Story | 09 Apr, 2019
GIS maps, storytelling and authoritative documents can now be combined to offer an enhanced experience of conservation and biodiversity data.
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
Global Plastics Challenge in the Spotlight at UN Environment Assembly
Environment Ministers, along with development and environmental practitioners, from around the world recently gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4). This is the world’s highest-level decision-making body for international…
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
IUCN contributes to top FAO report
In February, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published the State of World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture.
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
Getting priorities right for tourism and protected areas
The 2019 World Protected Areas Leaders’ Forum (WPALF) was convened by Parks Victoria in Melbourne and the Wilson’s Promontory National Park from 25-29 March, with a focus on the role of tourism in protected and conserved areas.
Story | 09 Apr, 2019
IUCN lists 6 more new sites as world’s best protected areas
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has admitted six new natural sites to the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas – the first global standard recognising best practice in protected areas. Sites in France and Mexico received the certification at a meeting of the…
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!