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Monthly update from the world's largest community of environmental experts.
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Biodiversity in the Congress spotlight This month we take a look at the first of the three themes of the IUCN Congress 2012 : Valuing and Conserving Biodiversity, which has been at the heart of IUCN’s work for 60 years. But we have to work even harder now to prove to the world that securing biological diversity - species, their habitats and their genes - is essential to human well-being and fundamental to all global challenges like fighting poverty and climate change and securing food supplies. > Read more
> Watch Jane Smart outline what's needed to save biodiversity
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Happy New Year! (it could be the last)
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Are people’s fears of a world-end related to our neglect of nature, asks Célia Zwahlen. Chances are you heard it countless times this New Year’s Eve: 2012 marks the coming of doomsday. > Read more
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Local to global - a Swiss-Italian valley brought to IUCN's Congress
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The IUCN Congress allows the voices of people working at the coal face of conservation and natural resource management to be heard on an international stage where global leaders join forces with people defending local interests. > Read more
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Unveiling the secrets of the deep
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Everyone knows the oceans are in a trouble but how can we properly protect them when we don’t know much about what lives within them? Kent Carpenter is on a mission to learn more about marine species and the threats they are facing. > Read more
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Out of sight, not out of mind
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The mysterious life of the pygmy hippo in the jungle of West Africa is being uncovered in an SOS-funded conservation project to save the species from extinction. > Read more
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Jeju: eco-wonder of the world
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The largest island of South Korea, Jeju is a crown jewel of the Yellow Sea. Wind-swept palm trees, sandy beaches and volcanic landscapes – not to forget a unique local culture – will be the stunning backdrop to the 2012 World Conservation Congress next September. > Read more
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Setting gold standards for conservation
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An important role of the IUCN Congress is to showcase the knowledge and tools we can use to better manage our natural world. As well as being a world leader on species and their conservation needs, IUCN offers the expertise needed to establish and sustainably manage our protected areas. > Read more
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The IUCN Red List - Nature's early warning system
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How can we save biodiversity if we don’t know the threats facing our species and what the priorities are? The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ provides the world with the information needed to guide conservation action. > Read more
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Facts and figures
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Production of at least one third of the world’s food, including 87 of the 113 leading food crops, depends on pollination carried out by insects, bats and birds.
> More facts
> More about biodiversity
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Check out the Congress site!
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To know everything about the next IUCN World Conservation Congress taking place in Jeju, Korea, in September 2012.
> www.iucn.org/congress
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Reindeer: not just for Christmas
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer may be famous for guiding Santa Claus through the night sky, but reindeer do more than just pull toy-laden sleighs.
> Read more
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Photo credits: Header banner and Horses in the snow © Jeju Tourism Association; Expert © IUCN; Happy New Year © Célia Zwahlen; local to global © Peter Shadie; sea urchin © Gabriel Grimsditch; pygmy hippo © Tracy Lee; hornbill © Jim Thorsell; wolf © Jean-Christophe Vié; bee © Michael Dougherty ; Vietnam © Bernard O'Callaghan; Reinder © Heather Sunderland/Rukakuusamo.com |
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