Press release | 29 Jan, 2020
Environmental degradation driving gender-based violence – IUCN study
Gland, Switzerland, 29 January 2020 (IUCN) – The degradation of nature can lead to gender-based violence including sexual assault, domestic violence and forced prostitution, according to a…
Blog | 28 Jan, 2020
Threats to the environment are interlinked with gender-based violence across multiple contexts
Around the world, rooted in discriminatory gender norms and shrouded in impunity, gender-based violence (GBV) occurs in all societies as a means of control, subjugation and exploitation that further feeds gender inequality.
Story | 14 Jan, 2020
Conducting a beach debris monitoring programme in the coastal areas of Viet Nam
On January 1, 2020, Thailand introduced a ban on single-use plastic bags with the participation of 75 department stores, convenience stores and other shops with more than 24,500 branches nationwide.
Story | 13 Jan, 2020
Young Myanmar researchers receive award for marine mammal research in the Gulf of Mottama
A little over one year ago, we confirmed - with our own eyes - the presence of Indo-Pacific Finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides, Vulnerable) and Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris, Endangered) in the coastal waters of the Gulf of Mottama.
Story | 08 Jan, 2020
Pedro Rosabal Gonzalez, unsung hero in a life of protected areas and nature conservation
Our friend and colleague Pedro Rosabal Gonzalez, who served as Deputy Director of the Global Protected Areas Programme, left IUCN at the end of November 2019 after an extensive period of medical leave. Pedro made his mark on the programme, and was one of those unsung heroes who has dedicated his…
Story | 08 Jan, 2020
Creating value in the wildlife economy
Dr Sue Snyman used studies of southern African protected areas, their tourist facilities, and their communities, to answer questions of why conservation in these African nations makes the wildlife economy valuable (at the Global Wildlife Program annual conference, 2019, in Pretoria, South Africa…
Story | 03 Jan, 2020
Prioritising interventions to abate plastic pollution through plastic pollution hotspot methodology
At the World Water Week in Sweden in August 2019, IUCN launched a report on the need to develop a standard methodology to measure the extent of plastic pollution. To meet this need, IUCN and UN Environment Programme developed a “National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping…
Story | 30 Dec, 2019
A Reflection on Protected Areas in Serving Wildlife Migration: Endangered Oriental Storks
CEESP News: by Linda Wong and Jinfeng Zhou, Secretariat of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF).
Starving migratory Oriental Storks have been found in northeast China this wintering season. Field investigations found that the lack of food in…
Story | 30 Dec, 2019
The Historical Journey of Indigenous Peoples in Climate Change Negotiation
CEESP News: by Pasang Dolma Sherpa, PhD, Co-Chair of FWG, LCIPP of the UNFCCC. Pasang is also Co-Chair of the CEESP Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws & Human Rights Specialist Group (SPICEH)
Story | 28 Dec, 2019
Environmentally induced migration and impact on yam farmers in Benin
CEESP News: by Melanie Allen, CEESP member and Fulbright Scholar, Bénin 2018-2019.
Yam holds a special place in Beninese culture; apart from being one of the few staple crops that were not introduced during the colonial period such as rice and corn, yam is indigenous to this region and…