Story | 21 Mar, 2017
On a rescue mission, helping injured and sick wildlife
Institute for Nature Conservation of Vojvodina Province (Serbia) is legally authorised organization managing strictly protected and protected species in the Province. This complex task very often involves day-to-day care for numerous animals, following the reports of citizens finding them in…
Story | 17 Mar, 2017
Restoring the connection between forests and human health
Forests play a crucial role in supporting our mental and physical health, yet this is often overlooked within health strategies, education programmes, and in everyday human lifestyles. In the 2017 Spring Issue of REVOLVE Magazine, Chantal van Ham and Helen Klimmek from the IUCN European Regional…
Story | 08 Mar, 2017
Empowering women in water management - International Women's Day 2017
IUCN is committed to gender equality. To support International Women's Day, the Water Programme compiled some of their most recent efforts to empower women in decisions and actions for sustainable water management.
Story | 07 Mar, 2017
Finnish Nature League’s Wolf Ambassadors Win Biodiversity Award 2015-2016
The Wolf Ambassadors of the Finnish Nature League - Luonto-Liitto won the Biodiversity Award 2015-2016 of the IUCN National Committee of Finland. The Wolf Ambassadors were awarded on 7 February 2017 in Helsinki.
Story | 21 Feb, 2017
Developing capacities on the Ecosystem Services Assessment
The second regional training ’Principles of Ecosystem Services Assessment for Policy Impacts’ was held beginning of February 2017, gathering more than thirty governmental officials, experts, researchers and civil society representatives from SEE region in National Park Fruska gora in Serbia.
Press release | 09 Feb, 2017
Intensive agriculture and wildfires threaten over a quarter of Europe’s grasshoppers and crickets
Over a quarter of European grasshopper, cricket and bush cricket species are being driven to extinction by unsustainable agricultural practices and the growing frequency of wildfires in Europe, a new IUCN report has found.
Story | 03 Feb, 2017
European Commission kicks off the debate on the Future of European Agriculture
The European Commission launched yesterday a public consultation on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which initiates an attempt for its “modernisation and simplification”, and aims to maximise its contribution to the Commission's priorities and to the Sustainable Development…
Story | 26 Jan, 2017
World Wetlands Day: Strengthening resilience and collaboration to reduce disaster risk
On February 2nd the world celebrates its wetlands – complex ecosystems that provide a wide variety of services and benefits for people and nature. Wetlands such as estuaries, mangroves, marshes, and swamps play, beyond their biological role, a key part in helping people cope with disasters. Yet…
Story | 26 Jan, 2017
IUCN European Work Programme 2017-2020: signed, sealed and ready for implementation
The IUCN European Work Programme 2017-2020 outlines the areas of work IUCN's European region will focus on over the next four years and is the product of extensive consultation and discussion with IUCN's European Members and experts. It follows the same structure and subresults as the IUCN…
Story | 25 Jan, 2017
The five years long project “Institutional Support to the management of Protected Areas in Albania” has come to its end, significantly contributing to the progress that has been made in the field of nature protection in Albania.