Story | 13 Apr, 2021
New Marine Protected Areas MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) now open
The IUCN Programme on African Protected Areas & Conservation is launching a new MOOC on Marine protected areas (MPAs). This new course will complement other courses on protected areas already available, such as Protected areas management in Africa, Ecological…
Story | 05 Apr, 2021
New book: "Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation"
CEESP News: by Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute
The book is a synthesis of community-based conservation theory and practice, written as a textbook for university students and for international conservation practitioners. Berkes argues that biodiversity…
Story | 05 Mar, 2021
Gland, Switzerland, 05 March 20201 (IUCN) – IUCN has called on governments to channel investments towards nature and nature-based solutions as part of their economic recovery packages to address the ongoing pandemic.
Article | 24 Feb, 2021
Comment mieux reconstruire après une pandémie?
De Kristen Walker Painemilla, Présidente de la UICN CPEES et Senior Vice Presidente de Conservation International's ' Center for Communities and Conservation'
La transformation, une reprise équitable accompagnée de justice sociale et le changement climatique sont tous intimement liés.…
Artículo | 23 Feb, 2021
¿Cómo reconstruir después de una pandemia?
By Kristen Walker Painemilla, Présidente de la UICN CPAES y Senior Vice Présidente de Conservation International's ' Center for Communities and Conservation'
La transformación, la recuperación equitativa con justicia social y el cambio climático están íntimamente entrelazados.
Story | 23 Feb, 2021
How Do We Build Back Better After a Pandemic?
By Kristen Walker Painemilla, Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy & Senior Vice President of Conservation International's ' Center for Communities and Conservation'
Transformation, an equitable recovery with social justice, and climate change are…
Story | 10 Feb, 2021
Pan-African Response to COVID-19: New Forms of Environmental Peacebuilding Emerge
CEESP News: by By Ousseyni Kalilou, Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao & Fakunle Aremu *
Early predictions about COVID-19’s impacts on Africa suggested that the continent would be a disaster zone marked by weak medical systems collapsing under strain and undemocratic states failing to provide…
Article | 31 Jan, 2021
CEESP News: Samir Laouadi and Gretchen Walters, University of Lausanne *
Une étude collaborative révèle comment la pandémie de la COVID-19 affecte les peuples autochtones et les communautés locales (IPLC pour l’acronyme anglais), en…
Artículo | 31 Jan, 2021
CEESP News: Gretchen Walters y Samir Laouadi, University of Lausanne *
Un estudio revela cómo la pandemia de COVID-19 está afectando a los pueblos indígenas y las comunidades locales (IPLC, por sus siglas en inglés), especialmente a los IPLC…
Story | 12 Jan, 2021
COVID-19 and Climate Change: Double Jeopardy for Traditional Resource Users in the Sundarbans
CEESP News: by Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir*
The combined impact of climate change and COVID-19 pandemic is aggravating the marginalisation of the indigenous and local communities in the Sundarbans, an area which spans across the regions of Bangladesh and India. Majority have lost their…