Press release | 28 Oct, 2010
Deadline Life – Nagoya defines future for life on earth
Governments meeting at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) have approved a step change for biodiversity: a new Strategic Plan for the next ten years to reduce the current pressures on the planet’s biodiversity and take urgent action to save…
Press release | 26 Oct, 2010
The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according to a study launched today at the 10th Conference of the Parties to…
Story | 26 Oct, 2010
Marine World Heritage: the time is now
Marine World Heritage: Protecting the ‘best of the best’ in the ocean
Press release | 26 Oct, 2010
Prize Goes to Forests in Madagascar and Brazil
The 2010 IUCN-Reuters-COMplus Media Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting goes to Anjali Nayar and Juliane von Mittelstaedt for their articles on saving the forests in Madagascar and Brazil.
Story | 13 Oct, 2010
This paper reflects on the potential of applying the 'theory of change' as a useful tool in participatory monitoring and self-evaluation in livelihoods and landscapes strategies.
Story | 26 Sep, 2010
This document is an updated version of the "Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) Guidelines for Learning and Adaptive Management in LLS Geographic Component and Landscapes" that LLS produced in September 2008. It reflects LLS experience in applying the PM&E methodology up to…
Press release | 19 Sep, 2010
Environment and gender equality: the keys to achieving Millennium Development Goals
Achieving gender equality is fundamental to sustainable development and to attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the eradication of poverty and hunger. This is expected to be one of the major conclusions of world leaders and development experts at the 2010…
Press release | 16 Sep, 2010
Biodiversity where it belongs at top of UN agenda
UN’s first ever high level event on biodiversity: September 22, New York, US
Story | 06 Sep, 2010
By Marcus Colchester.