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Les francophones se mobilisent pour le congrès mondial de la nature !
Trois jours de travail intensif entre l’UICN (Bureaux de Bruxelles et de Montréal), la Francophonie (IEPF) et le Gouvernement du Québec ont permis de finaliser le programme des manifestations francophones au congrès de Barcelone et de sécuriser une partie des financements. …
14 Mar 2008 | News story
IUCN’s USA Multilateral Office Supports Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program Workshop
From March 6-7, 2008, the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) convened a group of international experts and stakeholders from arctic nations to participate in a workshop entitled “Building a Partnership for Enhanced Understanding and Conservation of Arctic Biodiversity,” held at World Wildlife Fund’s Washington DC headquarters. …
14 Mar 2008 | News story
North American Environmental Atlas - Now Online
A new online information tool from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) provides a suite of materials that allows users to visualize significant North American environmental issues at a continental scale. The North American Environmental Atlas brings together maps, data, interactive map layers, and links to other related materials.
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13 Mar 2008 | News story
Protected Areas Information Module
The Protected Areas Management Effectiveness Information Module (PAME) has been developed to help the conservation community share experiences and ideas on management effectiveness, as well as provide ‘lessons learned’ from these assessments. …
13 Mar 2008 | News story
World Database of Protected Areas - Updated
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN have been working hard over the past year gathering, analysing and disseminating information about the world's protected areas. The World Database on Protected Areas …
13 Mar 2008 | News story
A safer marine environment thanks to IUCN member "JREDS"
The field work of the Royal Marine Conservation Society (JREDS) paid last week with two recorded successes. The Society is a major actor in the marine environment in Jordan focusing on sustainable management of Jordanian coastline and marine environment. The Jordanian coast is 27 km long and mainly composed of coral reefs. These particularly sensible organisms face different threats from coral traffic to ships pollution or bleaching due to climate change. …
13 Mar 2008 | News story
Montenegro and IUCN unite efforts to protect nature
The creation of marine protected areas to safeguard biodiversity has been identified as a first step to meet international standards …
13 Mar 2008 | International news release
Trouver des financements pour les aires protégées ouest africaines
En vue de répondre aux difficultés rencontrées par de nombreux gestionnaires de parcs et responsables d’ONG pour accéder à des financements internationaux, le Bureau de l’UICN pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest (BRAO) a sollicité l’appui du Bureau régional pour l’Europe (ROfE) dont certaines activités couvrent la recherche de financements auprès de bailleurs européens. …
12 Mar 2008 | News story
29 new members have joined IUCN
At its 69th Meeting, the IUCN Council admitted 29 new members. A diverse and influential group of governmental agencies, national and international non-governmental organizations from Africa, Asia, Europe, Meso & South America, North America and the Caribbean, these newly admitted organizations and/or institutions will share and support the Union’s mission which is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. Click here for the List of newly admitted members. …
12 Mar 2008 | News story
Call for Papers - 2008 Alexandre Kiss Award
The IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) has the mission to advance sustainability through the development of legal and policy concepts and instruments and through building the capacity of societies to develop and implement environmental law and policy, in furtherance of the IUCN mission. …
11 Mar 2008 | News story
