Story | 19 Sep, 2016
Valuing lessons learned leading to good practice: crab resources enhancement in Bang Son Bay
Community-based coastal resources management works: IUCN recently visited two successful ‘crab banks’ in Bang Son Bay, where crab resources are enhanced by keeping female crabs in a shelter until they hatch their eggs, allowing them to release thousands of offspring into the sea. These crab…
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
Diversidad Socio Ambiental de los territorios indígenas en los bosques amazónicos
En un encuentro en el Congreso Mundial de la Naturaleza Hawai’i 2016 se conoció sobre los mecanismos que permiten cuidar la diversidad socio ambiental de los territorios indígenas en los bosques amazónicos.
Story | 29 Aug, 2016
IUCN Congress set to debate new global policy on biodiversity offsets
As governments and business struggle to reconcile conservation and economic goals, the IUCN World Conservation Congress will debate the first-ever global policy on biodiversity offsets -- a mechanism increasingly used to compensate for the residual negative impacts of development projects on…
Story | 18 Aug, 2016
Blog: Vulture conservation − Changing our conservation approach for the better
In South Asia, vulture populations have reduced drastically since 1990s due to veterinary use of pain-killers. Highlighting some recent developments in Bangladesh, this article explains how conserving vultures gives us an opportunity to change the…
Story | 26 Jul, 2016
Restoration commitments from Africa push the Bonn Challenge beyond 100 million hectares
Ministers from Guinea, the Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana have voiced their commitments today to restore 11.5 million hectares of degraded forests at a high-level roundtable in Kigali, Rwanda.
Grey literature | 2015
This document presents methodological approaches for estimating atmospheric carbon removals from forest landscape restoration initiatives at two scales: programs and projects.
Story | 28 Jun, 2016
Bellagio Action Agenda calls for more landscape partnerships with private sector
Bellagio, Italy, 31 May - 2 June, 2016 -- The future of sustainable agriculture goes beyond the fence, farm and even the supply chain, according to an expert workshop that has created a four-pronged Action Agenda to advance the impact and prevalence of landscape partnerships with strong private…
Story | 23 Jun, 2016
EU Member States agree on joint steps on environmental protection
EU Environment Ministers met earlier this week to advance the debate on issues related to wildlife trafficking, the circular economy and climate change.
Story | 08 Jun, 2016
EU Green Week Event: Making money through landscape restoration
In this year’s edition of European Green Week, which took place from 30 May to 3 June 2016, the focus was on ‘Investing for a greener future.’ Green Week is one of the most prominent annual events to debate and discuss European environment policy. IUCN participated in this debate by organising a…
Story | 30 May, 2016
IUCN recommends five World Heritage listings
IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, recommends World Heritage status for five sites nominated for their outstanding natural values. The advisory body on natural World Heritage, IUCN also recommends action against major threats in listed natural sites and danger-listing for two…