Story | 23 Jun, 2022
Developing new partnerships for protecting small-scale fishers' human rights
CEESP News: Elisa Morgera, Director, One Ocean Hub, and Professor of Global Environmental Law at University of Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow (UK) and CEESP member
The One Ocean Hub, a global research coalition, is co-developing partnerships at different scales, between fishers'…
Story | 23 Jun, 2022
Progressing gender equality in the fisheries sector
CEESP News: Dr. Sangeeta Mangubhai1 & Dr. Sarah Lawless2
Gender equality is critical for effective and equitable conservation and development outcomes in coastal countries. Commitments to gender equality have surged, yet the depth and effectiveness of these commitments are unclear. A…
Story | 23 Jun, 2022
Progress on Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Areas (CBSFA)
CEESP News: The authors of this article are members of the E Alu Pu Network the founding network of Kua'aina Ulu Auamo or KUA, an inaugural IUCN IPO Member. KUA's Executive Director Kevin Chang is a member of CEESP.
World Oceans Day in Hawai’i coincided this year with real progress on…
Story | 23 Jun, 2022
CEESP News: Vivienne Solís Rivera1 and Ivannia Ayales Cruz2
Maintaining the vitality of marine territories of life based on the governance (shared or community-based) should be a priority for marine conservation in the context of the GBF and the World Ocean Congress in Lisbon. We have…
Story | 21 Jun, 2022
International bycatch meeting - Bringing forward solutions for effective monitoring & reduction
From 4 to 6 October in Malaga (Spain), the “International Bycatch Meeting” will demonstrate the current state-of-the-art in addressing bycatch worldwide, with particular emphasis on the needs and challenges associated with the implementation of bycatch programmes in different seas and fisheries…
Story | 11 May, 2022
Exploring Kien Giang’s island clusters
As part of the IUCN-led USAID Mekong Delta Coastal Habitat Conservation project, IUCN and Kien Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural development (DARD) cooperated on a rapid assessment of three island clusters in the West Sea between the mainland…
Story | 08 Mar, 2022
The sub-regional meeting dedicated to the Alboran Sea, organised in Malaga by IUCN-Med, connected conservation organizations from both sides of the Mediterranean, with the aim of exchanging the latest data and findings on the conservation of marine biodiversity in the region and its relationship…
Press release | 06 Dec, 2021
All coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean at high risk of collapse within 50 years
Gland, Switzerland, 6 December 2021 (IUCN) - A new assessment of the coral reefs of the Western Indian Ocean shows that they are all at high risk of collapse within the next five decades. Ocean warming and overfishing were identified as the main threats.
Story | 01 Nov, 2021
Understanding the multiple benefits of area-based conservation
CEESP News: by Nigel Dudley and Sue Stolton, Equilibrium Research *
Under current proposals from the Convention on Biological Diversity, a target is likely to be set for 30% of the world’s land surface to be set aside into protected and conserved areas. Over 60 countries have pledged to…
Story | 28 Apr, 2021
Gender & fisheries: Equality vs equity
CEESP News: by Sangeeta Mangubhai, Wildlife Conservation Society *
Gender experts frequently talk about gender equality and gender equity, and although they sound familiar and are related terms, they have different meanings. Understanding these two terms is critical for a fair, just and…