News | 25 apr, 2024
Washington DC, April 25, 2024 — Four new projects are addressing gender-based violence in the context of climate and conservation action through funding from the Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge across Central America, Eastern and Southern Africa and…
Brochure | 2024
IUCN Africa Conservation Forum 2024
African Solutions for Nature and People: Creating transformative responses to the biodiversity and climate crisis in Africa.
News | 27 nov, 2023
New report on High Seas Biodiversity Treaty gives accessible at-a-glance introduction
This introductory report's target audience is professionals from governments, civil society, private sector, and other stakeholders who know multilateral processes and treaties but are not high seas “BBNJ (biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction) experts”. The report is more digestible than…
Grey literature | 2023
High Seas Biodiversity Treaty Policy Brief
An Introduction to the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
News | 09 nov, 2023
ReSea Project Launched to Strengthen Coastal Communities in Kenya
The Regenerative Seascapes Project for Planet, Nature and People (ReSea) was officially launched at an event in Dabaso Primary School, Watamu, Kilifi County, Kenya. ReSea is a 3-year, $30 million project, $7 million of which goes to Kenya, implemented by Mission Inclusion in partnership with the…
News | 09 nov, 2023
ReSea Project Launched to Strengthen Coastal Communities in Tanzania
The Regenerative Seascapes Project for Planet, Nature, and People, known as ReSea, has today officially launched in Tanzania. This ambitious three-year, $30 million initiative, with a dedicated allocation of $5.5 million for Tanzania, is set to be executed through a partnership between Mission…
Story | 29 sep, 2023
Almost universally, women are dependent on fish resources obtained by men for their livelihoods. Unfortunately, as gender-based violence (GBV) is used across environment sectors to assert control over land and natural resources – and can be exacerbated in the context of environmental degradation…
Story | 02 mrt, 2023
Supporting small-scale fisher women’s livelihoods in the Eastern Cape of South Africa
Buhle Francis, early-career researcher at One Ocean Hub and the Environmental Learning Research Centre (ELRC) at Rhodes University
Story | 22 dec, 2022
Indigenous Women’s Insights – Stewarding the Earth
In November, all along the busy maze of pavilion buildings in Sharm el Sheik, an estimated 45,000 people snaked along corridors hoping to inform crucial discussions surrounding climate policy at the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention’s 27th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP 27).…
IUCN event
Together we RISE: Addressing gender-based violence in conservation
Gender-based violence prevents women from benefiting from and participating in environmental action. This side event raises attention to IUCN’s leadership on addressing gender-based violence and biodiversity linkages; a strategic action that supports the CBD’s post-2020 draft Gender Plan of…