Press release | 27 May, 2010
Mass mortality among saigas in Kazakhstan: 12,000 dead
Nearly 12,000 Critically Endangered saiga antelopes have been found dead over the last week in the Ural population in western Kazakhstan.
Story | 26 May, 2010
REDD payments as incentive for reducing forest loss
"Strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) could become an important part of a new agreement for climate change mitigation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Story | 26 May, 2010
Markets and incentives in livelihoods and landscapes strategy : using economic and financial tools to sustain forest livelihoods and landscapes
Story | 25 May, 2010
Can conservation and development really be integrated?
"Most biodiversity conservation projects in poor tropical countries also aspire to alleviate the poverty of local people. The results of these integrated conservation and development projects have often been disappointing. This paper argues that it would be impossible for both practical and…
Press release | 24 May, 2010
Spain to lead IUCN in the Mediterranean
On 25 May 2010, the Spanish Minister of Environment, Elena Espinosa, the Director of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation and Development, Elena Madrazo, the Andalusia Regional Minister of Environment, Juan Díaz Trillo and the Director of the International Union for the Conservation…
Press release | 24 May, 2010
Seismic threat to Critically Endangered whales
A seismic survey planned by the Russian petroleum company Rosneft in summer 2010 poses a major threat to the Critically Endangered Western Gray Whale population. In a letter to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Director General of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (…
Story | 23 May, 2010
Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network (APSTSN)
With a focus on developing stronger regional networks and collaborations in the Asia-Pacific, the APSTSN has formed to better address environmental, cultural, social, ethical, and political and policy issues raised by scientific innovation and technological change in our region. Membership is…
Story | 23 May, 2010
Sharing Power: Learning by Doing in Co-Management of Natural Resources
The highly acclaimed publication, 'Sharing Power: Learning by Doing in Co-Management of Natural Resources' has been now been translated into French: