Project | 28 Jul, 2021 - 31 Oct, 2022
Key basins and aquifers for biodiversity and ecological services - Vjosa River
News | 09 Nov, 2023
ReSea Project Launched to Strengthen Coastal Communities in Tanzania
The Regenerative Seascapes Project for Planet, Nature, and People, known as ReSea, has today officially launched in Tanzania. This ambitious three-year, $30 million initiative, with a dedicated allocation of $5.5 million for Tanzania, is set to be executed through a partnership between Mission…
Story | 08 Aug, 2023
Enhancing Water Governance in the Ruvuma River Basin
The Ruvuma River Basin is a vital water source for communities, agriculture, and industries in Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique. Learn how Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States, in collaboration with IUCN through BRIDGE 5, are strengthening water cooperation in the region.…
Story | 29 Jun, 2023
Navigating transboundary waters in Eastern and Southern Africa
Water, a precious resource that knows no boundaries, plays a vital role in sustaining ecosystems and supporting socio-economic development. Effective management and governance of transboundary water resources are crucial to ensure sustainable development in regions where multiple countries share…
Story | 22 Dec, 2022
Indigenous Women’s Insights – Stewarding the Earth
In November, all along the busy maze of pavilion buildings in Sharm el Sheik, an estimated 45,000 people snaked along corridors hoping to inform crucial discussions surrounding climate policy at the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention’s 27th Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP 27).…
Story | 02 Feb, 2022
Safeguarding the wetlands in the Buna delta
To celebrate the 2022 World Wetlands Day, the Living Buna project partners release two videos portraying the efforts of the local community to safeguard the wetlands in the Buna River delta in Albania.
Story | 01 Feb, 2021
Paving the road to the green economic development in the Buna Delta
IUCN and Living Buna partners are encouraging sustainable socio-economic development in north Albania, by focusing on the ecosystem and habitat restoration through the community based actions, in an area of 23,000 ha of the Buna Delta.
Story | 04 Sep, 2020
Three landscape conservation projects converge in the Kilombero Valley
Kilombero Valley in Tanzania is an area of high biodiversity – including a Ramsar listed wetland – that is under ever-increasing human pressure. It is also part of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), a public-private partnership initiated through…
Story | 26 Mar, 2019
Acknowledging concerns around the legal and institutional frameworks governing mangroves, the Save Our Mangroves Now!
Story | 06 Feb, 2019
Kilombero Valley, where Tanzania’s Kilombero Catchment is located, is immensely important to the nation and to the world due to its precious wetlands resources and ever-dependable rivers – enriching the soils and making the lands…