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The search for the Host Country for the 2020 IUCN World Conservation Congress gives countries the opportunity to showcase their leadership on global environmental issues.

La recherche de l’État hôte pour le Congrès mondial de la nature de l’UICN 2020 donne aux pays l’occasion d’exercer leur autorité sur les questions environnementales mondiales 

The answer is yes. Restoring and protecting mangroves helps fulfil multiple Global Goals, from improving life below water, to reducing poverty and hunger, to many goals in between. We take a closer look at why.

IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, welcomed a recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Environment and Human Rights, Prof. John Knox, which highlights how biodiversity and ecosystems are essential to human rights. 

When farmers and small land holders organise into producer groups to support both livelihoods and forests, remarkable things can happen to a landscape – including a system to sustainably harness energy from forests. That is exactly what happened in a small agroforestry venture in Thailand – and…