Story | 07 Jan, 2019
The Kishoka Youth Organization and 250 young people moved 1,000 tons of waste in 12 hours in Mombasa County, Kenya
Story | 19 Dec, 2018
IUCN calls for an end to culls of the Mauritius Fruit Bat
The Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released a position statement respectfully appealing to the Government of Mauritius to halt any cull of the Endangered Mauritius Fruit Bat, Pteropus niger, and to seek effective non-lethal…
Story | 19 Dec, 2018
More than 1200 postcards from Lebanon and Egypt
Third article of the Children as Champions of Climate Change - stories from all around the Planet series
Story | 18 Dec, 2018
GrowGreen: Chinese cities grow and with it, the need for green
Blog by Claire Warmenbol. Worldwide out of the 47 megacities, China alone counts 17. These are cities with a population in excess of 10 million people. Today over half of the Chinese mainland population lives in cities. Towards 2030, China aims for 70% of its population, about 900 million people…
Story | 14 Dec, 2018
IUCN seeks whale conservation experts to advise on energy development impacts
IUCN seeks applications from qualified individuals to serve on its independent scientific and technical advisory panel to minimize impacts on western gray whales during offshore oil and gas development near Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.…
Story | 14 Dec, 2018
#NatureForAll – reaching out to key Chinese institutions
Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati, IUCN-CEC Regional Vice Chair for South and Southeastern Asia interacted with several senior officials of both the Government and academia on emerging issues of conservation during this recent visit to China as the Visitor of Minzu…
Story | 11 Dec, 2018
Dr Randall Reeves to continue leading advisory panel on industry development impacts
Dr Randall Reeves has been re-appointed by IUCN as Chair of the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel (WGWAP), which provides independent advice on the impacts of offshore oil and gas development on gray whales and their habitat. He plans to continue leading the…
Story | 10 Dec, 2018
Creative Thinking from the Children of Nigeria
Second article of the Children as Champions of Climate Change - stories from all around the Planet series. Students surprised project leaders with their openness and creativity.
Story | 05 Dec, 2018
#NatureForAll, Wellbeing for kids
The #NatureForAll CEC-WCPA campaign and the Children&Nature Network proposals have been implemented in Italy. A Pilot Project launched by the Ministry of Public Health promotes educational initiatives in Nature and in Protected Areas to improve children’s health and wellbeing and to…
Story | 03 Dec, 2018
Giant postcard with 125,000 cards exposed on Swiss glacier
Check out the first article of the Children as Champions of Climate Change - stories from all around the Planet series. More and more to come from different countries where children got engaged with Nature and took action by drawing attention to climate change, stay tuned!