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Kigali, Rwanda, 18 July 2022 – The IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) – the first-ever Pan-African gathering of leaders, citizens, and interest groups focused on protected areas – begins today in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, with an address by the Prime Minister of Rwanda, Édouard…

The IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC), from 18 to 23 July 2022 in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, is the first ever continent-wide gathering of African leaders, citizens, and interest groups to discuss the role of protected areas in conserving nature, safeguarding Africa’s iconic…

The Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) Ubuntoo "Greenhouse" currently holds hundreds of product, knowledge resources, and a news feed about plastic leakage and pollution specific to Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It resides within the Ubuntoo environmental solutions platform, to build…

As part of the Great Blue Wall initiative, designed to accelerate ocean conservation and regenerative economic development in the Western Indian Ocean, IUCN and Blue Forest Company used the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon to announce a new blue carbon partnership, with work beginning in Mozambique…

The Great Blue Wall is a Western Indian Ocean (WIO)-led, Africa driven roadmap to achieve a nature positive world by 2030. Its goal is to dramatically accelerate and upscale ocean conservation actions (SDG14) while enhancing socio-ecological resilience (SDG 15) and the development of a…