Story | 07 Jul, 2016
Extensive update process underway on Mediterranean biodiversity
A new initiative promoted by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) to develop an extensive update to all species, sites and conservation issues in the Mediterranean region has been recently launched.
Story | 20 Jun, 2016
New lionfish sightings in Turkey and Cyprus Marine Protected Areas
This concerns an invasive species in the Mediterranean with potential serious economic and ecologic consequences that has already caused damage in other regions such as the United States and the Caribbean.
Story | 13 Jun, 2016
The project "Promoting the value of key biodiversity areas (KBAs) in North Africa through the involvement of civil society organizations in their conservation and management ", funded by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), concludes with the publication of three studies conducted in…
Story | 13 Jun, 2016
Advanced course on Protected Areas and socioecological landscape planning
The International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) of Zaragoza, in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature - Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (IUCN-Med), is offering an advanced course on Protected Areas and socioecological landscape…
Story | 10 Jun, 2016
Wildlife trade and dams putting natural World Heritage at risk – IUCN
Natural World Heritage sites face major threats, such as commercial logging, poaching, gillnet fishing and dams, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In its recommendations to the World Heritage Committee, which meets in July, IUCN has advised that three…
Story | 01 Jun, 2016
Celebrating the Fascination of plants day in the Mediterranean
The organization of Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) has organized three monitoring visits from 9 to 20 May to celebrate the Fascination of plants day in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRM) . Young people were majority among the participants on these events. They had the…
Press release | 10 May, 2016
New IUCN-Toyota partnership to expand knowledge of threats to global biodiversity
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) today announced a five-year partnership to provide funding to broaden the scope of The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This will significantly increase knowledge on the extinction risk of more…
Story | 22 Mar, 2016
World Water Day - Blog: 'Why investing in natural water infrastructure will pay off'
By Renat Heuberger, CEO of the South Pole Group, and Mark Smith, Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme. Why did a group of bankers and fund managers spend an afternoon in a Zurich café talking about nature? For opportunity and innovation
Story | 19 Feb, 2016
Barcelona Convention promotes the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas
The IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas has been recognized as a Flagship Initiative under the Mediterranean Strategy on Sustainable Development (MSSD) 2016-2025, adopted during the 19th Convention of the Parties of the Barcelona Convention, held in Athens from the 9th to the 11th…
Story | 15 Feb, 2016
Ministers committed to reduce pressures on marine and coastal environment in the Mediterranean
Ministers from Mediterranean countries and parties contracted to the Barcelona Convention, today renewed their commitment to enhance measures to reduce pressures on their marine and coastal environment through the Athens Declarations.