Story | 04 Mar, 2019
Finland Publishes the Most Comprehensive Red List of Ecosystems in the World
The results of the extensive assessment for the Red List of all of Finland’s terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems were published in December 2018. The threat status of ecosystem or habitat types in Finland was now evaluated for the second time, using this time the new assessment methodology called…
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
Call for expressions of interest: experts on marine protected areas
IUCN is looking for expressions of interest from key experts to be involved in project development and/or implementation for an EU funded action to support specific Marine Protected Areas and/or degraded coastal and marine ecosystems around two basins: the South-…
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
IUCN ROWA new marine project in Lebanon, thanks to the generous contribution of 9 million NOK from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beirut.
DG Statement | 04 Mar, 2019
IUCN Director General’s statement for International Women’s Day 2019
We are all fighters in the global battle for gender equality. And as we fast approach International Women’s Day we should rightly celebrate our successes, while also highlighting the areas where the world urgently needs more progress.
Story | 01 Mar, 2019
Towards an EU sustainable future: the missing sense of urgency
Luc Bas, Director of the European Regional office, speaking at the Public hearing on the EU Reflection Paper ‘Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030’ using the SDG wedding cake to show that the biosphere is the foundation of sustainable development.
Story | 01 Mar, 2019
Call for participation and paper submission
Ha Long Bay Management Board and IUCN would like to invite businesses, scientists, and professionals from Vietnam and abroad to attend and deliver presentations at "Workshop on technology and management solutions to wastewater from tour boats…
Story | 01 Mar, 2019
Nature-based solutions in practice: the example of the Namey Nichu watershed in Bhutan
As part of the BMUB-IKI funded Scaling Up Mountain Ecosystem Based Adaptation project, an IUCN delegation from the Asia Regional Office and Nepal Country Office visited Bhutan in January to learn about the implementation of Payment for Ecosystem…
Story | 28 Feb, 2019
Finland Publishes the Most Comprehensive Red List of Ecosystems in the World
The results of the extensive assessment for the Red List of all of Finland’s terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems were published in December 2018. The threat status of ecosystem or habitat types in Finland was now evaluated for the second time, using this time the new assessment methodology called…
Story | 28 Feb, 2019
Three updated online tools to support protected area decision-making
There are a growing number of decision-support tools to support biodiversity-related decision-making. In this article, we highlight three new and newly upgraded platforms, which are directly related to sharing information…
Story | 27 Feb, 2019
Observing the Earth to enforce environmental law
enviroLENS, a Horizon 2020 innovation project funded by the European Commission, aims to demonstrate and promote the use of Earth Observation as direct evidence for environmental law enforcement. By using European satellite capacities, such as…