Story | 28 Jan, 2022
So far, UNESCO has designated 1154 World Heritage Sites, 169 Global Geoparks, and 727 Biosphere Reserves. Among them, there are nearly 200 sites that hold two of these three designations, and 8 sites with all three designations. Huangshan is one of these eight. These sites are outstanding…
Story | 28 Jan, 2022
The Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus), the world’s rarest primate and the most endangered among all gibbon species in the world, rated as Critically Endangered by IUCN. With less than 10 individuals remaining in the 1980s, the population has risen to 35 in 2021. The conservation of Hainan gibbon…
Story | 11 Jan, 2022
Meet inspiring PANORAMA Solution Providers: Yan Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Opening a space for PANORAMA Solutions Providers, to express their perceptions and perspectives on global issues. We aim at valuing their knowledge and know-how as well as collecting their recommendations and needs for upscaling and accelerating the impacts of their solution. We want to discuss…
Story | 18 Nov, 2021
Pathfinder Award 2021 winners announced: IUCN and UNDP recognise innovation in nature conservation
On 15 November 2021, the online ceremony of the Pathfinder Award felicitated four winners from China, India, Madagascar, and Tanzania. This award recognises and celebrates their innovative, integrated approaches to protected and conserved area management that successfully conserve nature while…
Story | 07 May, 2021
Working closely with ten organisations in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, the Building River Dialogue and Governance for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins (BRIDGE GBM) project, facilitated by IUCN, has…
Story | 31 Jan, 2021
Community Conservation Area volunteers safeguard 5,000 wintering Oriental Storks in Tianjin, China
CEESP News: by Linda Wong, Jinfeng Zhou and Xiaohong Yang, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation
The coastal city of Tianjin witnessed about 5,000 Oriental storks wintering in 2020, almost doubling the population from previous years. However, the picture may…
Story | 29 Oct, 2020
A new approach for restoring China's state forest farms
Wang Hui, Senior Forestry Engineer, shares his thoughts on incorporating the forest landscape restoration approach at the Mulan State Forest Farm in China.
Story | 15 Oct, 2020
As climate change impacts intensify across the globe, the prevalence of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation, also known as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), has also been increasing, with various actors including governments, private sector, non-governmental organisations and community…
Story | 03 Jun, 2020
CEESP News: by Jinfeng Zhou, Linda Wong, Charlotte Hong, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation*
Emergent e-commerce benefits peoples daily lives in numerous ways, but it has also made illegal wildlife trade easy and convenient. During COVID-19, Chinese civil…
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
Developing a Ramsar Site Management Plan for Nepal’s largest lake
IUCN, in collaboration with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) Nepal, is working with stakeholders at Rara Lake Ramsar Site to develop a management plan for the lake’s conservation and…