Story | 22 Mar, 2020
An integrative approach to assess and mitigate the social impacts of a disaster
CEESP News: by Renata Bennet, Communication Officer at IUCN, on behalf of the Rio Doce Panel
A new publication released by the Rio Doce Panel recommends the adoption of an integrative approach to human and ecosystem health for a sustainable recovery of the Rio Doce Basin in the context…
Story | 13 Mar, 2020
The Rio Doce Panel highlights the interlinkage between human health and healthy, sustainable ecosystems.
Story | 10 Mar, 2020
Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action
CEESP News: by Vicky Tauli-Corpuz (a), Janis Alcorn (b), Augusta Molnar (c),⇑, Christina Healy (d), Edmund Barrow (e) **
A new publication " Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action" in the academic…
Story | 04 Feb, 2020
The Marine Plastic Footprint report: calculating the millions of tonnes that end up in the oceans
In The Marine Plastic Footprint, Joao Sousa of IUCN introduces new measures to understand and calculate the frightening leakage of plastic into the marine environment - by following its movement through every stage from production to waste to final destination.
Three integrated case…
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 | 06 Nov, 2019
Rio Doce Panel debates the importance of protected areas in the context of disasters
Representatives of the Rio Doce Panel and IUCN Brazil presented the case of the Rio Doce Basin during the III Congress of Protected Areas of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAPLAC), in Lima, Peru.
Story | 30 Sep, 2019
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, 30 September 2019 (IUCN) — After nearly four years, the environmental and social impacts caused by the Fundão Dam failure, where 39 million m³ of mineral waste spilled into the Rio Doce Basin, are still not fully understood, according…
Story | 24 Sep, 2019
Campinas, September, 24th, 2019 (IUCN) — Aiming to discuss the effects of human actions over the years and their connection with the current ecological crisis, the XIII Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Ecological Economics brings together researchers and institutions with transdisciplinary…
Story | 23 Sep, 2019
Youssouph Diedhiou, quiet achiever, making a protected area a vital community neighbour
He wanted to help make the communities skirting Niokolo Koba National Park in Senegal become a part in the mechanism of protection by bringing the protected area management services to the lives of those communities' members. Here's what Youssouph did and how it worked.
Story | 28 Aug, 2019
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, August 27, 2019 - Recommendations of the Independent Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel for the restoration of the Rio Doce Basin were presented on Tuesday, August 27, at the 40th ordinary meeting of the Interfederative Committee (ICF), in Belo Horizonte.