Story | 26 Mar, 2020
Balkhila Model Forest: The first of its kind in the Indian Himalayan Region
Towards the objective of building community resilience to climate change in the Indian Himalayan Region, IUCN recognized the importance of reconciliation between stakeholders and the need to support local economies in their different approaches,…
Story | 23 Mar, 2020
Conservation through private initiative: A case study in the Western Ghats, India
CEESP News - by Venkat Ramakrishnan, CEESP member
This is the story of indigenous people living in or near one of the Western Ghats’ forests, and their right to continue living there with a sense of dignity and purpose.
Story | 12 Mar, 2020
Report: Blue Infrastructure Finance, where all win
All coastal and marine ecosystems are critical to human well-being and global biodiversity. Mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass beds are examples of these. But urban and rural infrastructure investments are having a heavy negative impact on these systems, and it is…
Story | 11 Mar, 2020
Sikkim Workshop on Resilient Himalayan Environment and Community
Under Coping with Uncertainties project (CwU), IUCN organized one day state level workshop entitled “Building Resilient Himalayan Environment & Community” on 21st February 2020 at Gangtok, Sikkim.
Blog | 08 Mar, 2020
Strategies for integrating gender in sustainable ecosystem management
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are matters of fundamental human rights and prerequisites to meeting sustainable development goals around the world.
Story | 25 Nov, 2019
Tangled roots and changing tides: law at the service of mangrove conservation and sustainable use
A pioneering global study details the legal and institutional frameworks governing mangroves and proposes solutions to address gaps and weaknesses identified.
Story | 07 Nov, 2019
Islamabad, Pakistan, 6 November 2019 -The 7th International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Asia Regional Conservation Forum – one of Asia’s most important nature conservation events - kicked-off today with a strong focus on convening a…
Story | 08 Oct, 2019
From 23 to 26 September, IUCN Lao PDR organised a citizen journalism training in Champhone district, Savannakhet province. Around 30 community members from the 16 villages located within the Xe Champhone Ramsar site and staff from the District and Provincial Offices of the Natural Resources and…
Story | 19 Sep, 2019
India is one of 17 mega-biodiverse countries in the world, and has many conservation success stories to record and share. The WII-organised one day workshop, designed to teach PANORAMA, resulted in 8 valuable 'solution' case studies, mainly targeting protected areas from the Ganga river to the…
Story | 26 Aug, 2019
IUCN boosts climate change coping initiatives, supports agroforestry in Sikkim, India
As part of the ‘Coping with Uncertainties: Building Community Resilience and Ecosystem Based Adaptation to Climate Change in the Indian Himalayan Region’ project, IUCN took part in the green initiative “A Day for Mother Earth” to raise awareness of the negative impacts of climate change in…