Story | 11 Jan, 2021
COVID-19, Indigenous peoples, local communities and natural resource governance: a preliminary study
CEESP News: contribution by Gretchen Walters and Samir Laouadi, University of Lausanne *
A collaborative study reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Indigenous peoples and local…
Story | 11 Jan, 2021
Coastal Community Associations: A model for sustainable development at the Kenyan coast
CEESP News by Tilda Bowden, Creative Writing editor of the Lucy Writers’ Platform on behalf of the Oceans Alive Trust, Kenya
Kuruwitu Fishers on the north coast of Kenya were driven to the brink of survival by unregulated and exploitative fish harvesting and were prompted to start a…
Story | 08 Jan, 2021
Communities combating fisheries crime and reef destruction
CEESP News by Venkat Ramakrishnan *
Reef Check Malaysia has been working on the ground addressing many challenges while protecting coral reefs and marine life in Malaysia. In this article, they describes how dangerous fish bombs are to marine life and local livelihoods, and how they are…
Story | 08 Jan, 2021
Chakay - the Mexican MPA experience of sustainable ecolabeling and traceability
Achieving Sustainability Principles and applying the Criteria for Management and Eco-labelling in fishing and touristic activities in the in the Mexican Caribbean, specifically in the Sian Ka’an and Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserves has been a complex yet very interesting process.
This…
Story | 08 Jan, 2021
IUCN Green List helps Huangshan Scenic Area in integrated management of three UNESCO designations
Huangshan Scenic Area sits in the south of the Chinese province of Anhui. It was approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China in 1982, covering a territory of 160.6 km2 and home to around 5000 residents. Characterised by a granite forest landscape, it includes 77 mountains…
Story | 06 Jan, 2021
Women, Conflict, and Modern Mining in Rwanda during COVID-19
CEESP News: by Laine Munir *
Our ethnography examines how Rwanda’s current process of formalization and regulation of mining may impact rural women’s experiences with environmental, structural, and physical conflicts near extraction sites. In light of COVID-19’s socioeconomic effects,…
Story | 04 Jan, 2021
IUCN Global Gender Working Group seeks to increase knowledge about the link between gender equality, empowerment of women in management and conservation under the Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas Standard.
Story | 04 Jan, 2021
Quebec meets UN Convention’s Terrestrial Protected Area Target of 17%
The total area of the province of Quebec, Canada is 1,668 Million square km, larger than countries such as Iran, Peru, and South Africa. On December 17, 2020, the Premier of Quebec François Legault and the Environment and Climate Change Minister Benoît…
Story | 14 Dec, 2020
5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5) is on, new dates announced.
The new dates for IMPAC5, Vancouver, Canada, have been announced: 3-9 February, 2023. Co-hosts IUCN and the Canadian Government, together with the international committee for IMPAC5, invite you to prepare.
Blog | 10 Dec, 2020
Inspiration from half a world away
An inspiring group of women from Central America has recently made me feel particularly lucky to do the kind of work that I do with the Forest and Farm Facility. Women from the Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques are changing the game, at the local level and at…