Story | 07 Oct, 2016
IUCN informs key decisions at the CITES conference on wildlife trade
This article was also published in The Huffington Post
At the recently concluded 17th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Conference of the Parties (CoP17) – the largest meeting of its kind ever held – IUCN helped inform a number of landmark…
Story | 06 Oct, 2016
Growing support for regulating international trade in rays and sharks
Governments from around the world took solid steps toward ray and shark conservation at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Johannesburg, South Africa when they included commercially fished shark and ray species on CITES…
Story | 06 Oct, 2016
Asia Protected Areas Partnership continues to gain momentum
IUCN Asia’s regional protected areas initiative, the Asia Protected Areas Partnership (APAP), has made significant headway with the adoption of the APAP constitution, alongside several other new developments.
Story | 06 Oct, 2016
Indonesia: Forest Landscape Restoration manual launched
On September 29, IUCN and World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia organised a technical workshop on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event saw the launch of the Indonesian version of the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) manual.…
Story | 05 Oct, 2016
Reflections on a forest journey
IUCN World Conservation Congress Forest Journey is complete. What did we learn?
Press release | 04 Oct, 2016
Tropical Andes freshwater species at risk – first IUCN Red List assessment
Almost 18% of the freshwater biodiversity endemic to the Tropical Andes region of Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Colombia is threatened with extinction on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, according to a recent assessment by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and…
Story | 04 Oct, 2016
How can we best engage local communities to help high value species survive when faced with the growing threat of illegal wildlife trade? This was the focus of discussions at a recent event organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which brought together…
Story | 03 Oct, 2016
Blog: 'Can’t see the water for the trees?' By James Dalton et al.
Originally published in Global Water Forum, Monday 3 October 2016. To maximise downstream water quantity, you remove vegetation – all of it, including the trees. To counter rising carbon dioxide levels, you plant trees – lots of them. How should we do both?
Story | 29 Sep, 2016
Restoring mangroves to boost coastal resilience
Over the past three years, IUCN has been working with Marriott Hotels & Resorts in Thailand to restore around nine hectares of mangroves. More than 50,000 mangrove trees have been planted in Thailand as a result of the project, which also works with local communities to take care of the…