Story | 10 Jun, 2024
Nairobi, Kenya: In April 2024, senior government officials from the Ministries and Agencies responsible for Water, Energy, Agriculture, Legal Affairs and Finance from Kenya and Uganda, in addition to staff from NELSAP-CU and IUCN met to action the next steps in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM)…
Story | 30 May, 2024
Communities Drive the Designation of Pyu Lake as Myanmar’s Newest Ramsar Site
Pyu Lake, located in the heart of Myanmar, has secured two consecutive ‘wins’ for its conservation over the past year. Following the designation of the site as a Flyway Network Site with the East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) on 16 November 2023, the lake was designated as the…
Project | 01 Jan, 2016 - 30 Jun, 2024
Sustainable Management of Peatland Ecosystems in Mekong Countries
Project | 01 Jul, 2016 - 30 Sep, 2024
Project | 27 Dec, 2016 - 31 Mar, 2023
The work area of the Amazon 2.0 project is implemented in: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname. Its mission is to strengthen forest governance models in indigenous and peasant territories of the Amazon biome.
Project | 30 Aug, 2017 - 30 Apr, 2023
Rio Doce Panel - Independent Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (ISTAP)
The Rio Doce Panel is an Independent Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (ISTAP) convened and managed by IUCN to provide objective recommendations to the restoration of the Rio Doce watershed.
Project | 01 Jan, 2019 - 31 May, 2022
Building River Dialogue and Governance - Phase 4
BRIDGE promotes cooperation and water diplomacy in the 9 transboundary basins between Ecuador and Peru, and in the Titicaca basin, shared between Bolivia and Peru.
Press release | 16 Dec, 2021
IUCN report identifies sites with World Heritage potential in Himalaya and beyond
Gland, Switzerland, 16 December 2021 (IUCN) – A new report lists seven broad areas in the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram mountain ranges where new natural World Heritage sites could be found. It also identifies possible extensions of existing World Heritage sites,…
Story | 06 Dec, 2021
Rio Doce: governance beyond reparation
The existing institutions were not prepared to respond to the disaster caused by the Samarco dam collapse.*