Story | 05 Nov, 2021
Fostering collaboration to ensure a more climate change resilient Kye-In Lake in Myanmar
Supported by IUCN’s Mekong WET project, Friends of Wildlife (FOW) Myanmar’s “Supporting Systematic Management of Kye-in Lake” grant has worked with local stakeholders to provide solutions to the impacts of overfishing, agricultural encroachment…
Story | 05 Nov, 2021
Gland/Nairobi, 5 November 2021. Analysing scientific literature, the new report by UNEP and IUCN finds that Nature-based…
Story | 05 Nov, 2021
Wildlife Trust championing Nature -based Solutions with the Great Fen
The Great Fen started with nature. 20 years ago, the great 100 year vision for the Great Fen was to protect and connect two remaining fragments of ancient fen, creating a vast new, resilient, wetland landscape that was good for wildlife and good for people
Story | 04 Nov, 2021
CEPF and IUCN to announce a new call for proposals for the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot
Following the successful call for proposals in January 2021, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and IUCN are making preparations to announce the next call for proposals in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot. Civil society organisations will be invited to submit Letters of Inquiry (…
Story | 03 Nov, 2021
A new IUCN report, Acting on Ocean Risk, reveals that densely populated coastal areas are exposed to increasing threats such as sea-level rise and extreme weather events. Focusing on the situation in Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania, the report…
Story | 03 Nov, 2021
Regen10 is an ambitious collective action plan to scale regenerative food production systems, worldwide, in a decade. The initiative will put farmers at the heart of a global effort to transform agricultural systems, so that by 2030, over 50% of the world’s food can…
Story | 02 Nov, 2021
Request for Proposals – consulting opportunities, Albania
IUCN Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Centrals Asia (ECARO) seeks one (1) international consultant specialised in hydrological engineering and 1 consulting company or team of consultants specialised in biodiversity, GIS, socio-economic and…
Story | 02 Nov, 2021
The Restoration Initiative featured at IUCN World Conservation Congress
The Restoration Initiative (TRI) programme was featured at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, held in France, September 3-11, 2021. Speakers at the TRI event, which served to raise the visibility and awareness of TRI-supported work and restoration efforts more broadly, included Global…
Story | 02 Nov, 2021
The IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas Programme (Green List for short) was officially launched in 2014 at the World Parks Congress to recognise and promote successful protected and conserved areas around the world. The main objective of the Green List is to encourage protected and…
Story | 02 Nov, 2021
IUCN applauds decision to place climate finance in the hands of nature's most effective stewards
Glasgow, United Kingdom, 02 November 2021 (IUCN) – Today at the World Leaders Summit at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 26th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP26), a landmark announcement was made by a coalition of governments and stakeholders across…