Story | 20 Mar, 2019
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have gathered attention over the last decade with IUCN, the EU, The World Bank and the UN, among many players, exploring the different considerations necessary to implement nature as a solution.
Story | 15 Mar, 2019
IUCN Commission on Ecosystems Management (CEM) Mountain Ecosystem Specialist Group invites submissions of case studies on local and indigenous knowledge and conservation practices in Mountain Ecosystems.
Blog | 14 Mar, 2019
Pastoralism and the Restoration Agenda
Rangelands are currently neglected in the growing global restoration agenda, yet they are a major store of carbon and offer great possibilities for achieving environment and development goals in parallel. A conference on “Pastoralism and Rangeland Restoration” in June…
Story | 11 Mar, 2019
CEESP News: By Stan Stevens and Neema Pathak Broome, ICCA Consortium
Story | 06 Mar, 2019
Forest Rights Lost: Evictions Loom Over a Million Adivasis
By Dr Indrani Sigamany - How can the competing issues of conservation and indigenous rights work in harmony to ensure both forests and the livelihoods of their inhabitants are protected?
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 | 11 Feb, 2019
The conservation right: a new property right for sustainability
By Jaime Ubilla - Traditional property rights have existed for more than 2000 years, but today we are witnessing the development of a new kind of property right: a conservation right (“Conservation Right”), which has emerged from legal research conducted at the University of Edinburgh in the UK…
Story | 07 Feb, 2019
Caribbean ABS Week: Advances and Challenges for Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Three days of technical presentations related to accessing genetic resources and sharing of the benefits derived from their utilization, a Biodiversity Expo including cultural presentations on traditional knowledge by…
Story | 01 Feb, 2019
CEESP News - by TerraLingua
Being together, sharing food. More than any other activity, the preparation, and consumption of meals sets the rhythm of human life. Over thousands of years, different cultures have painstakingly fine-tuned their production of food and drink to optimize…
Story | 24 Jan, 2019
Transforming indigenous women’s lives through coffee and community in Bolivia
CEESP News - by Lydia Cardona, Conflict Resolution and Peace Manager, Conservation International