Factsheet | 2023
AFRIPAC: Tratado sobre o Desenvolvimento Efetivo de Capacidades para o Plástico Global em África
Esta é uma visão geral de uma página do projecto AFRIPAC: Reforço eficaz das capacidades para o Tratado Mundial sobre os Plásticos em África. Este projecto é realizado em parceria com a GRID-Arendal e é generosamente apoiado pela NORAD.
Fiche technique | 2023
AFRIPAC: Renforcement Efficace des capacités pour le traité mondial sur les plastiques en Afrique
Il s'agit d'un aperçu d'une page du projet AFRIPAC : Renforcement efficace des capacités pour le traité mondial sur les plastiques en Afrique. Ce projet est en partenariat avec GRID-Arendal et est généreusement soutenu par NORAD.
Factsheet | 2023
AFRIPAC Plastics Pollution: Effective Capacity Building for Global Plastics Treaty in Africa
This is a one-page overview of the AFRIPAC project: Effective Capacity Building for Global Plastics Treaty in Africa. This project is in partnership with GRID-Arendal and is generously supported by NORAD.
Story | 29 Mar, 2023
AFRIPAC: strengthening 5 countries' commitments to a UN Plastics Treaty
As the world moves towards an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, IUCN and GRID-Arendal partner in a new project: AFRIPAC, "Effective Plastic Treaty Capacity Building for Africa." This project aims to empower five African nations´ negotiating skills for a strong…
Story | 31 Jan, 2020
Finland’s Comprehensive Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) Now in English
One of the most comprehensive in the world, the assessment of threatened habitat types in Finland is now available also in English.
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 | 10 Mar, 2019
Red List of Finnish species - every ninth species in Finland is threatened
A new assessment of threatened species indicates an increasing loss of biodiversity in Finnish nature. Of the 22,000 species evaluated, 11.9% were classified as threatened. The highest proportion of threatened species is found among birds and bryophytes (mosses). The primary threat is the…
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
Restoration of Urban Longinoja Brook Wins Finnish Biodiversity Award 2017-2018
Perseverance in the voluntary restoration of the urban brook of Longinoja in the Malmi suburb of Helsinki won the Finnish Biodiversity Award 2017-2018. The winner was chosen by the National Committee of Finland of IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature. The award was given out in…
Story | 04 Mar, 2019
Finland Publishes the Most Comprehensive Red List of Ecosystems in the World
The results of the extensive assessment for the Red List of all of Finland’s terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems were published in December 2018. The threat status of ecosystem or habitat types in Finland was now evaluated for the second time, using this time the new assessment methodology called…