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Halfway there: towards a management plan for Albania’s protected areas
What can protected areas do for people and nature? IUCN's project in Albania is working towards developing effective management plans to protect and conserve Albania’s beautiful nature while improving human well-being. Read about the latest project achievements in the new issue of the Advance Albania Newsletter. …
01 Feb 2013 | News story
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Turning ideas to action
End of 2012 saw the closure of “Building capacities for conservation action” project with the event "ENTRANCE" hosted by the Institute for Nature Conservation of Vojvodina Province. Project participants - nature conservation organizations and institutions - presented nine fully developed project proposals elaborated during the project training programme, the main result of past year’s capacity building efforts. “We call it ‘ENTRANCE’ because one of its objectives, apart from presenting and discussing project results, was to explore ways to further support participants in realization of their project ideas,” says the project coordinator Veronika Ferdinandova. …
10 Jan 2013 | News story
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Competition for Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park logo reopened!
Are you passionate about nature? Are you creative and good with graphic software? IUCN has launched a competition with a prize of 500 Euros for the creation of a logo for a Shebenik-Jabllanicë national park in Albania. …
26 Nov 2012 | Jobs - call for proposals
When conservation and borders coincide
A new publication by IUCN shows how transboundary conservation action in South-East Europe’s Dinaric Arc helps protect the region’s rich biodiversity and introduces an innovative tool which helps develop cross-border partnerships. …
19 Nov 2012 | News story
Building partnerships for conservation
“Together we aim higher” – this is the outcome of the event organized during the IUCN World Conservation Congress by IUCN Regional Office for Europe and partners to present experiences of regional cooperation on nature conservation in South-Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. …
16 Oct 2012 | News story
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Protect nature, develop tourism: Interview with town mayor in Albania
Mr. Pashko Ujka, the Mayor of Velipojë, a town close to one of the protected sites where IUCN is working towards nature-based solutions, shares his views on the challenges the town faces and his work programme which combines environmental protection and tourism development. Mr. Ujka's interview is part of the new issue of the Advance Albania Newsletter. …
16 Oct 2012 | News story
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UNDP biodiversity action in Europe and CIS
United Nations Development Programme's new publication 'Biodiversity: Delivering Results in Europe and the CIS' presents some of the outcomes of Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded work managed by UNDP in Europe and the CIS that aims to conserve biodiversity. …
11 Oct 2012 | News story
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Support local action across the border
IUCN has published Guidelines to accompany the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Local Action Group (LAG) of Albania and the Local Action Group (LAG) of Montenegro, concerning their cooperation in environmental protection, tourism, recreation and sustainable development in the transboundary context of the Bjeshkët e Namuna/Prokletije Mountains. …
01 Oct 2012 | Downloads - publication
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Service Procurement Notice: Film Production
Institutional Support to the Albanian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Water Administration for Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation and Use in Protected Areas …
24 Aug 2012 | Jobs - call for proposals
A step towards Ecological Network of Moldova
In the course of last three years IUCN and its member, BIOTICA Ecological Society, in close cooperation with Moldovan Ministry of Environment, were actively working on the creation of the National Ecological Network (NEN) in Moldova. Taking into consideration the agricultural expansion and dense rural population, the physical creation of the NEN is of great importance for biodiversity and landscape conservation, soil and water protection, as well as for the improvement of the agri-environment reality and climate change adaptation. …
22 Aug 2012 | News story
