Project | 05 Jul, 2016 - 30 Jun, 2024
Managing mangroves and production landscapes for climate change mitigation
Story | 06 Jun, 2023
Tackling climate change, food security, and community development in Guinea-Bissau
Addressing the intertwined issues of climate change, ensuring food security, and fostering community development in Guinea-Bissau.
Factsheet | 2023
AFRIPAC Plastics Pollution: Effective Capacity Building for Global Plastics Treaty in Africa
This is a one-page overview of the AFRIPAC project: Effective Capacity Building for Global Plastics Treaty in Africa. This project is in partnership with GRID-Arendal and is generously supported by NORAD.
Story | 29 Mar, 2023
AFRIPAC: strengthening 5 countries' commitments to a UN Plastics Treaty
As the world moves towards an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, IUCN and GRID-Arendal partner in a new project: AFRIPAC, "Effective Plastic Treaty Capacity Building for Africa." This project aims to empower five African nations´ negotiating skills for a strong…
Story | 06 Dec, 2022
The Restoration Initiative: A Guinea-Bissau story
Helping local communities turn the tide on degraded mangrove forests in Guinea-Bissau
News | 28 Nov, 2022
Innsbruck Nature Film Festival promotes art and nature education to a diverse audience
The 21st edition of Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (INFF), in partnership with the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), took place in Tyrol, Austria between October 15-18, 2022. IUCN CEC member and INFF Founder & Director, Mr. Johannes Kostenzer and IUCN CEC Regional Vice…
Crossroads blog | 22 Feb, 2022
To save the addax antelope, the oil sector and government must work together with conservationists
The addax desert antelope may be the world’s rarest hoofed mammal, with as few as 100 animals left in the wild. Despite oil exploration and extraction in and around their last remaining habitat, conservation efforts can still save the species from extinction if government agencies, big business…
Story | 11 Jan, 2022
UNESCO declares world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve along Mura-Drava-Danube
Stretching across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia, the world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve, which has been declared by UNESCO in September 2021 covers 700 km of the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers and a total area of almost 1 million hectares in the so-called ‘Amazon of Europe…