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In several Asian countries, bears are farmed for their bile, which is an ingredient in traditional medicine. In 2012, nine IUCN Members tabled a motion at the IUCN World Conservation Congress to phase-out bear farms on the grounds that farms may harm bear conservation. The motion triggered…

IUCN, with support from USAID, is implementing a conservation project in sites of high coastal biodiversity in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, with a focus on social inclusion, to strengthen community governance of natural resources in contexts free of gender-based violence. 

Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment has renewed its support for World Heritage Leadership, a capacity-building programme jointly run by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of…

In an effort to help solve some of the contentious issues of the negotiations and to clarify the technical aspects around the questions at hand, IUCN’s International Policy Centre planned a series of webinars around the CBD post-2020 global biodiversity framework in the lead-up to and following…

La Amazonía concentra el 53 % de los bosques tropicales del mundo y cubre una extensión de aproximadamente 7 millones de km2 en 9 países en América del Sur. A pesar de su importancia, la cuenca amazónica y sus poblaciones indígenas sufren constantes amenazas. ¿Qué se está…