Story | 08 Oct, 2012
IUCN in Oceania: Course for the next four years
This document outlines a framework for coordinating activities of the IUCN Oceania Secretariat, Commissions and Committees to deliver the IUCN Global Programme 2013-2016.
Story | 07 Oct, 2012
Spineless: Status and trends of the world’s invertebrates, with European invertebrates data
One-fifth of the world’s invertebrates may be threatened with extinction according to ‘Spineless’. Chapter no. 5 presents the results of the European Red List for the invertebrates recently assessed in the region (butterflies, dragonflies, freshwater molluscs and selections of saproxylic beetles…
Press release | 04 Oct, 2012
BIOPAMA moved forward at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
The Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Programme (BIOPAMA), funded under the EC/ Intra ACP Envelope for Biodiversity, was officially launched and attracted international attention, through two high level events at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Republic of Korea.
Press release | 30 Sep, 2012
Turning the Big Plan into Big Action
Talks to evaluate progress in halting the loss of nature will take place 8-19 October in Hyderabad, India at the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP11). Governments meeting in Hyderabad will discuss progress towards the implementation of decisions…
Story | 30 Sep, 2012
Support local action across the border
IUCN has published Guidelines to accompany the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Local Action Group (LAG) of Albania and the Local Action Group (LAG) of Montenegro, concerning their cooperation in environmental protection, tourism, recreation and sustainable development in the…
Story | 27 Sep, 2012
Protection measures for the Bering Strait identified
IUCN, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks (UAF) are undertaking a cooperative project to identify measures that could be adopted to protect Ecologically and Biologically Sensitive Areas (EBSAs) of the Bering Strait region, and to explore ways in…
Story | 26 Sep, 2012
Updating what we know about ocean acidification and key global challenges
It is amazing to think that just ten years ago hardly anyone had heard of ocean acidification. It is now much more widely understood that the increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) we are emitting into the air by our activities is reacting with the ocean to alter its chemistry and push it…
Story | 24 Sep, 2012
The future of World Heritage a major issue at Congress
Discussions at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju Korea included an extremely vibrant debate on World Heritage, with no less than eighteen different events.
Story | 24 Sep, 2012
IUCN situation analysis on East and Southeast Asian intertidal habitats, with particular reference to the Yellow Sea (including the Bohai Sea)