Story | 17 Nov, 2023
A ray of hope for the endangered Mahseer Fish: Release of fish stock at the Kahuta Nallah
In a momentous step toward the conservation of the endangered Mahseer fish species (Tor putitora), a significant release event took place near 720 MW Karot Hydropower Dam. This initiative, aimed at safeguarding this endangered fish, carries substantial significance in the face of numerous…
Story | 23 Nov, 2022
Observance of World Fisheries Day 2022
IUCN Pakistan in partnership with Pakistan Fisheries Society & Department of Zoology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad on 21 November, 2022 commemorated One day International Symposium on "World Fisheries Day 2022" at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. The theme of the day was “…
News | 23 Jun, 2022
How best to enable communities to adapt to salinity affecting Pakistan’s coastal and irrigated agriculture areas was the focus of a workshop in Karachi recently, organised at the mid-term point of the ongoing Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin (ASSIB) project, funded by the…
Story | 17 Feb, 2021
The Sindh Forest Department, Government of Sindh, organized an event at Shah Bander to dedicate an island to Legendary Forester Tahir Qureshi – Baba-e-Mangroves (Father of Mangroves) in recognition of his services rendered towards conservation of mangroves along the Pakistan coast. The event…
Story | 08 Jan, 2020
Creating value in the wildlife economy
Dr Sue Snyman used studies of southern African protected areas, their tourist facilities, and their communities, to answer questions of why conservation in these African nations makes the wildlife economy valuable (at the Global Wildlife Program annual conference, 2019, in Pretoria, South Africa…
Story | 25 Nov, 2019
Tangled roots and changing tides: law at the service of mangrove conservation and sustainable use
A pioneering global study details the legal and institutional frameworks governing mangroves and proposes solutions to address gaps and weaknesses identified.
Story | 07 Nov, 2019
Islamabad, Pakistan, 6 November 2019 -The 7th International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Asia Regional Conservation Forum – one of Asia’s most important nature conservation events - kicked-off today with a strong focus on convening a…
Story | 23 Oct, 2019
The world of protected areas in one book, now in Spanish
The entirety of protected area management and governance has been available in one book since the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, in Sydney. The Spanish version of this publication, 'Protected Area Governance and Management’, was launched in Lima, on 15 October 2019, at the third Latin American…
Story | 23 Aug, 2019
New climate change assessments report future threats to Lao PDR’s largest peatlands
IUCN’s Mekong WET project recently conducted Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments at Lao PDR’s two Ramsar sites, Beung Kiat Ngong and Xe Champhone, to understand how climate change impacts will affect species, habitats, and livelihoods. Results show that changes in rainfall will negatively…
Story | 22 Mar, 2019
Last November 2018, IUCN, through its Mekong WET project, and the Department of Freshwater and Wetlands Conservation (DFWC) of the Ministry of Environment (MoE) in Cambodia, organised a three-day Ramsar Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (R-METT) Training…