Story | 09 Feb, 2017
CEESP News - By James Karimi
Press release | 09 Feb, 2017
Intensive agriculture and wildfires threaten over a quarter of Europe’s grasshoppers and crickets
Over a quarter of European grasshopper, cricket and bush cricket species are being driven to extinction by unsustainable agricultural practices and the growing frequency of wildfires in Europe, a new IUCN report has found.
Story | 08 Feb, 2017
Law Students Making a Difference for Parks and Nature
CEESP News - by Warren G. Lavey, Adjunct professor, University of Illinois College of Law
At the University of Illinois, the applied environmental law program made a difference for organizations facing a variety of challenges to parks and natural resources. In 2016, 14…
Story | 08 Feb, 2017
The 36-Member IUCN’s Global Council in its first meeting held on February 8th, 2017 at Gland, Switzerland elected former Minister of State from Pakistan, Mr. Malik Amin Aslam Khan as IUCN’s Global Vice President for the period 2017-2020. In this role, he will advise and closely assist the…
Story | 08 Feb, 2017
In January 2017, Antonio H. Benjamin became the first Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law to ever visit Vietnam. WCEL membership has great potential to grow and the IUCN Vietnam Country Office in Hanoi provides great opportunities for increased cooperation. Additionally, the…
Story | 08 Feb, 2017
In January 2017, WCEL Chair Antonio Benjamin made a 10-day visit to India. With the support of the Brazilian Mission to India, Justice Benjamin met with leading judicial and environmental institutes, and individuals in three cities: Mumbai, New Delhi, and Chennai. India is one of 17 megadiverse…
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
Bayesian Networks for modeling conservation impacts
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By Cory W. Whitney
The application of alternative modeling approaches could be expanded to help bridge the social and biological strengths of the IUCN to help promote both conservation and livelihoods. By combining the features of several participatory…
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
Urban Sacred Natural Sites – A Call for Research
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By: Wendy Jackson and Alison Ormsby
Much has been written about sacred sites in urban areas, which tend to be human-built structures (e.g., churches, synagogues, mosques, shrines, monasteries, and burial sites). However, minimal attention has been given to sacred …
Story | 07 Feb, 2017
2016: an eventful year for SULi
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By Dr Rosie Cooney, SULi Chair and Dr Rebecca Cross, SULi Programme Office
2016 was a very eventful year for the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) members, who attended - in force - key international meetings to forward the ever-increasing…
Press release | 07 Feb, 2017
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016 awarded international sustainability certification
The IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016 held in Hawaiʻi, USA received the prestigious ISO 20121 Event Sustainability Management System certification for its efforts to minimise the environmental impacts of the event.