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Oil and gas company Total has confirmed that it will not carry out extractive operations within natural World Heritage sites, including Virunga National Park. IUCN welcomes this decision and calls on all oil and gas companies to follow suit.

Het Franse bedrijf Total heeft toegezegd geen olie- en gaswinning uit te voeren in gebieden die op de lijst van het werelderfgoed staan. Dit is goed nieuws voor het Afrikaanse natuurgebied Virunga, dat al jaren onder druk staat van oliemaatschappijen. Virunga is één van de laatste leefgebieden…

IUCN’s visualizing sustainable landscapes is a manual aimed to support the environmental community who is using visualization techniques to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas when dealing with conservation and development situations.…

Forest and Gender by IUCN in collaboration with Women’s environment and Development Organization (WEDO), USA

Edited by Lorena Aguilar, Andrea Quesada-Aguilar and Daniel D.M.P. Shaw

It is commonly claimed that forest tenure reform that provides rural people with rights to access and use of forest resources can contribute to improved forest management and poverty alleviation. But, at least with respect to poverty alleviation, there are few experiences with formal forest…