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Harvesting octopus from a locally managed marine area in Aceh, Indonesia
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Biodiversity conservation initiatives have unfulfilled potential to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals
08.10.2018CEESP News - by Dr. Helen Schneider, Flora and Fauna International The University of Cambridge has launched an online tool to help conservationists identify how biodiversity projects can contribute to the SDG targets. The tool draws on the experiences of...
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Green Crime in Mexico
03.10.2018CEESP News - by Dr. Ines Arroyo-Quiroz and Tanya Wyatt Green Crime in Mexico: A Collection of Case Studies (2018) offers a unique exploration of the key green criminological issues in Mexico. Builds on a rapidly growing area of scholarship in Latin...
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Returning Earth to Mankind and Mankind to Earth: An Ecosystemic Approach to Advocacy, Public Policies, Research and Teaching Programmes
03.10.2018CEESP News - by André Francisco Pilon, University of São Paulo / Int. Academy of Science, Health & Ecology In view of the overwhelming pressures on the global environment and the need to disrupt the systems that drive them, an ecosystemic...
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Madagascar's Southern Region: A socio-economic, historic, cultural, political, anthropological and environmental analysis
01.10.2018CEESP News - by Tim Healy, AQUATERRE "The Deep South" study walks us from the past to the present examining the evolution of the semi-arid lands of southern Madagascar. From trading to semi-nomadism to sedentary agriculture, the peoples of the region have...
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New guidance for conservation and sustainable livelihoods for freshwater biodiversity in the Lake Victoria Basin
19.09.2018CEESP News- Catherine Sayer, IUCN Program Officer, and Cory Whitney, University of Bonn A recent assessment of the livelihoods value of freshwater biodiversity in the Lake Victoria Basin in Eastern Africa has demonstrated that freshwater plants and fishes...
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New publication: Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters
29.08.2018Good water governance will be a cornerstone of global water security over the coming decades. A central dimension of water security involves the protection, allocation and sharing of increasingly scarce and polluted water resources among humans and the...
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: CHAIR OF SULI (starting Jan 2019) Nominations due 8 September
09.08.2018CEESP NEWS - The current Chair of the IUCN CEESP/SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi), Rosie Cooney, will be stepping down at the end of 2018. CEESP and SSC are calling for nominations for her replacement. If you think you may be...
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Honoring the memory of Dr. Mohammad Taghi Farvar
25.07.2018CEESP News - Emma Courtine, Programme and Communication Officer, ICCA Consortium M. Taghi Farvar, a larger-than-life man, son of Shahsevan indigenous nomadic tribe pastoralists in Iranian Azerbaijan, twice chair of the IUCN CEESP (from 2000-2008), passed...
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Indigenous voices amplified in 'Landing Together' film series
23.07.2018CEESP News -- Dr. Purabi Bose, Filmmaker, Deputy Chair of CEESP Theme on Governance, Equity and Rights It is rare that the voices of the voiceless get any recognition. Landing Together's new four short indie documentary films capture the...
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IUCN mourns the passing of Dr Mohammad Taghi-Farvar
23.07.2018It is with great sorrow that we inform you that Dr Mohammad Taghi-Farvar passed away on Monday 16 July 2018.
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