Factsheet | 2019
Fact sheet - Risks of supressing natural flows within a source-to-sea system
This Issue Paper 3 examines the environmental and social risks of maintaining a dam between Lake Juparanã and its connector, the Pequeno River.
Factsheet | 2019
Fact sheet - The fishing ban after the Fundão Dam failure
The Issue Paper 2 proposes the use of the precautionary principle for the resumption of fishing in the Rio Doce Basin.
Factsheet | 2019
Fact sheet - Alternative livelihoods
This first of a series of Issue Papers analyse the impacts on economic activities, the path decpendecy and measures to create new opportunities of livelihoods for the Rio Doce watershed.
Story | 03 Mar, 2023
Women fishers in Manipur’s Loktak Lake strive for its restoration
Salam Rajesh, CEESP member
The fishing community in Manipur’s Loktak Lake faces a tough life negotiating between the need to eke out a living in a wetland whose ecosystem is fairly degraded, and striving to take part in its restoration. The women fishers share equal…
Story | 02 Mar, 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 | 07 Dec, 2022
Manipur fishers hold rally raising awareness on Loktak biodiversity
CEESP News: Salam Rajesh, IUCN CEESP member
Fishing community in Manipur’s Loktak Lake, a Ramsar designated wetland, is blending conservation initiatives with addressing imminent threats to their lives and livelihoods from external interventions. In tune with the objectives…
Story | 04 Feb, 2020
The Marine Plastic Footprint report: calculating the millions of tonnes that end up in the oceans
In The Marine Plastic Footprint, Joao Sousa of IUCN introduces new measures to understand and calculate the frightening leakage of plastic into the marine environment - by following its movement through every stage from production to waste to final destination.
Three integrated case…
Story | 10 Jan, 2019
Building the global momentum on marine/aquatic plastics litter
Along with over 18,000 participants from 180 countries representing government institutions, national agencies, academia and research, private sector, students, and plastic sector actors, IUCN joined the Sustainable Blue…
Story | 05 Oct, 2018
Mangroves For the Future video: A look back
IUCN Asia and Mangroves for the Future (MFF) have produced a video showcasing MFF’s growth and impact in Asia. This video was recently premiered at the 15th meeting of the MFF Regional Steering Committee that took place in Bali, Indonesia, at the end of September…
Story | 16 May, 2018
Less is more: Climate-smart agricultural techniques maximise income and land productivity
In Badadiya village in Odisha, India, agriculture generates little income – yet many households are forced to rely on it for lack of viable alternatives. Most of the land in the area is being converted to prawn farms, and the damage to the environment and to social equity that comes with prawn…