Press release | 30 May, 2010
Climate action needed now - talks continue
As climate negotiations resume today at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Bonn, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) urges delegates to establish a post-2012 global climate change regime.
Press release | 28 May, 2010
Because of the distance, prevailing currents and winds, the oil slick drifting to southern United States shores will probably not directly affect the Caribbean. However, events in the last few weeks in the Gulf of Mexico should be seen as a serious warning for any country commercializing its…
Story | 27 May, 2010
Sea turtles in the Mediterranean : Distribution, threats and conservation priorities
Sea turtles in the Mediterranean : Distribution, threats and conservation priorities
Story | 27 May, 2010
European Red List of Saproxylic Beetles
European Red List of Saproxylic Beetles
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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…