Story | 28 Jul, 2016
VIDEO: Designing gender-responsive forest landscape restoration projects in Brazil
Every day, in their roles as farmers, foresters and household providers, women use and manage natural resources, making them integral to conservation efforts. A pilot initiative led by IUCN in Brazil is finding ways to integrate their wealth of knowledge in forest landscape restoration (FLR)…
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
Engaged for Wildlife and People - Dr Bibhuti Lahkar nominated for Heritage Heroes Award
Dr Bibhuti Lahkar is a man engaged for wildlife and people. He understands that conserving threatened flora and fauna can only be achieved in the long-term if the local population is supportive and receives some benefit from the protection. Part of his work is now funded through IUCN Tiger…
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
IUCN was at the 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation
Since the St Petersburg tiger summit, the Tiger Range Countries meet regularly to report progress on tiger conservation. This is the chance for the world to have an estimate of the world wild tiger population. In April this year, IUCN brought a small delegation to New Delhi.
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
Follow the tiger at IUCN World Conservation Congress
Held every four years, IUCN World Conservation Congress brings together leaders from government, the public sector, non-governmental organizations, business, UN agencies and indigenous and grass-roots organizations to discuss and decide on solutions to the world’s most pressing environment and…
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
Reconnecting wildlife habitats - Can Htamanthi Become a Source Site for Tigers?
In the last hundred years, tiger habitat has been significantly fragmented and transformed into isolated patches of habitats. A particular site can hold breeding females and a viable population (source), while a neighbouring one might have been depleted by poaching (sink). The key in this case…
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
(Camera) Trapping tigers across borders
In the recently held 10th meeting of the Trans-Boundary Manas Conservation Area (TraMCA) between Indian and Bhutanese conservation comrades, D.P. Bankhwal of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Guwahati, said, “Tigers are akin to canaries in a coalmine - their populations are…
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
IUCN / KfW Tiger programme has started successfully the implementation phase
Being at the top of the food chain, tigers need sprawling habitats, adequate prey and an intact ecosystem for their survival. Protecting these habitats and supporting the sustainable socio-economic development of the local communities living in and adjacent to these habitats are the aims of the…
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
Increasing tigers – the ultimate measure of conservation success
In tiger conservation, tiger populations are the currency of conservation success. If tiger numbers are increasing, we are doing our job well, but if numbers are declining, we need to work to understand the reasons for decline, and try new interventions. Sounds simple enough, but how do we…
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
World Heritage Committee meeting to resume in October
The 40th session of the World Heritage Committee will continue from 24 to 26 October 2016 at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris. The session, which took place in July in Istanbul, Turkey, was suspended three days ahead of the planned schedule on 17 July.
Story | 27 Jul, 2016
Journey through the Bonn Challenge – event series at IUCN Congress
Join IUCN as we celebrate the milestones achieved by the Bonn Challenge and reflect on lessons learned at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in September 2016 in Honolulu, Hawai’i.