News | 21 Nov, 2023
Sports outline game plan to safeguard biodiversity at first Sports for Nature Annual Meeting
Lausanne, Switzerland – Sports for Nature signatories demonstrated how they are embedding nature in their sustainability strategies and called for further guidance to help them contribute to global biodiversity goals at the first Sports for Nature Annual Meeting held here last week, following…
Story | 24 Nov, 2023
Ecological corridors are crucial to connecting fragmented wildlife populations and habitats– and if implemented well can have social, economic and climate-related benefits too, finds Coreen Grant
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IUCN Academy professional certificate on finance for nature – 2nd edition
Are you interested in exploring how finance can support a nature-positive future? Join this course to Identify how the Nature-Finance Nexus is relevant to your organisation and develop a personal project to kick start change towards a nature-positive future.
Page | 21 Nov, 2023
IUCN Pavilion “Unite for Nature” Programme
The IUCN Nature Pavilion - “Unite for Nature” hosted over 70 events during the two-week duration of the COP28.
Grey literature | 2023
The conservation status of cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea
This report gives an overview of the status of Mediterranean cetaceans (whales and dolphins), informed by IUCN Red List assessments undertaken between 2018 and 2022. Compared to the first review by IUCN, published in 2012, these recent assessments provide better information on the status of …
News | 21 Nov, 2023
New toolkit to assess the effectiveness of World Heritage management
UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee – ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN – today released a newly revised toolkit for assessing the effectiveness of management systems of World Heritage properties. Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0 offers a World Heritage-specific methodology…
Jointly published | 2023
Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0
The Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0 offers a self-assessment methodology to evaluate management effectiveness in a World Heritage property or other heritage places.
Story | 20 Nov, 2023
The Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) Project, a four-year global initiative, comes to an end leaving important contributions by promoting island circular economy and demonstrating effective, quantifiable solutions to address plastic waste leakage in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Story | 21 Nov, 2023
Lake Toba and the Batak legacy: harmonising indigenous wisdom with conservation
A snapshot of my indigenous heritage in Lake Toba, Tapanuli, Sumatra.
Grey literature | 2023
Measuring the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators and quality analyses
Efforts to assess the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators are indispensable at a time when environmental law and its effective implementation and enforcement are crucial in the global transformation towards a sustainable society. Environmental law requires tools which…