Story | 13 Jun, 2024
Kiwa Initiative promotes gender equality in Nature-based Solutions for land restoration
As we celebrate World Environment Day, this event is very important for communities around the world who are closely connected to the health of our environment. World Environment Day has encouraged people to protect and restore the natural areas that support us all.
Blog | 13 Jun, 2024
Preserving Life's Tapestry: A Deep Dive into World Biodiversity Day Celebrations
Speech | 13 Jun, 2024
Message from IUCN Regional Director Oceania: Embracing the Theme "Be Part of the Plan"
As we commemorate World Biodiversity Day this year, it's essential to embrace the theme "Be Part of the Plan." This theme underscores the collective responsibility we all share in safeguarding biodiversity and ensuring a sustainable future for our planet.
Story | 12 Jun, 2024
BBNJ Agreement for Ocean Conservation
On this World Ocean Day, we celebrate a pivotal achievement in ocean conservation: the adoption of a new legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to address governance gaps biodiversity protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (…
Blog | 01 Feb, 2022
As a kid in my early years growing up in Labasa on the Northern side of Fiji, I would always follow the neighbours’ kids who were very well versed in coastal living and were very in touch with the traditional ways of living off the resources in the coastal areas. They were from the island of…
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 | 27 Dec, 2021
China launches new guidelines for coastal ecosystems to enhance disaster risk reduction
In 2018, the highest decision-making body on financial and economic issues in China mandated competent authorities to implement coastal conservation and restoration projects through the use of Nature-based Solutions to keep resilient…
Story | 22 Dec, 2021
Nature-based Solutions for ecological conservation and restoration explored at CBD COP15 in China
Kunming, China (IUCN) – China’s Ministry of Natural Resources, together with IUCN, organised an event, “Nature-based Solutions for Ecological Conservation and Restoration,” as part of the Ecological Civilisation Forum during the Convention on…