Story | 12 Jan, 2017
Growing global population and affluence means there are increasing and multiple demands on forest and other ecosystems to produce commodities and provide ecosystems services. While the demands for production continue to grow, the restrictions on where and how we can produce and protect become…
Story | 12 Jan, 2017
A look back at 2016: Biodiversity conservation in the Indo-Burma region
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in the Indo-Burma region will enter the new year with renewed optimism after making significant progress towards biodiversity conservation in 2016.
Story | 11 Jan, 2017
It started with ten farmers sitting around a fire: a tale of a community forestry enterprise
Nearly a decade has passed since a small group of farmers gathered around a fire to lament the increasing costs of their trade, and the toll that modern practices and inputs was taking on their land. As the embers of the fire settled, they resolved to take action to improve their farms,…
Story | 10 Jan, 2017
New “Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Biodiversity”
The „Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Biodiversity“ (ORF BD) is the latest addition of the ongoing Open Regional Fund Program that is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale…
Story | 09 Jan, 2017
Tomorrow's production systems will be closer to nature
This blog by Gerard Bos was first published by the World Economic Forum on 3 January 2017.
The global economy has been a steady engine of growth for nearly six decades, and during this time there have been a number of positive advances for humankind. But the fourth industrial revolution…
Story | 30 Dec, 2016
Application des lignes directrices de la CEDEAO au barrage d’Adjaralla
Le Bénin et le Togo s’apprêtent à construire sur le fleuve Mono le barrage hydro-électrique d’Adjaralla. Une séance de concertation entre les Partis Prenantes a été organisée du 19 au 21 décembre afin d’assurer l’application des lignes directrices au cours de sa construction.
Story | 30 Dec, 2016
Service Procurement Notice (Albania)
Consultancy for the delivery of the Scoping Study on Ecosystem Services and their role in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Albania - a call announced within the project “Towards Strengthening Conservation Planning in South-Eastern Europe”, funded by MAVA Foundation.
Story | 30 Dec, 2016
Service Procurement Notice (Serbia)
Consultancy for the delivery of the Scoping Study on Ecosystem Services and their role in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Serbia - a call announced within the project “Towards Strengthening Conservation Planning in South-Eastern Europe”, funded by MAVA Foundation.
Story | 26 Dec, 2016
Representatives of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam recently met in Bangkok to discuss the objectives and work plan of the newly established Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI). IBRRI was approved by the 52nd meeting of the Ramsar Convention Standing Committee (SC 52)…
Story | 20 Dec, 2016
Ten countries collaborate to kickstart restoration work
More than 50 representatives and project team members from 10 Asian and African countries gathered in Douala, Cameroon, last month to begin work on The Restoration Initiative (TRI) – an IUCN-led programme to help these countries define and achieve forest landscape restoration commitments under…