Story | 26 Jan, 2017
World Wetlands Day: Strengthening resilience and collaboration to reduce disaster risk
On February 2nd the world celebrates its wetlands – complex ecosystems that provide a wide variety of services and benefits for people and nature. Wetlands such as estuaries, mangroves, marshes, and swamps play, beyond their biological role, a key part in helping people cope with disasters. Yet…
Story | 25 Jan, 2017
The five years long project “Institutional Support to the management of Protected Areas in Albania” has come to its end, significantly contributing to the progress that has been made in the field of nature protection in Albania.
Story | 20 Jan, 2017
Mangroves for the Future (MFF) supports Integrated Costal Management capacity development in Myanmar
A Knowledge and Information Sharing Workshop on Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) Training and Academic courses in Myanmar was jointly organized by the Forest Department, Mangrove for the Future (MFF), and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at Summit Parkview hotel in Yangon…
Story | 10 Jan, 2017
Protected Areas for Nature and People
With its new protected areas programme WWF Adria strives for sustainable use of natural resources in the Dinaric Arc region as a foundation for the socio-economic development. It's about nature and people. One without another, according to WWF, can't exist. So the newest protected areas…
Story | 10 Jan, 2017
Glossy Ibis returns to Obedska Bara in Serbia
After half a century of absence ornithologists have confirmed the breeding of four pairs of Glossy Ibis in Obedska Bara reserve, IBA and Ramsar site on the left bank of the river Sava in Serbia, as well as the presence of 6-8 pairs of Eurasian Spoonbill, breeding last time in 1992. This is a…
Story | 10 Jan, 2017
Pelicans nest successfully on Lake Skadar
Recent conservation methods ornithologists have applied in the Special Reserve Pancevo eyes in Lake Skadar National Park resulted in the increased number of Dalmatian Pelicans (Pelecanus crispus). Artificial nesting platforms and info-boards banning the entrance to this area were placed and…
Story | 10 Jan, 2017
Nature-based tourism in Albania
The sustainable tourism in protected areas is still in its early stages of development in Albania. IUCN Member, the Institute for Nature Conservation in Albania (INCA) is encouraging and initiating it in the only marine protected area in the country, Karaburun-Sazan Marine National Park, through…
Story | 26 Dec, 2016
Representatives of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam recently met in Bangkok to discuss the objectives and work plan of the newly established Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI). IBRRI was approved by the 52nd meeting of the Ramsar Convention Standing Committee (SC 52)…
Story | 16 Dec, 2016
IUCN Green List makes Mexican waves
The thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Cancun, Mexico, saw a significant commitment to protected and conserved areas – in quantity and quality – the latter an important part of Aichi Target 11, which is the key global goal for…
Story | 15 Dec, 2016
Transforming Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Mongolia from a “Paper Park” to a Model Protected Area
by Richard P. Reading