Story | 08 Jun, 2020
IUCN and The Ocean Race join forces in global sports-conservation partnership
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has established a unique collaboration with The Ocean Race to work together, combining global sports events with powerful conservation activities, having impacts that will amplify awareness towards sustainability and essential…
Story | 05 Jun, 2020
From Social Solidarity to Economic Solidarity
CEESP News: by Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir*
The citizens are aspiring for a transformational mission for a legitimate state to provide for universal basic needs and to ensure fundamental rights of its citizens. On the economic front, the…
Story | 05 Jun, 2020
Conservation, Economic Reactivation and COVID-19 in Peruvian Amazon Indigenous Communities
CEESP News: by Ana Watson & Conny Davidsen, University of Calgary. Department of Geography - Environmental Governance Research Group. University of Calgary*
The COVID-19 crisis calls us to critically analyze the role of the state in extraction and conservation projects in…
Story | 03 Jun, 2020
COVID-19 and a new form of conservation
CEESP News - Blog post by Robert Fletcher, Bram Büscher & Kate Massarella, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Story | 03 Jun, 2020
CEESP News: by Jinfeng Zhou, Linda Wong, Charlotte Hong, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation*
Emergent e-commerce benefits peoples daily lives in numerous ways, but it has also made illegal wildlife trade easy and convenient. During COVID-19, Chinese civil…
Story | 30 May, 2020
Training of women wool workers on non- woven wool craft using innovative women friendly technology.
Household wool-craft industry languishing in Phojal watershed of Himachal Pradesh gets a new lease of life after a training programme on innovative non-woven woolen felt technology conducted by IUCN India. The training programme is a part of…
Story | 29 May, 2020
International wildlife trade: research and COVID-19
CEESP News: by Dr. Inés Arroyo-Quiroz, Chair of the CEESP Specialist Group on Green Criminology & Researcher at CRIM - UNAM, Mexico
Wildlife trade involves far more than animals harvested in tropical regions and sold in China. Most regions of the world play a role. Here Dr. Inés…
Story | 20 May, 2020
On Friday, 17 April 2020, Skype meeting with designated nodal officials from State Forest departments and Government officials from National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board (NAEB) was held to apprise the nodal officers about IUCN-MoEFCC…
Story | 13 May, 2020
Blue Finance builds an alliance to monetise and more effectively protect Marine Protected Areas
A key obstacle to effectively managing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is a lack of economic resources, but at the Oriental Mindoro MPA in the Philippines, a consortium of dedicated partners is turning one of the world`s most productive ecosystems…
Story | 05 May, 2020
Renaissance of a protected area in Democratic Republic of Congo
A participatory and inclusive consulatation process has breathed new life into the Mangai Hunting Domain and Hippopotamus Reserve. Here's how.