Story | 07 Nov, 2023
Strengthening the IUCN community in Europe, North and Central Asia
The interregional meeting of the IUCN Community for Europe, North, and Central Asia took place 16-18 October in Yerevan, Armenia. It brought together IUCN Members, Commission experts from across Europe, North, and Central Asia, along with other…
Story | 08 Aug, 2023
From Passion to Action: Young Leaders Driving Sustainability at Bahrain's Eco-Summit
Sara Albanna, Bahrain Women Association for Human Development
Page | 01 Aug, 2022
IUCN ROWA 09th Regional Conservation Forum (RCF)
IUCN ROWA 09th Regional Conservation Forum (RCF)
News | 20 Jul, 2022
In the margins of the Kiwa Initiative Steering Committee meeting chaired by Canada, the Kiwa Initiative awarded grants to ten local projects in the Pacific Island Countries, as well as launched the third Kiwa regional project…
Course/training
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature/ The Regional Office for West Asia and in collaboration with the Environment Protection Authority EPA in Kuwait were organizing a training workshop on “Documenting and monitoring ecosystems using Geographic Information Systems and Remote…
Page | 29 Jun, 2022
Monitoring and Documentation of Biodiversity in Kuwait
The main purpose of this project is to document all the biodiversity elements in the State of Kuwait based on collecting previous records and updating the biodiversity components through selected field surveys. The project also aims at raising the capacity of the EPA staff in biodiversity…
Story | 12 Apr, 2022
IUCN welcomes two new Members in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
ArAves, a member-based conservation organisation from Armenia and the Urban Research Institute from Albania have joined IUCN, the world’s largest global environmental network. We wish them a warm welcome and look forward to their engagement and contributions!
Story | 05 Apr, 2022
The learning journey of NbS in the Pacific
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are defined by IUCN as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits”.
Story | 05 Apr, 2022
Capacity building sessions in the midst of COVID, a great success
A key output for the Local Projects Component is capacity building for local NGOs, civil society groups and local authorities to raise their ability to access funds and to understand and implement Nature-based Solutions for climate change adaption.