Story | 17 Jan, 2018
An economist's view of forest landscape restoration
The Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology has proven effective for countries in planning their restoration actions. A large part of this process consists of comparing the costs and benefits of different restoration options, the consideration of the carbon balance and the analysis of…
Story | 15 Jan, 2018
IUCN Council Expresses Support for WCEL's Work on the Global Pact for the Environment
The IUCN Council has officially welcomed the initiative of WCEL to contribute to drafting and promoting the Global Pact for the Environment for eventual adoption by the United Nations General Assembly.
Story | 14 Jan, 2018
Meeting of the WCEL Ethics Specialist Group
A meeting of the WCEL Ethics Specialist Group was held in September coinciding with the launch of the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA). The Specialist Group seeks to advance applied, actionable ethics in environmental law, and is made up of experts from across disciplines…
Story | 13 Jan, 2018
The Ecological Law and Governance Association was launched on October 13, 2017 at the University of Siena (Italy). The founding document for the Association is the Oslo Manifesto, created at a 2016 workshop of the Ethics Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.
Story | 20 Dec, 2017
Third update in 2017 of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is announced in Tokyo, Japan
IUCN revealed the conservation status of Japanese and global species at a press conference in Tokyo on 5th December, 2017 to a full house of Japanese and international media correspondents. Many of the new assessments have been possible thanks to a strategic five-year partnership between IUCN…
Story | 20 Dec, 2017
IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, informed key decisions to help combat illegal trade in wildlife at the 69th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The meeting was held in Geneva,…
Story | 19 Dec, 2017
IUCN launches first Bonn Challenge Barometer report highlighting restoration progress
19 December 2017— The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released the Barometer Spotlight Report 2017 that details the progress Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador, Rwanda and the United States are making in bringing degraded and deforested landscapes into restoration. It is the first…
Story | 18 Dec, 2017
Conservationist Tony Whitten, who was the Founding Chair of the IUCN SSC Specialist Group on cave invertebrates, was tragically killed in a cycling accident on November 29 2017. Friend and colleague, and member of the IUCN Species Survival Commision (SSC) Steering Committee, Elizabeth Bennett…
Story | 14 Dec, 2017
IUCN advocates that key international climate change mitigation targets called NDCs, in order to be strengthened, should be translated into robust, ambitious and implementable policy instruments to bridge the global emissions gap and enhance the adaptive capacity of social and environmental…
Story | 13 Dec, 2017
Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas: Guidelines for Design and Management
The IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and Big Ocean are proud to announce the latest addition in the IUCN WCPA Best Practice Protected Areas Guidelines Series: Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas: Guidelines for Design and Management.