Our monthly focus takes a look at how IUCN turns conservation policy into a conservation reality, supporting people’s livelihoods and saving nature. Some months focus on IUCN's involvement in key international meetings such as on climate change or biodiversity while others highlight IUCN's efforts on a particular issue such as ocean conservation. In each focus section you'll find a range of material from audio and video interviews to expert opinion articles and stories about concrete conservation action.
Managing global wildlife trade
February 2013: IUCN experts prepare for their work at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference in Bangkok, aiming to ensure that the decisions made there are based on the best available science.
IUCN and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
January 2013. We start the year by taking a look at IUCN’s role in the newly-established ‘platform’ to assess the state of biodiversity, the Earth’s fragile ecosystems and the essential services they provide to all of us.
Climate change
December 2012. IUCN experts are once again active at the annual UN climate change conference. They are pushing the message that Nature provides many of the solutions in tackling climate change and adapting to its impacts.
Central America
November 2012. Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean is a unique region. Home to high levels of biodiversity, including remarkable species and ecosystems that are found nowhere else on earth, its natural services benefit not just the region but the entire world.
IUCN at the UN biodiversity summit
October 2012. What’s the prognosis for the natural world? Are governments putting their commitments on saving biodiversity into action? This is what we’ll be finding out at the UN biodiversity summit that takes place 8-19 October in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
See you in Jeju!
1 August 2012. With just over a month to go, the final touches are being put to the IUCN Congress – the event that will show the world how to achieve sustainable development with nature at its core.
World Heritage decision time
June - July 2012. The world needs to take far better care of its outstanding natural places — those designated as World Heritage sites. That’s the message from IUCN experts as they gather in St. Petersburg, Russia for the annual meeting of the World Heritage Convention starting 24 June.
Shaking things up at Rio
May - June 2012. It’s time to get serious about sustainability. As preparations gear up for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, IUCN is calling for far greater progress towards a cleaner, fairer and more prosperous world.
Nature for all
April 2012. Nature concerns all of us. It’s the common denominator between us. We all depend on nature and benefit from it in so many ways. The problem is, these benefits are not shared equally because of various political, geographic, social and economic reasons.
Wet and wild
March 2012. To coincide with the 6th World Water Forum that takes place in France this month, we’re taking a look at IUCN’s efforts to help secure the world’s fresh water supplies and improve access to clean water.
Naturally Europe
February 2012. For the people of Europe, struggling through another cold winter, it’s time to fall in love again! Walks along the Seine, bird watching along the coast of the Waddenzee, skiing in the Alps…from Portugal to Russia, Europe is home to some of the world’s most iconic romantic settings. And this is thanks to a rich natural heritage.
Biodiversity up front
January 2012. This month we take a look at the first of the three themes of the IUCN Congress 2012—the challenges that delegates from all walks of life will come together in Jeju, South Korea to find solutions to.
