Story | 20 Jun, 2016
Empowering women for community and ecosystem resilience
Mangroves for the Future's Small Grants Facility enabled NGO Nabolok Parishad to help local women like Promila Rani establish and run community enterprises that provide alternative and sustainable livelihoods.
Story | 17 Jun, 2016
Lands of hope: Nature-based solutions to land degradation
Land degradation touches almost one third of all land on the planet, affecting 1.5 billion people. On World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought we look at how IUCN is working with communities around the world to halt this global menace.
Story | 16 Jun, 2016
Reef Manager’s Guide to Stewardship
"Helping people work together to improve the outlook for coral reefs and communities"
Jointly published | 2017
Business for sustainable landscapes : an action agenda for sustainable development
This report draws widely from the diverse experience of landscape partnerships to analyze the challenges and opportunities for businesses and their partners, and lays out critical actions needed by businesses themselves, and by financial institutions, governments and landscape programs, to…
Story | 16 Jun, 2016
Forest and Farm Producer Organisations show “Strength in Numbers”
A joint Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) and International Family Forestry Alliance (IFFA) publication unveiled today at the European Development Days (EDD) provides practical examples of the involvement of many of the most marginalised in the global quest to fulfil the Sustainable Development…
Story | 16 Jun, 2016
Unlocking the potential of nature
Gathering around 600 delegates from 56 countries, the Eighth Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference was held 8-10 June in Georgia. It has resulted in the Batumi Action for Cleaner Air, the commitment of Ministers and high-level representatives of participating countries and organizations…
Story | 15 Jun, 2016
IUCN has released a detailed report on whale protection measures implemented by Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. during a seismic survey conducted in the summer of 2015 close to an important western gray whale feeding area near Sakhalin Island, off the Russian coast, just north of Japan.…
Press release | 14 Jun, 2016
IUCN and partners launch global effort to boost restoration of degraded forests
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council has approved The Restoration Initiative (TRI) that will help 10 countries define and achieve commitments under the Bonn Challenge – a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded land by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030.
Story | 14 Jun, 2016
Global Environment Facility Council approves swath of new projects to be implemented by IUCN
At its 50th session held in Washington DC in early June, the Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved several major initiatives led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).