Story | 01 Feb, 2021
IUCN Green List tour in the lands of the pyramids
Near the World Heritage and Green Listed site Wadi Al-Hitan, in Fayoum, one of the oldest cities in Egypt, an IUCN Green List orientation workshop was organised by the IUCN Regional Office for West Asia, in collaboration with the Nature Conservation Sector of the Ministry of Environment, on 26-…
Story | 24 Sep, 2019
Championing conservation outcomes, the Green List expands in West Asia
With a new site committing to the Green List during the event, an inception meeting for a new project in the region, and a half-day workshop on the Green List with the Kuwait Environment Protection Agency, the Green List was a much talked about subject during the…
Story | 25 Jun, 2019
The IUCN North Africa Regional Conservation Forum
The IUCN Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) for IUCN North African members
Story | 25 Nov, 2018
PANORAMA initiative expands to showcase civil society engagement on business and biodiversity
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, 23 November 2018 (IUCN) – A new PANORAMA theme exploring how civil society can engage with business aims to scale up new partnerships and action to mainstream biodiversity across different sectors -- a key objective of the UN Biodiversity…
Story | 21 Nov, 2018
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 20 November 2018 — Businesses have an important role to play in protecting biodiversity, and multi-sectoral partnerships will be key to achieving this goal. This was the message voiced by IUCN and Toyota at the 2018 UN Convention on Biodiversity Conference of Parties (…
Story | 06 Jul, 2018
Towards the implementation of Nature-based solutions in climate policies in Morocco and Tunisia
Morocco and Tunisia have each created a roadmap and a working group focused on implementing Nature-based Solutions (NbS) contained in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) across different sectors. Both working groups have already identified project…
Story | 05 Nov, 2017
Le mouflon à manchettes (Ammotragus lervia) est un ongulé endémique du nord de l’Afrique dont les effectifs ne cessent de diminuer dans la région. Face à cette situation, la Direction Générale des Forêts en Tunisie en collaboration avec l’Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature (…
Story | 20 Mar, 2017
Dans le cadre du Programme de Petites Initiatives pour les Organisations de la Société Civile d'Afrique du Nord (PPI-OSCAN), et afin de continuer le processus de renforcement des capacités des associations bénéficiaires du programme dans les pays impliqués, le Centre de Coopération pour la…