Story | 17 Jul, 2008
Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Biodiversity
McNeely, Jeffrey A.; Scherr, Sara J. Future Harvest, US; IUCN This comprehensive report outlines a new solution to the biodiversity extinction crisis, in response to its warnings that unless farmers and the world’s poorest peoples can learn to coexist with wildlife, hundreds of species may be…
Story | 17 Jul, 2008
IUCN; IUCN, Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation; Federation of European Aquaculture Producers; Spain, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Aquaculture currently faces a significant challenge: how to fulfill the expectation of alleviating the pressure that fishing fleets exercise on fish…
Story | 15 Jul, 2008
New World Heritage Sites for the Pacific
Twenty-seven new sites have recently been added to the internationally recognised World Heritage List, including three sites in the Pacific: Chief Roi Mata's Domain (Vanuatu), the Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Papua New Guinea) and the Lagoons of New Caledonia (France).
Press release | 15 Jul, 2008
Integrated Coastal Zone Management urged at the IUCN seminar
Enabling policies and effective action can help the country cope with emerging challenges of climate change and water shortage.Karachi, July 14, 2008 (IUCN) – A seminar titled “Coping with Coastal and Marine Challenges: Pan Asia Learning” was organized by IUCN (International Union…
Story | 15 Jul, 2008
Creating a Sea Change: The WWF/IUCN Marine Policy
Hinrichsen, Don; Wells, Susan M., ed. IUCN US; WWF WWF and IUCN have joined forces to outline a policy that will address the complexity of the oceans and coasts as well as our dependency on them. The challenge of protecting and sustainably managing marine natural resources, the last great source…
Story | 14 Jul, 2008
Agriculture in the lower Mekong basin: experience from the critical decade of 1966-1976
van Liere, Willem; McNeely, Jeffrey A. IUCN Based on a draft publication prepared in 1977, this book provides an essential historical dimension to current agricultural development activities. A concluding chapter, briefly summarising what has happened in the thirty years since the initial…
Press release | 10 Jul, 2008
28 EU overseas entities join forces for the first time to counter climate change - IUCN
For the first time the EU’s overseas entities have come together at a meeting in Reunion Island, calling for action on climate change impacts to help preserve nature, says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) at the Reunion Conference on Climate Change and Biodiversity in EU…
Press release | 10 Jul, 2008
One Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Extinction
One third of reef-building corals around the world are threatened with extinction, according to the first-ever comprehensive global assessment to determine their conservation status. The study findings were published today by Science Express.
Press release | 10 Jul, 2008
Small Island States call for greater regional cooperation – IUCN
A new report from IUCN shows that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) want to see better regional cooperation in the fight to counter the impacts of climate change.
Press release | 08 Jul, 2008
Eight new natural wonders for the World Heritage List
Eight new natural sites have been added to the World Heritage List, following IUCN’s recommendations.The new sites include the Socotra Archipelago in Yemen, Canada’s Joggins Fossil Cliffs, the French Lagoons of New Caledonia, Saryarka in Northern Kazakhstan, Mount Sanqingshan National Park in…