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China launches new guidelines for coastal ecosystems to enhance disaster risk reduction
27.12.2021In 2018, the highest decision-making body on financial and economic issues in China mandated competent authorities to implement coastal conservation and restoration projects through the use of Nature-based Solutions to keep resilient from the risks the...
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Nature-based Solutions for ecological conservation and restoration explored at CBD COP15 in China
22.12.2021Kunming, China (IUCN) – China’s Ministry of Natural Resources, together with IUCN, organised an event, “Nature-based Solutions for Ecological Conservation and Restoration,” as part of the Ecological Civilisation Forum during the Convention on Biological...
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Nature-based Solutions in the Western Balkans, working lunch
Ida Reuterswärd, First Secretary Programme Officer, Development Cooperation Section, Team Serbia, Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden in Belgrade / Sandra Nedeljkovic, Deputy Director, Public Investment Management Office / Boris Erg, Director IUCN ECARO
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Nature-based Solutions as a response to climate change in Western Balkans
14.12.2021In cooperation with the Public Investment Management Office of the Government of the Republic of Serbia a working lunch for key partners in Serbia was organised to discuss the application of Nature-based Solutions aimed at mitigating the...
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All coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean are at risk of collapsing in the next 50 years, according to a study by IUCN and CORDIO East Africa that assesses the region's reefs using the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems framework.
Photo: Jerker Tamerlander, IUCN
All coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean at high risk of collapse within 50 years
06.12.2021Gland, Switzerland, 6 December 2021 (IUCN) - A new assessment of the coral reefs of the Western Indian Ocean shows that they are all at high risk of collapse within the next five decades. Ocean warming and overfishing were identified as the main threats...
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As world leaders in Glasgow commit to restoration of terrestrial ecosystems, IUCN launches the first of its kind typology of restoration actions
11.11.2021IUCN spurs restoration action and monitoring by launching a typology of restoration interventions for ALL terrestrial ecosystem types including coasts and inland waters. The IUCN Restoration Intervention Typology for Terrestrial Ecosystems (RITTE), will be...
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Vjosë river in Albania
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Request for Proposals – consulting opportunities, Albania
02.11.2021IUCN Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Centrals Asia (ECARO) seeks one (1) international consultant specialised in hydrological engineering and 1 consulting company or team of consultants specialised in biodiversity, GIS, socio-economic and gender in...
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Black Sea tursiops (bottlenose) dolphin Photo: Elena Gladilina
Preferred places of three threatened dolphin and porpoise species, only found in the Black Sea, named as Important Marine Mammal Areas
29.10.2021This International Black Sea Action Day, 31st October, 11 habitats of Red-List Endangered Black Sea harbour porpoises and bottlenose dolphins as well as Vulnerable Black Sea common dolphins have been formally awarded Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA)...
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Durmitor, Montenegro
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The Bonn Challenge/ECCA30 initiative welcomes three new pledges from the region
12.10.2021Three new regional Bonn Challenge pledges were announced today at the Ministerial Meeting on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and the ECCA30/Bonn Challenge in Eastern and South-East Europe organised by FAO and UNECE, in cooperation with the International...
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Restoring ecosystems part-and-parcel of IUCN Congress
01.10.2021During the Expo of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Restoration pavilion devoted over half of its programme to restoration work as part of the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. Hosting events that drew from an...
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A microcosm of natural solutions: The Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Restoration Pavilion at IUCN Congress
23.09.2021Deep in the exhibition hall of the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, the focus at the Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem Restoration pavilion was on the potential of NbS in solving societal challenges. This was highlighted by the...
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