Política social
Partners for the protection of Ecuador’s forests
The Ecuadorian Government is taking bold steps to protect the country's native forests - natural 'gold mines' that store large amounts of carbon, harbour some of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet, and provide numerous other benefits to people and nature. …
28 Feb 2011 | News story
Un camino mejor
En uno de los lugares biológicamente más ricos de la Tierra, la Reserva de Biosfera Yasuní, la UICN y sus miembros apoyan la disminución de la cacería comercial de especies de fauna silvestre. … | English
28 Feb 2011 | News story
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Going nuts about forests
In Laos, the sustainable harvesting of medicinal seeds from the native malva nut tree is helping to improve both the lives of local people and the state of the region’s forests. …
24 Jan 2011 | News story
UICN da la bienvenida al Año Internacional de los Bosques
Los bosques del mundo son esenciales para la vida, su diversidad y para alcanzar los objetivos más grandes de la humanidad, tales como: reducir la pobreza, frenar el cambio climático y lograr un desarrollo sostenible. Durante 2011, la UICN trabajará para asegurar que los bosques ofrezcan su máximo potencial para el bienestar humano y la conservación de la biodiversidad. … | English
03 Jan 2011 | News story
Development and Conservation organizations partner on adaptation
IUCN, CARE, and WWF have joined forces to build poor and marginalized people's resilience to the impacts of climate change by promoting sound ecosystem management into human adaptation. …
20 Dec 2010 | News story
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WANI supports good water governance in Uganda and Kenya
Across East Africa, governments have recognized watershed management at the local level is key to improved water resources management. …
16 Dec 2010 | News story
Proyectos Cahoacán y Tacaná elegidos como proyectos modelo
Los proyectos Cahoacán y Tacaná de UICN fueron recientemente elegidos por la organización española Ecología y Desarrollo (ECODES) para ser parte de un selecto catálogo de innovadores proyectos de todo el mundo. … | English
05 Nov 2010 | News story
It’s in our hands: New book on our relationship with nature launched
A new book, Sacred Natural Sites: Conserving nature and culture, is being launched by IUCN today at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Nagoya, Japan. The launch is part of an event organized through a collaboration between ETC-COMPAS and IUCN and is dedicated to promoting sacred natural sites and their crucial role in conserving nature and culture. The book is based on experience from around the world which highlights the importance of sacred natural sites in biodiversity conservation and the long-standing relationships between nature and people. …
26 Oct 2010 | News story
When nature and people are one
As conservationists tear their hair out over the growing extinction rates of plants and animals, climate change effects and unsustainable development, there’s one forgotten element of the diversity of life that also urgently calls for their attention: the diversity of human cultures. …
30 Sep 2010 | News story
Interactive Portal on Rights Based Approaches to Conservation
The IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC) - with the support of the IUCN Senior Adviser for Social Policy, as well as individual members of the Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) and the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) - has launched an interactive, web-based “Rights-Based Approach to Conservation Portal” to promote and encourage rights-based approaches to conservation (RBAs to Conservation). …
07 Sep 2010 | News story
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