Story | 12 Nov, 2012
A tribute to Warren Waetford from IUCN Director General, Julia Marton-Lefèvre
We are stunned and deeply saddened by Warren Waetford’s tragic death. He joined the Environmental Law Centre (ELC) as Legal Officer only very recently, in September of this year, and got off to an exciting and fast-moving start through participating in the World Conservation Congress in Jeju,…
Story | 12 Nov, 2012
Protected Areas Benefits Assessment Tool
The Protected Areas Benefits Assessment Tool (PA-BAT) is designed to fill an important gap in the toolbox of protected area agencies and conservation institutions, by providing a methodology to collate and build information about the overall benefits from protected areas.
Story | 12 Nov, 2012
Safety net : Protected areas and poverty reduction
Argument for Protection Series No 4
Story | 12 Nov, 2012
Food Stores: Using protected areas to secure crop genetic diversity
Arguments for Protection series No 3
Author(s): Sue Stolton, Nigel Maxted, Brian Ford-Lloyd, Shelagh Kell and Nigel Dudley
Story | 12 Nov, 2012
Running Pure: The importance of forest protected areas to drinking water
Arguments for Protection No 1
Nigel Dudley and Sue Stolton with contributions from 12 others
Story | 12 Nov, 2012
Arguments for Protection No 2
A WWF/ARC publication with special focus on the links between faiths and the world’s growing protected areas network
Press release | 19 Oct, 2012
UN Biodiversity talks move forward but nature needs more
Hyderabad, India, 20 October 2012 – Despite good progress towards achieving the 2020 targets to halt the loss of biodiversity, efforts to conserve nature must be urgently scaled up if we want to meet the 2020 deadline to save all life on earth - says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of…
Story | 18 Oct, 2012
The Convention on Biological Diversity brings focus to the remote ocean
Last week the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Hyderabad, India (8-19 October) took an important step for the global ocean commons, the largest habitat for life on Earth. The 193 Parties to the Convention agreed to send key scientific information to the…
Story | 17 Oct, 2012
Hyderabad hopes for a protected planet
Protected areas both on land and in the sea are a hot topic here at the Biodiversity talks in Hyderabad. We ask Trevor Sandwith, Head of IUCN’s Global Protected Areas Programme, to explain what they are and why they are so important.
Press release | 17 Oct, 2012
Madagascar’s palms near extinction
Hyderabad, India – Eighty three percent of Madagascar’s palms are threatened with extinction, putting the livelihoods of local people at risk – according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ released today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).…