Story | 01 Apr, 2009
This report provides timely and important information on the extent of coral mortality throughout the Indian Ocean.
Story | 01 Apr, 2009
This second annual status report follows on from the first report that was based on initial assessments of coral mortality and presents the results of CORDIO’s first full year of monitoring and research.
Story | 01 Apr, 2009
This, CORDIO’s third status report, describes the condition of coral reefs throughout the central and western Indian Ocean and presents the results of several targeted research projects conducted within the last 18 months.
Story | 01 Apr, 2009
The assessments of 50 contributing authors focusing on coral reefs and related coastal ecosystems, and dependent communities in 9 countries in South Asia and the central and western Indian Ocean.
Story | 31 Mar, 2009
CORDIO 2008 Status Report on Indian Ocean coral reefs
This status report marks a decade of CORDIO in the Indian Ocean.
Story | 31 Mar, 2009
IUCN Director General in Lebanon to meet with Government Officials and IUCN members
IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre has called on the Lebanese government to take an active role as a member of IUCN. Visiting Beirut she stressed to Dr. Berj Hatjian, Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment that this will allow Lebanon an international stage on which it can…
Press release | 30 Mar, 2009
Wilderness Bill Clears the House on Its Second Go-Round
The New York Times, Mireya Navarro, 26 March 2009 The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to grant wilderness status to two million acres of public land in nine states from California to West Virginia, the largest expansion of protected national wild lands in 15 years.
Story | 27 Mar, 2009
IUCN Director General on a mission to the Levant Countries in West Asia
In a step towards lifting the local and regional conservation priorities to the international level, the Director General of IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Ms Julia Marton-Lefevre is undertaking a mission to the West Asia region, specifically to the Levant countries;…
Press release | 26 Mar, 2009
Six new protected areas created in Brazilian Amazonian state
On this Thursday, March 26th, the Amazonas state government will announce the new areas, totaling over 2.3 million hectares. They will complete the protected area mosaic in the BR-319 highway area of influence.