Here you will find all news related to IUCN's work towards the CBD as well as news about IUCN's participation to the main CBD meetings.
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Use protected areas to save species, IUCN urges Convention on Biological Diversity
Governments should strengthen protected areas as a way to save their countries’ species. That was the message from IUCN as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) starts to discuss protected areas at its ninth meeting in Bonn. …
21 May 2008 | News story
Protected Areas at CBD: Interview with David Sheppard
Protected areas are an important element in the battle to save animals, birds, marine life, plants and other natural wonders. It's also a major topic up for discussion at the CBD meeting in Bonn. David Sheppard is the Head of IUCN's Programme on Protected Areas - he explains the big issues. Run Audio …
21 May 2008 | Audio
Interview with invasives expert Geoffrey Howard
Countries should avoid planting crops for biofuels that stand a high risk of becoming invasive species, according to a report released today.
The Global Invasive Species Programme has identified all the crops currently being used or considered for biofuel production and ranked them according to the risk they pose of becoming invasive species. IUCN's Geoffrey Howard explains.
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20 May 2008 | Audio
Don’t let invasive biofuel crops attack your country, warn top scientists
Bonn, Germany, May 20, 2008 (IUCN/GISP) – Countries should avoid planting crops for biofuels that stand a high risk of becoming invasive species, according to a report released today. …
20 May 2008 | International news release
The 2008 IUCN Red List Birds Update: Interview
The 2008 IUCN Red List Birds Update makes grim reading with 1,226 species of birds threatened with extinction.
Ali Statersfield, Head of Science at the Bird Life Secretariat, tells Brian Thomson about the IUCN's Red List Bird Update.
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19 May 2008 | Audio
IUCN Red List 2008 for birds: Climate change and continental drift
Bonn, Germany, 19 May, 2008 (BirdLife/IUCN) – Climate change has become firmly established as an accelerant to many of the factors which have put one in eight of the world's birds at risk of extinction, today’s publication of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species äassessment for birds has found. …
19 May 2008 | International news release
We need a Bonn breakthrough, says IUCN
Bonn, Germany, May 19, 2008 (IUCN) – Bonn is the last formal international gathering where meaningful progress toward the achievement of the 2010 biodiversity target can be made, says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
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19 May 2008 | News story
Gender Workshop at CBD
IUCN’s Gender Programme held a workshop this weekend to show women the way of making the most of the CBD experience. Brian Thomson asked IUCN’s Loraina Aguilar why now. English MP3 …
19 May 2008 | Audio
IUCN sets its agenda for the CBD
When world leaders meet in Bonn in May for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), slowing down the rate of species loss will be top of the agenda. …
05 May 2008 | News story
Interview with IUCN's Constanza Martinez
With only two years left to reach the 2010 biodiversity target, the upcoming meeting on the Convention on Biological Diversity is a rare and last opportunity for action. IUCN will use this chance to address the crisis related to the rapid loss of biodiversity. Constanza Martinez of the Global Policy Unit will tell us more about the Union’s role in Bonn and its major expectations for the future. …
21 Apr 2008 | Audio
