Artículo | 21 Sep, 2017
Presentan Ruta de género en estrategia REDD+ en Guatemala
Ciudad de Guatemala. Luego de un proceso de construcción participativa que involucró a lideresas de todo el país, este jueves 21 de septiembre se presentó oficialmente el instrumento “Ruta de trabajo para incorporar consideraciones de género dentro de la estrategia REDD+”, con criterios…
Artículo | 01 Sep, 2017
Tela, Honduras. La UICN colaboró con la Secretaría de Recursos Naturales, Ambiente y Minas de Honduras para llevar a cabo el primer Congreso sobre Biodiversidad que se realiza en Honduras. El evento se efectuó del 28 al 30 de agosto del presente año y contó con la participación…
Artículo | 13 Jun, 2017
Hoy en día la restauración del paisaje es reconocida como una estrategia clave no solo para recuperar la integridad ecológica, sino para generar beneficios locales, nacionales y globales adicionales. A partir del lanzamiento del Desafío de Bonn en el 2011, un año después El Salvador asumió el…
Story | 13 Jun, 2017
El Salvador makes case for strengthening its national restoration strategy at Bonn Challenge event
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is recognised as a key strategy to not only restore ecological integrity, but also to generate local, national and global benefits. El Salvador embraced this concept and took action as outlined in a strategy presented at the Latin America Bonn Challenge event…
Story | 02 Mar, 2017
The building blocks of pledging to the Bonn Challenge – Cameroon’s story
Cameroon recently announced a 12 million hectare restoration pledge to the Bonn Challenge by 2030 – the largest thus far from Central Africa. The question arises, how do countries decide to commit? What is the groundwork that goes into it? We look closer at Cameroon’s experience.
Story | 12 Dec, 2016
Value we see in trees: innovation and the exchange of ideas
Innovation is a key to improving the rights and livelihoods of farmers and small land holders while encouraging them to plant trees and effectively restore landscapes. During a regional knowledge exchange in Thailand, the Tree Bank offered one such innovation.
Story | 11 Nov, 2016
Fostering stakeholder dialogues to catalyse forest landscapes in Indonesia
IUCN’s Adriana Vidal and Chetan Kumar report from a panel discussion titled Multi-stakeholders Participatory Approach – Evidence from Forest Based Landscape at the Indonesia Pavilion during UNFCCC COP22 discussions in Marrakesh, Morocco. This panel examined results from South Sumatra where land…
Story | 10 Nov, 2016
Tackling climate change through forest ecosystems in and around India
IUCN joined the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to discuss ecosystems and climate change at COP22 in Marrakech.
Story | 10 Nov, 2016
This week at COP22, IUCN joined a panel discussion on implementing the Paris Agreement, organised as part of Forest Action Day and focused on how the sustainable management of forests would help countries achieve their targets.
Story | 02 Nov, 2016
Until recently, the significance of forest dependence had not been well understood. It was generally assumed that the livelihood value of forests was primarily derived from cash commodities like charcoal – and particularly for poorer households, as a safety net to help them through hard times.…