Story | 28 Apr, 2011
Expanding IUCN’s science engagement for better conservation
IUCN welcomes distinguished scientists from around the world and a wide variety of disciplines to the new IUCN Science Advisory Board.
Story | 21 Apr, 2011
Global forestry institutions call for more community-based forest management
The leading international organizations working to protect and manage the world’s forests are calling for governments across the globe to increase communities’ role in forest management. Doing so could contribute to lifting close to a billion people out of poverty, as well as improve the health…
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
The Wetland Carbon Partnership continues for a 3rd Year
Danone, IUCN and Ramsar have agreed to a third year of the their Wetland Carbon Partnership. The partnership aims to find and invest in large scale mangrove restoration projects which deliver CDM-certified carbon credits to Danone as well as benefits to local communities.
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
For two issues (CEESP September 2010 and December 2010), we have raised attention to how an international network of environmental organizations and the forest industry have been shaping forest policy in the Canadian boreal region. We specifically focused on the Far North Act in Ontario and…
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
Linking and Geotagging Pastoralist and Mobile Production Systems
By Dario Novellino and Valentina De Marchi
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
Authored by Dr. Dan Robinson of the University of New South Wales and Kabir Bavikatte.
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
World Heritage, Local Communities and Human Rights
By Gonzalo Oviedo, Tatjana Puschkarsky and Nigel Crawhall
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
La Décima Convención de las Partes (COP-10) sobre Diversidad Biológica (CDB) se ha realizado en Nagoya, Japón en el periodo Oct. 18-29, 2010. Importantes compromisos han adquirido las 193 Partes ó Naciones que integran a la CDB, incluyendo a Honduras.
Story | 14 Apr, 2011
Environmental Justice & the Survival of a People: Uranium Mining & the Oglala Lakota People
This publication is intended to provide awareness about the Lakota worldview of water, about In Situ Leach/Recovery Uranium mining and its effects, about work to challenge the corporations from continuing to mine uranium and to build new uranium mining developments.
Story | 13 Apr, 2011
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Mr. James Anaya, is currently carrying out a study on the rights of indigenous peoples in relation to natural resource extraction and development projects affecting them.