Story | 28 Jan, 2022
Growing floating rice in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta provides increased financial returns to farmers
A pilot study on 93 hectares around the Lang Sen Wetlands Nature Reserve found that there is a high potential to further scale-up flood-based agriculture to provide economic benefits to farmers, while simultaneously decreasing negative…
Story | 27 Jan, 2022
Symposium on Peatlands in Lao PDR
Over the course of two days during 21 and 22 January 2022, the MONRE Vice Minister Chanthaneth Boualapha presided over Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s (Lao PDR) first ever Symposium on Peatlands, held in Viengkham Districts, Vientiane Province.
Story | 09 Dec, 2021
The Blue Carbon Policy Project is operational
Striving to make international policies coherent and aligned, to accelerate coastal ecosystem conservation.
Story | 08 Dec, 2021
CEESP News: by Melanie Zurba and Anastasia Papadopoulos *
In this article, we present systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature on Indigenous participation in Global Environmental Governance (GEG) forums, and focus on the specific questions: (1) what GEG forums include Indigenous…
Story | 25 Nov, 2021
Strengthening local capacity to monitor migratory waterbirds in northern Viet Nam
Written by Le Trong Trai and Yong Ding Li
Story | 22 Nov, 2021
They work the land. They protect the land. Does COP26 notice?
Indigenous peoples and local communities are included in the final version of the 26th session of the UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26)’s decision text, a definite success compared to previous years. Direct financing for these groups…
Story | 16 Nov, 2021
Throughout 2021, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) collaborated with local and national government agencies and community members surrounding Boeung Prek Lapouv Protected Landscape to restore flooded forests and seasonally inundated…
Press release | 12 Nov, 2021
IUCN welcomes recognition of nature’s role at COP26 and calls for more ambition
IUCN welcomes the progress made in Glasgow, including with respect to nature. However, it stresses that this headway will not be sufficient to “keep 1.5°C alive”, and calls for significant and meaningful step change at COP27. We are running out of time and options.
Story | 11 Nov, 2021
IUCN spurs restoration action and monitoring by launching a typology of restoration interventions for ALL terrestrial ecosystem types including coasts and inland waters. The IUCN Restoration Intervention Typology for Terrestrial Ecosystems (RITTE…
Story | 07 Nov, 2021
Adaptive Collaborative Management of Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society
CEESP News: by Carol J. Pierce Colfer *
Adaptive Collaborative Management of Forest Landscapes: Villagers, Bureaucrats and Civil Society is a edited collection by 20 international scholars and practitioners who have conducted Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) around the world,…