Story | 18 Dec, 2012
Five new African World Heritage sites
Five new African world heritage sites were inscribed this year on the World Heritage List, including the first site for Chad (Lakes of Ounianga), Cameroon, Congo and the Central African…
Story | 17 Dec, 2012
An Ecosystem Approach to Management of Seamounts in the Southern Indian Ocean
Volume 1: overview of seamount ecosystems and biodiversity
Story | 17 Dec, 2012
An Ecosystem Approach to Management of Seamounts in the Southern Indian Ocean
Volume 2 – Anthropogenic Threats to Seamount
Story | 17 Dec, 2012
An Ecosystem Approach to Management of Seamounts in the Southern Indian Ocean
Story | 12 Dec, 2012
December 2012
Protected Areas, Tourism and the Aichi Targets
Story | 11 Dec, 2012
Nome Workshop Report on Bering Strait Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs)
Warming ocean temperatures and the dramatic loss of ice cover is opening Arctic waters to new and expanded shipping, fishing, research, offshore oil development, and other economic activities.Trans-Arctic and “destinational” shipping will likely grow substantially and will necessarily transit…
Press release | 06 Dec, 2012
Doha, Qatar, 6 December, 2012 (IUCN) -- The global movement to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020 – known as the “Bonn Challenge” – gains further momentum at the UN Climate Talks in Doha today, as Costa Rica and El Salvador each commit up to1 million hectares.…
Story | 03 Dec, 2012
Strengthening IUCN in Europe: Message by IUCN Director General
Dear Members, partners and friends,
Press release | 27 Nov, 2012
Study raises concern over international trade in python skins
Gland, Switzerland, 27 November 2012 – A new study finds that close to half a million python skins are reported as exported annually from South-East Asia. The main importer is the European fashion and leather industry. The study raises concerns over the illegality in parts of the trade, animal…
Story | 25 Nov, 2012
Uniting to restore 150 million hectares by 2020
Presentation by IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre at the Ecosystem Restoration Day at the CBD COP 11 “Uniting to restore 150 million hectares by 2020”
17 October 2012, Hyderabad, India