Story | 03 Feb, 2014
Free World Heritage app for a limited time
Don’t miss your chance to download the World Heritage app for free, courtesy of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre! Read exclusive articles and watch videos of the world’s most spectacular sites. Available for iPad, Android and Kindle Fire tablets.
Story | 02 Feb, 2014
Assessing the Management of Socotra World Heritage Site
A regional workshop was one of the regional efforts of the World Heritage programme in supporting the World Heritage site in Socotra, which aimed to exchange the experiences in environment management and wildlife conservation between the partners.
Press release | 02 Feb, 2014
IUCN welcomes Total’s ‘no-go’ commitment in World Heritage sites
Oil and gas company Total has confirmed that it will not carry out extractive operations within natural World Heritage sites, including Virunga National Park. IUCN welcomes this decision and calls on all oil and gas companies to follow suit.
Press release | 02 Feb, 2014
Promoting forests at the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
Forests can be a path to acheiving global development goals. They will be part of the discussion this week at the 8th Open Working Group on Sustanable Development Goals at the United Nations in New York.
Press release | 29 Jan, 2014
On the Road to the Bonn Challenge
Two years into the Bonn Challenge, the world is well on its way to achieving the goal of restoring 150 million hectares of the planet’s degraded and deforested lands.
Press release | 29 Jan, 2014
A meeting of Executive Committee of the IUCN Pakistan National Committee Members was convened at the IUCN Country Office in Karachi today.
Story | 26 Jan, 2014
Nominate experts for the work of IPBES
In January 2014, IPBES issued a call for nominations of experts through IPBES member governments and other relevant stakeholders to help implementing its first work programme 2014-2018. It is highly relevant to the experts within the IUCN network.
Story | 20 Jan, 2014
IUCN and Holcim: Celebrating 7 years of biodiversity management
Over the last 7 years IUCN and Holcim have been working together to integrate biodiversity considerations into Holcim policies and practices. In 2014, a number of tools will be launched to scale up improved biodiversity management within the wider building materials sector and to help build a…
Story | 20 Jan, 2014
A quarter of sharks and rays threatened with extinction
A quarter of the world’s sharks and rays are threatened with extinction according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, with ray species found to be at a higher risk than sharks. The findings are part of the first ever global analysis of these species carried out by the IUCN Shark…
Press release | 19 Jan, 2014
A unique collaboration between the oil and gas industry, scientists and conservationists proves a way to minimize seismic survey impacts on rare whales and other species.