Press release | 07 Sep, 2016
First global conservation priorities set – IUCN World Conservation Congress
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, 6 September (IUCN) – Limiting illegal trade in threatened species, promoting nature-based solutions to climate change and accounting for biodiversity conservation in the development of renewables are among the first global conservation priorities set today at…
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
En reconocimiento a los esfuerzos destacados por sus contribuciones para la conservación de algunos de los puntos focales para la biodiversidad del planeta, 15 conservacionistas de todo el mundo recibieron el premio “Hotspot Heroes” de la iniciativa Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).…
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
En el marco del Congreso Mundial para la Naturaleza Hawaii 2016 de la UICN, representantes del Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, de la Comisión Mundial de Derecho Ambiental, de la Sociedad de Historia Natural de Soconusco de México, de la Oficina Regional de la UICN para México, América Centr
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
Release of the MEET Manual – A guide to discover the MEET approach publication
The Mediterranean Experience of Ecotourism (MEET) Network has released its fourth entry of the Drops of Knowledge series, the newly published “MEET Manual – A guide to discover the MEET approach”.
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
Hawaiian Botanist Wins Global Recognition for Plant Conservation
Dr Lauren Weisenberger, a Hawaiian botanist and member of the Hawaiian Plant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), has received the David Given Award for Excellence in Plant Conservation.
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
"The Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL) (http://biodiversitysrilanka.org) coordinates the private sector interests in biodiversity conservation.
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
Diversidad Socio Ambiental de los territorios indígenas en los bosques amazónicos
En un encuentro en el Congreso Mundial de la Naturaleza Hawai’i 2016 se conoció sobre los mecanismos que permiten cuidar la diversidad socio ambiental de los territorios indígenas en los bosques amazónicos.
Story | 07 Sep, 2016
Using ecosystems to solve societal problems is the way forward, say IUCN members and United Nations representatives at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Honolulu, Hawai’i, this week.
Grey literature | 2016
The Sixaola River Basin, Costa Rica/Panama
The interdisciplinary situation analysis (ISA) presented in this document is the first of its kind and pilots various analyses of secondary data that may be drawn upon to inform the second phase of the landscape assessment, which involves primary data collection. This is the first analysis of…