The IUCN Africa Conservation Forum (ACF) is Africa’s foremost platform for advancing Conservation, uniting IUCN Members, Commissions, and diverse stakeholders to address critical environmental challenges. It shapes the sustainability agenda, drives biodiversity conservation, and serves as a hub…
Ensuring that ecosystems support climate change control strategies, rather than undermine them, is a critical global priority. A well-designed and effective network of protected and conserved areas is the most proven way to retain natural ecosystems and their ecosystem services, for both…
Many parties and civil society representatives are gearing up for their second COP in the space of a month!
The 13th WPALF meeting was organised by Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland in cooperation with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Protected and Conserved Areas Team and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).
In response to achieving the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Target 3, specifically for conserving at least 30 per cent of inland water areas through a combination of protected areas and OECMs, while recognizing Indigenous and traditional territories, the inlands water community…
UNFCCC COP29 will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 to 22 November 2024. It takes place against a backdrop of toppling temperature records and unprecedented extreme weather events – heatwaves, storms, floods and droughts – that have wreaked havoc and devastation across the planet, with…
The concept of ‘long-term’ is a key part of the definitions of both protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). Here we outline existing global guidance on the interpretation of ‘long-term’ for area-based conservation and clarify aspects that may have led to…
The global community has developed a wide array of frameworks, tools, reporting systems, and guidance materials to help protected area and OECM managers assess the effectiveness of their areas and systems. These resources have been developed over time in response to CBD commitments and work has…
African Solutions for Nature and People: Creating transformative responses to the biodiversity and climate crisis in Africa.
Decision 14/8 of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established the definition and criteria for “Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures” (OECMs). In that decision, agreed to by all parties, the IUCN was invited to assist in identifying OECMs and in applying the scientific and…