Story | 23 Aug, 2017
Pakistan exceeds Bonn Challenge commitment with Billion Tree Tsunami
The Bonn Challenge is a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the first sub-national entity to register with the Bonn Challenge for the restoration of forest in KP…
Story | 23 Aug, 2017
Gharials are a unique crocodilian threatened with extinction and with wild populations that have decreased precipitously due to habitat destruction and accidental killings by fishermen when caught in nets. The Bangladesh Forest Department and IUCN Bangladesh, in collaboration with Bangladesh zoo…
Story | 23 Aug, 2017
Elaboration of a beekeeping development project in the Bou Naceur IPA (Morocco)
The Jbel Bou Naceur Important Plant Area (IPA) represents the highest massif of the Middle Atlas with 3340m height. This massif is subjected to both oceanic and continental influences. The site also hosts numerous endemic floristic elements consisting of 60 species, 19 subspecies and 13…
Story | 22 Aug, 2017
Waste not, want not - Wastewater focus of World Water Week
Every year World Water Week draws the global spotlight onto the world’s water challenges and opportunities. This year, the focus is on wastewater. Over 80% of global wastewater is released untreated back into nature, causing detrimental impacts on water supplies, human health, the economy, and…
Grey literature | 2017
A workshop was held in Cambridge between March 20-22, 2017, to bring together the PiN team and the Global Species Programme (GSP) and TRAFFIC to discuss the inclusion of data from PiN landscape assessments within the Species Information Services (SIS), building on discussions held over the last…
Story | 22 Aug, 2017
How one NGO in Viet Nam is saving the world’s most trafficked mammal
Appearing somewhat like a cross between an anteater and a lizard, and rolling into a ball when threatened, the pangolin looks like nothing else on earth. Most people have never heard of them, let alone seen one – yet these creatures are the single most…
Story | 22 Aug, 2017
Update of the Ecosystem Profile for the Mediterranean: new opportunities for conservation funds
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) released the new Ecosystem Profile for the Mediterranean Basin Hotspot, valid for the next five years.
Story | 22 Aug, 2017
Field work and knowledge acquisition on endemic plants in the High Atlas (Morocco)
The Oriental High Atlas National Park consists of very uneven mountainous massifs with heights ranging from 1600m to more than 3000m. The vascular flora of the Park, considered by IUCN as an Important Plant Area (IPA), counts more than 300 taxa and endemics count about 46 species, 8 subspecies…
Story | 21 Aug, 2017
Transboundary coordination moves forward in the Sixaola River Basin
Launching of the first binational pilot project prepared by the Sixaola River Binational Basin Commission, and statement of interest in joining the UNECE Global Network of Basins Working on Climate Change.
Story | 15 Aug, 2017
Pakistan's largest ever eco-investment - "Billion Tree Tsunami" successfully surpasses its "Bonn Challenge" Commitment