Press release | 13 Oct, 2014
Inger Andersen wordt nieuwe directeur-generaal IUCN
De Deense Inger Andersen wordt de nieuwe directeur-generaal van de International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Per januari 2015 volgt zij Julia Marton-Lefèvre op, die de functie sinds 2007 vervult.
Story | 10 Sep, 2014
A good news story unfolds for mantas and sharks
What did it take to get here? And what will it take to go further? asks Isabel Ender, Conservation Strategy Manager with the Manta Trust, an SOS Grantee.
Story | 15 Jul, 2014
Call for nominations for the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of IPBES
IPBES has issued a call for nominations for the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) for the three-year term 2015–2017, replacing the current interim MEP. The MEP is an important body as it is responsible for overseeing the…
Artículo | 15 Jul, 2014
Convocatoria de candidaturas para el Grupo Multidisciplinario de Expertos de la IPBES
La IPBES hizo un llamamiento para la presentación de candidaturas para el Grupo Multidisciplinario de Expertos (MEP) para el trienio 2015-2017, en sustitución del actual MEP provisional. El MEP es un órgano importante por…
Article | 15 Jul, 2014
Appel à candidature au Groupe d’Experts Multidisciplinaires de la IPBES
La Plateforme IPBES a lancé un appel à nomination d’experts qui intégreront son Groupe d’Experts Multidisciplinaires (MEP) pour une durée de trois ans, de 2015 à 2017, en remplacement d’une partie de l’actuel MEP en intérim…
Story | 09 Jul, 2014
SOS Marine: Collaboration key to saving Bangladesh’s cetaceans from gillnets
The lives of Bangladesh's fishermen and its coastal cetaceans are intertwined. Regarded as their brethren at sea, fishermen often lament the death of these top predators through entanglement in gillnets. Finding mutually beneficial solutions, Brian Smith and colleague Rubaiyat Mowgli Mansur,…
Story | 16 Jun, 2014
SOS grantee Michael Dine of WWF, an IUCN member, has been updating SOS on field activities from his project to help protect the Critically Endangered Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis). This is one of two SOS funded projects helping to protect the little known and rarely seen forest bovid – cousin…
Story | 12 Jun, 2014
arborvitae Issue 45 - Forest Landscape Restoration: Potential and Impacts
Press release | 12 Jun, 2014
IUCN nimmt weitere gefährdete Arten in Rote Liste auf
Fast 80 % der Orchideen der Unterfamilie der Cypripedioideae der gemäßigten Breiten und über 90 % der Lemuren sind nach der neuesten Ausgabe der Roten Liste gefährdeter Arten der Weltnaturschutzunion IUCN [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™] vom Aussterben bedroht. Der neu beurteilte…
Press release | 12 Jun, 2014
IUCN Red List raises more red flags for threatened species
Almost 80% of temperate slipper orchids and over 90% of lemurs are threatened with extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The newly assessed Japanese Eel has been listed as Endangered, while the Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo – the mascot of the…