Story | 24 Mar, 2016
Photo gallery: IUCN World Heritage mission to Tasmanian Wilderness
IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, has carried out a recent mission to Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia, to assess the state of conservation of the World Heritage site. The mission report is now available. Discover this exceptional site through beautiful photographs from our…
Story | 22 Mar, 2016
World Water Day - Blog: 'Why investing in natural water infrastructure will pay off'
By Renat Heuberger, CEO of the South Pole Group, and Mark Smith, Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme. Why did a group of bankers and fund managers spend an afternoon in a Zurich café talking about nature? For opportunity and innovation
Story | 21 Mar, 2016
IUCN Green List – A new Standard for Conservation in Vietnam
Hanoi – IUCN's pioneering Green List edged closer to being fully set in motion in the Asia region last week with an inception workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam, where the new global standard for protected and conserved areas will soon enter an important implementation phase.
Story | 20 Mar, 2016
Nature trails for conservation: Identifying natural assets at Thai World Heritage Site
The natural environment plays an important role for communities living around protected areas. In addition to being essential for livelihoods, nature also has the potential of being developed for nature or community-based tourism.
Grey literature | 2016
Poweshiek skipperling and Dakota skipper : ex situ assessment and planning workshop
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
A window of conservation opportunity opens in Myanmar
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) - began working in the forested southern Tanintharyi Region in 2014 as it slowly began to open up to international organisations after over 50 years of civil conflict. Although there was little recorded evidence of…
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
In Bhutan, happiness is policy and tiger numbers are on the rise
The Kingdom of Bhutan, a Himalayan country about the size of Switzerland, could be taken as an example by many countries in the world. 70% of its land is still covered in forests. It is estimated that Bhutan forests sequestrate 3 times more carbon dioxide than the country emits. Close to 100% of…
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
Htamanthi, North Myanmar: Where Tigers Still Survive
Geographically bounded between Uyu and Chindwin rivers, the Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary has been the largest nature protected area in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar since its foundation in 1974.
Story | 17 Mar, 2016
The show must go on, despite forest fires in Indonesia
ITHCP-funded consortium led by WWF Germany in cooperation with WWF Indonesia in the Rimbang Baling landscape in Central Sumatra has suffered from the forest fires and related haze at the end of 2015, however the project team on…