Press release | 07 Jun, 2015
Global Landscapes Forum to focus on restoration
The 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, on the sidelines of the 21st Conference of the Parties UNFCCC in Paris, will focus on landscape restoration as one of its key themes. IUCN, now an implementing partner of this leading world conference on land use issues, celebrates the new attention to…
Story | 06 Jun, 2015
Wadi El Hitan “Valley Of The Whales” Continues Revealing Its Secrets
The first Egyptian national task force field team for fossil excavation within the Nature Conservation Sector inside the Ministry of Environment, has declared the discovery of a new unique excavation, within Wadi El Hitan World Heritage Site. This was announced by the Egyptian Minister of the…
Press release | 05 Jun, 2015
KPK Launches Billion-tree Drive – A Contribution to Global Forestation Campaign
Government of Khyber Pakthunkhwa in collaboration with IUCN launched its billion-tree campaign as a contribution to the global Bonn Challenge on occasion the World Environment Day today, Islamabad. The Bonn Challenge was established at a ministerial roundtable in September 2011, at the…
Story | 05 Jun, 2015
On Valuing Nature’s Water Infrastructure
Blog by Mark Smith, Director IUCN Water Programme. Posted originally on the Economist Insight for World Environment Day 2015.
Grey literature | 2015
Synergies between climate mitigation and adaptation in forest landscape restoration
This study entailed extensive literature review of linkages between adaptation and mitigation at the global policy level, through analysis of relevant policies and protocols in the context of climate change in general and forest landscape restoration (FLR) in particular. This was followed by…
Story | 03 Jun, 2015
First complete assessment of European marine fishes highlights major threat from overfishing
A total of 7.5% of all European marine fish species are threatened with extinction in European waters, according to the European Red List of Threatened Species published today by IUCN and the European Commission. While some species are recovering, marine management has been less successful for…
Story | 02 Jun, 2015
Safeguarding the world’s wetlands – let’s be bold, brave and ambitious
“We have to make the Ramsar Convention a catalyst for change – and change on a scale massive enough to stop and reverse a terrible history of wetland loss and destruction.”
Story | 02 Jun, 2015
Despite conservation successes, 13% of European birds still at risk of extinction
The new European Red List of Birds, published today and produced by the European Commission and BirdLife International, reveals that 13% of European bird species…
Grey literature | 2015
IUCN - Ramsar collaboration : supporting the wise use of wetlands
IUCN is proud to host the Ramsar Convention at its headquarters near Geneva, Switzerland. Over the years, IUCN has collaborated with the Ramsar Convention in many ways, such as supporting countries in accession to the Convention, scientific assistance in the designation of Ramsar sites,…
Story | 28 May, 2015
IUCN issues second round of recommendations on natural World Heritage
IUCN’s recommendations to the World Heritage Committee are now all available online, following a second release of reports on 29 May. IUCN recommends ‘in danger’ status for Brazil’s Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks. IUCN also recommends changes to Russia…