Story | 17 Nov, 2016
Morocco climate summit looks to the ocean for solutions
Conserving ocean ecosystems can play an important role in combatting climate change – and one that is increasingly being recognised, writes IUCN’s Dorothee Herr from the COP22 climate summit in Marrakech.
Story | 16 Nov, 2016
10th Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots held in China
The 10th Cross-Straits Workshop on Forest Dynamics Plots, hosted by the Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences (BC-CAS) and co-organised by the Ecological Society of Beijing, took place on 14 October. Funded by CAS, the event had over 170 participants, including five from Taiwan.…
Story | 15 Nov, 2016
EUROPARC Conference, Parc Jura Vaudois, Switzerland, 19 October, 2016
Story | 14 Nov, 2016
IUCN launches online resource on forest landscape restoration to support climate action
Today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched InfoFLR, an online portal with in-depth information on forest landscape restoration. InfoFLR will also house results from IUCN’s new project, the Bonn Challenge Barometer of Progress – a tool to monitor the implementation…
Story | 11 Nov, 2016
Fostering stakeholder dialogues to catalyse forest landscapes in Indonesia
IUCN’s Adriana Vidal and Chetan Kumar report from a panel discussion titled Multi-stakeholders Participatory Approach – Evidence from Forest Based Landscape at the Indonesia Pavilion during UNFCCC COP22 discussions in Marrakesh, Morocco. This panel examined results from South Sumatra where land…
Story | 11 Nov, 2016
Marine Protected Areas and climate change report
New IUCN report looks at how Marine Protected Areas can help combat climate change
Story | 10 Nov, 2016
Tackling climate change through forest ecosystems in and around India
IUCN joined the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) to discuss ecosystems and climate change at COP22 in Marrakech.
Story | 10 Nov, 2016
This week at COP22, IUCN joined a panel discussion on implementing the Paris Agreement, organised as part of Forest Action Day and focused on how the sustainable management of forests would help countries achieve their targets.
Story | 09 Nov, 2016
Restoring Myanmar’s degraded and deforested landscapes through Forest Landscape Restoration
IUCN, the Forest Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) and the Nature Conservancy (TNC) are jointly organising a workshop aimed at supporting Myanmar’s efforts in restoring its degraded and deforested landscapes.
Story | 07 Nov, 2016
Antarctic Ocean breakthrough: Ross Sea to become world's largest marine protection area
The Ross Sea, considered by many scientists as the last intact marine ecosystem on the planet, is the first protected area in Antarctica, and home to most of the world’s penguins and many species of whale.