Press release | 23 Nov, 2008
India’s wild medicinal plants threatened by over-exploitation
India is a hub of the wild-collected plant medicine industry in Asia, but key species have declined due to over-collection to supply domestic and foreign medicinal markets, according to IUCN and TRAFFIC researchers.
Story | 17 Nov, 2008
Natural resource dependence, livelihoods and development: Perceptions from Tanga, Tanzania
Natural resource dependence, livelihoods and development: Perceptions from Tanga, Tanzania (IUCN-ESARO 2008)
Story | 17 Nov, 2008
Natural resource dependence, livelihoods and development: Synthesis of key recommendations for Kenya and Tanzania (IUCN ESARO 2008)
Story | 17 Nov, 2008
Natural resource dependence, livelihoods and development: Mariculture exchange between Kenya and Tanzania (IUCN ESARO 2008)
Story | 13 Nov, 2008
Guidelines for establishing marine protected areas
This text offers authoritative advice on the present day planning, policies and practices for marine protected areas. The Guidelines are intended primarily to help nations and states to establish national representative systems of marine protected areas as a vital component of…
Press release | 09 Nov, 2008
Quarter of northeast Atlantic sharks and rays threatened with extinction
The release of the first ever IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ assessment of northeast Atlantic sharks, rays and chimaeras reveals that 26 percent are threatened with extinction and another 20 percent are in the Near Threatened category.