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Annual fishing season declared open in Tanguar Hoar
Balancing sustainable use while supporting livelihoods is a delicate act. The Community Based Sustainable Management of Tanguar Haor Program, co-managed by IUCN Bangladesh, is demonstrating how both objectives can be achieved. …
14 Jan 2010 | Event
Biodiversity is life
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, and people all over the world are working to safeguard our irreplaceable natural wealth and reduce biodiversity loss. This is vital for current and future human wellbeing. We need to do more. Now is the time to act. …
11 Jan 2010 | Event
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Discover biodiversity - every day
To increase awareness of the enormous variety of life on our planet, and raise the profile of threatened species, we have launched the IUCN Red List ‘Species of the Day’. …
06 Jan 2010 | News story
Copenhagen climate summit: Copenhagen Accord a step in right direction, but insufficient
Copenhagen, Denmark, 19 December 2009, IUCN - World leaders in Copenhagen have taken a first and useful step to slow the course of climate change – a threat that is already affecting people, ecosystems and biodiversity in many parts of the world. A global, legally-binding climate change treaty must be the next step. … | Chinese
19 Dec 2009 | International news release
Celebrating livelihoods and wetlands in north-east Bangladesh
Last week IUCN staff and the local community joined the festivities of ‘Haor Agro-Economic week-2009’ …
15 Dec 2009 | Event
Bangladesh joins Copenhagen negotiations
The Bangladesh delegation is taking a national agenda to the international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen this month. …
07 Dec 2009 | Event
Launch of climate change resources for schools
9 November 2009
16 Nov 2009 | Event
Mapping local knowledge reveals impacts of a changing climate
A series of community workshops during the last six months in the Kapasia Upazila, 130km north-east of Dhaka, culminated in a national symposium last week. More than 150 community members and local government officials of Kapasia Upazila gathered to discuss the environmental changes identified through a series workshops lead by IUCN Bangladesh (IUNCB). …
12 Nov 2009 | Event
Coming to Terms with Governance
“Coming to Terms with Governance” was the focus of a workshop in Bangkok, 15-16 October. Representatives from Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka – the three Asian countries involved in the global project – participated in the workshop, which was convened by the Sri Lanka country component of IUCN’s global, DFID-funded project “Improving Natural Resource Governance for Rural Poverty Reduction”, with the support of the Regional Environmental Law Programme, Asia. …
03 Nov 2009 | Event
