News | 20 Mar, 2024
PANORAMA launches revamped web platform to amplify solutions for a Healthier Planet
The PANORAMA initiative proudly unveils its revamped web platform, designed to foster streamlined knowledge discovery, enhance inclusivity, and deepen peer connectivity. The relaunch supports the initiative’s mission to document and promote replicable solutions across diverse…
IUCN Statement | 19 Dec, 2022
IUCN welcomes the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which was adopted at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) in Montreal, Canada on 19 December 2022 after four long years of negotiations. We congratulate the Chinese Presidency, Canadian hosts and the CBD secretariat for their…
Story | 12 Mar, 2020
Report: Blue Infrastructure Finance, where all win
All coastal and marine ecosystems are critical to human well-being and global biodiversity. Mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass beds are examples of these. But urban and rural infrastructure investments are having a heavy negative impact on these systems, and it is…
Story | 18 Nov, 2018
New study looks at increasing the success and effectiveness of mangrove conservation investments
Research offers guidance on making mangrove conservation investments more sustainable and impactful
Story | 12 Jun, 2014
arborvitae Issue 45 - Forest Landscape Restoration: Potential and Impacts
Story | 28 Aug, 2013
Review of Poverty Reduction in the Doi Mae Salong Landscape Project
Between 2007 and 2010, IUCN’s Thailand Programme implemented a project in Doi Mae Salong (DMS), Chiang Rai Province, in collaboration with the Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTAF) and other partners. This project was part of IUCN’s global Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS).
Story | 16 Jul, 2013
Moving Closer to Nature - Miyun Landscape, China
Substantial efforts have been made over the last 30 or 40 years to reforest the Miyun landscape. These efforts were a response to the very urgent need to protect the Miyun reservoir and its watershed, which supplies up to 80% of the water used in Bejing, China’s capital city. Over the last…
Story | 01 Feb, 2011
IUCN congratulates the Ramsar Convention on its 40th anniversary
Video message of IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Ramsar Convention
Story | 02 Jan, 2011
IUCN welcomes ‘Forests 2011’ - International Year of Forests
The world’s forests are essential to life in all its diversity and to attaining humanity’s biggest goals such as reducing poverty, curbing climate change and achieving sustainable development. Throughout 2011 IUCN will work towards making sure that forests deliver their maximum potential for…
Artículo | 02 Jan, 2011
UICN da la bienvenida al Año Internacional de los Bosques
Los bosques del mundo son esenciales para la vida, su diversidad y para alcanzar los objetivos más grandes de la humanidad, tales como: reducir la pobreza, frenar el cambio climático y lograr un desarrollo sostenible. Durante 2011, la UICN trabajará para asegurar que los bosques ofrezcan su…