Story | 22 May, 2017
Cacao tourism and an unexpected partner in forest landscape restoration in Guatemala
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is simultaneously boosting tourism, creating jobs and enhancing biological connectivity in the Guatemalan highlands with the help of the diverse membership of the national FLR roundtable.
Story | 26 Apr, 2017
Governance Diversity for Belize
Based on the PARKS 23.1 paper A Governance Spectrum: Protected Areas in Belize.
Story | 18 Apr, 2017
Voices of the future: Involving youth in restoration
Young people have immense potential to contribute to forest conservation and restoration. Watch our video and read on to see how and why IUCN is harnessing their knowledge and skills to tackle some of the world's most pressing issues.
Story | 21 Mar, 2017
World Water Day: An opportunity to promote water protection as a driver for cooperation
There are 263 transboundary river basins worldwide, 23 of those are located in Mesoamerica, representing 36.9% of Central America´s territory and covering a greater extension than any of its countries.
Story | 14 Mar, 2017
It was space for dialogue and exchange among stakeholders from the Goascorán binational river basin, where important topics were addressed related to water and natural resources good management in a transboundary context facing climatic changes.
Story | 08 Mar, 2017
Empowering women in water management - International Women's Day 2017
IUCN is committed to gender equality. To support International Women's Day, the Water Programme compiled some of their most recent efforts to empower women in decisions and actions for sustainable water management.
Story | 07 Mar, 2017
Women are part of the solution for good resource management in the Goascoran river basin, shared between Honduras and El Salvador, they work together to conserve it and to have access to water in its different uses.
Story | 06 Mar, 2017
Strengthening Saint Lucia’s Protected Area Policy Framework
The Government of St. Lucia will be working to execute legal, regulatory, financial, policy and communications strategies and actions to formally adopt and implement the Saint Lucia’s Systems Plan for Protected Areas.
Story | 21 Feb, 2017
Advances on bioprospecting and ABS legislation in the Caribbean
Presentations on bioprospecting in the Caribbean region as well as the development of legislation on ABS for the participating countries, were submitted during the third regional workshop on the project “Advancing the Nagoya Protocol in Counties of the Caribbean Region”, held in Bridgetown…
Story | 14 Feb, 2017
Strengthening Environmental Education in the Sixaola River Basin
As part of the efforts to improve teaching of environmental education in schools in the Sixaola River basin area, and identifying needs by the Champions of Sixaola; the BRIDGE project organized a workshop named “Training for Trainers on Environmental Education”