Story | 06 May, 2021
Businesses consultation discusses draft decree on Extended Producer Responsibility
On December 18th 2020, IUCN, in collaboration Department of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) held a consultation workshop to get feedback on the draft decree of the newly established Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for…
Story | 30 Apr, 2021
IUCN Bangladesh has initiated a project supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) titled as “Building Resilience to Landslides through Land Stabilization, Promotion of Alternative Livelihoods and the Early Warning Systems in Cox’s Bazar District”. As part of…
Story | 29 Apr, 2021
Lake Urmia is one of the largest inland lakes located in northwestern Iran. This vast hyper-saline lake is a Ramsar Site, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a National Park.
The White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala) is listed as an…
Story | 23 Apr, 2021
New book: Commons institutions and how they work (or not)
CEESP News: by Prateep Kumar Nayak, Editor, and by Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba*
Conservation depends on understanding the motivations of people who use biodiversity and practice stewardship. As a shared resource, biodiversity is both a local and a global commons. Commons…
Story | 22 Apr, 2021
Strengthening conservation and restoration through the Species Threat Abatement and Recovery metric
A new tool – the Species Threat Abatement and Recovery metric – promises to help practitioners assess the potential for conserving threatened biodiversity, and set site scale or landscape scale targets compatible with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Strategy.…