is released, calling for accelerated efforts to conserve marine mammals by protecting a greater area of the ocean. Currently only 1.3% of the ocean is protected but many new Marine Protected Areas are being created. Erich Hoyt…
Story | 18 Aug, 2011
Young writers' forest letter contest - Barbados and China win!
A Great Oak in Guyana’s Windsor Forest and an observant little tree ‘prepared to care for humanity’ helped 15-year-old Charlée Gittens from Barbados and 13-year-old Wang Sa from China to win gold medals in the Universal Postal Union’s 40th International Letter-Writing Competition for Young…
Story | 16 Aug, 2011
Water Vision to Action, Catalyzing Change through the IUCN Water & Nature Initiative (Results' Report)