Story | 05 Mar, 2019
Reporting on nature in the Caribbean and Central America
Caribbean and Central American countries gathered in Barbados to exchange best practices, share experiences and work around the Sixth National Report on Biodiversity
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
Under the Global Support Initiative for ICCAs, diverse and innovative approaches to mapping are helping to reveal more and more information about ICCAs, which is an abbreviation for the territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities.
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
The Georgian Expert Assessment Group for the Green List established
The Green List journey has started in earnest in Georgia, with the formation of an Expert Assessment Group for the Green List (EAGL). Comprised of national experts from a range of diverse backgrounds, the 10 members of the Georgian EAGL are ready to lead…
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
Call for expressions of interest: experts on marine protected areas
IUCN is looking for expressions of interest from key experts to be involved in project development and/or implementation for an EU funded action to support specific Marine Protected Areas and/or degraded coastal and marine ecosystems around two basins: the South-…
Story | 01 Mar, 2019
Nature-based solutions in practice: the example of the Namey Nichu watershed in Bhutan
As part of the BMUB-IKI funded Scaling Up Mountain Ecosystem Based Adaptation project, an IUCN delegation from the Asia Regional Office and Nepal Country Office visited Bhutan in January to learn about the implementation of Payment for Ecosystem…
Story | 28 Feb, 2019
Three updated online tools to support protected area decision-making
There are a growing number of decision-support tools to support biodiversity-related decision-making. In this article, we highlight three new and newly upgraded platforms, which are directly related to sharing information…
Story | 22 Feb, 2019
How South Africa will beat plastic pollution
Through the MARPLASTICCs project, IUCN is working with South Africa, one of the world’s top 20 contributors of marine plastic pollution, to close the plastic tap.
Story | 22 Feb, 2019
IUCN joins Fortune 500 companies to address plastic leaks in their supply chains
IUCN, together with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Life Cycle Initiative, have joined the strategic committee of a newly launched Plastic Leak Project (PLP), which aims to help…
Story | 20 Feb, 2019
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH) recently signed a cooperation agreement to support peer-to-peer learning under the PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet initiative.
Story | 20 Feb, 2019
WCEL announces a new regional report by Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao.