Grey literature | 2018
Mangroves are among the most important ecosystems on the planet. They provide nursery grounds for a wide variety of marine and landbased species, sustain livelihoods of coastal populations, and protection from ocean swell and extreme weather events. However, mangroves are being cleared, degraded…
Grey literature | 2018
Mangroves are among the most important ecosystems on the planet. They provide nursery grounds for a wide variety of marine and landbased species, sustain livelihoods of coastal populations, and protection from ocean swell and extreme weather events. However, mangroves are being cleared, degraded…
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…
Publication | 2019
Guidelines for the management of confiscated, live organisms
Illegal trade in wildlife has increased dramatically over the past decade; however, so have enforcement efforts aimed at mitigating this threat. Successful enforcement often involves the seizure and confiscation of wild species from diverse taxa of plants, animals and fungi. These confiscations …
Story | 27 Feb, 2019
The importance of the Natura 2000 Network: An interview with protect areas expert Andrej Sovinc
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with Natura 2000 experts as part of the LIFE Green List for N2K project. In this interview, Andrej Sovinc, the Slovenian IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Regional Vice-Chair Europe, shares…
Story | 27 Feb, 2019
First programme to census raptors in Morocco released
The first programme to carry out a survey and monitor diurnal cliff-nesting raptors in Morocco – an action integrated in the ATLAS Programme - was launched last week with the first expedition to the Atlantic Sahara, coordinated by the High Commission for Water and…