Story | 04 Jun, 2019
Blazing the Trail: Professor Charles Okidi's Enduring Legacy in the Development of Environmental Law
WCEL Member Charles Okidi was honored at the University of Nairobi book launch for "Blazing the Trail: Professor Charles Okidi's Enduring Legacy in the Development of Environmental Law" on 19 March, 2019.
Story | 03 Jun, 2019
South Africa fulfils Promise of Sydney for marine conservation
Five years after making a commitment at the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, South Africa had fulfilled its promise by establishing 20 new marine protected areas.
Story | 03 Jun, 2019
Translation of IUCN publications on protected areas into Asian languages
Under the auspices of Asia Protected Areas Partnership (APAP), and with the generous financial support of the Korea National Park Service (KNPS), a number of IUCN publications on protected areas are currently being translated into selected Asian languages.
Grey literature | 2019
Governance of the Ganges River Basin
The Ganges River Basin is shared by four countries – Bangladesh, China, India and Nepal – and though it lacks a regional basin-level cooperation agreement to facilitate its joint management and address common challenges such as floods and climate change, there are four bilateral agreements on…
Story | 31 May, 2019
Madagascar: pilot for the development of a Regional Resource Hub
The Regional Resource Hub (RRH) is the regionally tailored name for the BIOPAMA regional observatory for Eastern and Southern Africa hosted by RCMRD, the Regional Centre for Mapping Resources for Development. The Regional Resource Hub covers the 24 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa and…
Story | 31 May, 2019
ICCAs for biological and cultural diversity
Indigenous peoples and local communities around the world protect and care for their collective territories, lands and waters as a matter of survival, health and wellbeing. These territories and areas, known as ICCAs, are cradles of biological and cultural diversity and crucial for all life on…
Story | 31 May, 2019
Green List retreat in Kenya: a bottom up brainstorming
The results of the brainstorming session of the Kenyan Green List retreat are all included in the Green List 2019-2021 roadmap for Kenya. The roadmap can certainly be helpful to other established or future Green List countries and will contribute to build an EAGL network aiming at sharing…
Story | 31 May, 2019
New Canadian Other Effective Conservation Measure: Canadian Forces Base Shilo
Canada is recognizing 23,061 hectares of a military training base in western Canada as an Other Effective area-based Conservation Measure (OECM). The military training base in the mixed-grass prairie ecosystem of south-central Manitoba is home to 17 at-risk species and a myriad of other wildlife…
Story | 31 May, 2019
Financing and resourcing protected and conserved areas: next BIOPAMA webinar
The next BIOPAMA Eastern and Southern Africa webinar is on Wednesday 5 June at 12 noon (GMT+2) and will be on Financing and Resourcing Protected and Conserved Areas.
Story | 29 May, 2019
A capacity-building workshop was held in the Shouf Biosphere Reserve in Lebanon (Green Listed in 2018) for 7 Green List candidate site managers and representatives of protected areas administrations in the Maghreb countries of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The workshop was organised by the IUCN…