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Discovery: First New Species Of Giant Elephant-Shrew In 126 Years
Dr. Galen Rathbun, Chair of the IUCN/SSC Afrotheria Specialist Group, and a team of collaborators confirmed the existence of a new species, Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi, in the mountains of Tanzania. …
31 Jan 2008 | News story
Founder and Chairman of MJF Group (Dilmah Tea) visits IUCN Headquarters
On January 28, 2008 the Founder and Chairman of MJF Group of Companies (Dilmah Tea), Mr. Merrill J. Fernando, its Marketing Director, Mr. Dilhan Fernando and a team from Dilmah visited IUCN Headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. …
28 Jan 2008 | News story
A Change of Climate
Prof. Meinhard Doelle, a specialist in international and domestic law relating to climate change, has joined the staff of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre for five months to work on linkages between biodiversity and climate change. …
25 Jan 2008 | News story
New publication on Access and Benefit-sharing
IUCN Environmental Law Centre has published the first three volumes of the ‘ABS Series’ – a five-volume sub-series of the ELP’s Environmental Policy and Law Papers. The Series provides intensively researched expert analysis by internationally respected authors and contributors on key issues of access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing under the CBD. …
17 Jan 2008 | News story
Introducing a new perspective: environment in relation to human rights
A two-day training workshop was conducted in mid-December 2007 for government officials at the Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights (VIHR) to address the issue of environment in relation to health and human rights. …
07 Jan 2008 | News story
Promoting business for sustainable development in Viet Nam
IUCN Viet Nam and the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) signed in late December 2007 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Business for Sustainable Development in Viet Nam. This is an innovative approach to nature conservation in the country. …
07 Jan 2008 | News story
Leveraging legal mechanisms to safeguard biodiversity in Viet Nam
The Government of Viet Nam, with the support of the IUCN and in coordination with other partners, is developing the Draft Biodiversity Law. This is initiated subsequent to the Government Decision No. 35/2003/QD-TTg, which mandates the development to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE). …
07 Jan 2008 | News story
Continuing support: IUCN’s work in the Gulf of Tonkin
Colourful and creative drawings produced by the children of Minh Chau Island Secondary School were displayed at an award ceremony on November 19, 2007 to celebrate student participation in the “I Love Marine Turtles” Campaign. This is part of the “Saving Marine Turtles and their Habitat” environmental education programme that promotes good practices of marine biodiversity preservation. …
07 Jan 2008 | News story
Using Geographic Information System (GIS) to improve marine protected area management
A training course on the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) software, My World GIS, to support Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) ecosystem management was co-sponsored by IUCN Viet Nam in November 2007 at Nui Chua National Park in Ninh Thuan province. …
07 Jan 2008 | News story
ECOLEX Steering Committee Meeting
The Steering Committee of ECOLEX met at the IUCN Environmental Law Centre in Bonn on December 12-13. …
20 Dec 2007 | News story
