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Launch of SUSTAIN Pro
24.02.2022Transitioning to sustainable food systems is vital to staying within planetary boundaries, feeding a growing population and combatting climate change. Today IUCN launched SUSTAIN Pro, a 10-year initiative aimed at addressing livelihood inequality,...
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Woman holding sea cucumber, Zanzibar
Photo: Raphaela Legouvello
Aquaculture and Nature-based Solutions: new report
24.02.2022A new report from the AquaCoCo project works to identify synergies between sustainable development of coastal communities, aquaculture, and marine and coastal conservation. It examines the emerging concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS)...
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The Buna, Velipoje Protected Landscape, Albania
Photo: IUCN/Arber Xhaferaj
Safeguarding the wetlands in the Buna delta
02.02.2022To celebrate the 2022 World Wetlands Day, the Living Buna project partners release two videos portraying the efforts of the local community to safeguard the wetlands in the Buna River delta in Albania.
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Symposium participants
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Symposium on Peatlands in Lao PDR
27.01.2022Over the course of two days during 21 and 22 January 2022, the MONRE Vice Minister Chanthaneth Boualapha presided over Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s (Lao PDR) first ever Symposium on Peatlands, held in Viengkham Districts, Vientiane Province....
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Photo: ©IUCN/Sandeep Sengupta
Twelve days in Glasgow: Impressions of a first time Climate COP experience
14.12.2021Blog by Claire Warmenbol. Exactly one month ago the COP26 hammer was gaveled. These are my impressions from that climate conference - my first - which I found it to be like no other, both in terms of diversity and calibre of participants as well as in...
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Photo: Shaun Wolfe / Ocean Image Bank
The Blue Carbon Policy Project is operational
09.12.2021Striving to make international policies coherent and aligned, to accelerate coastal ecosystem conservation.
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16% of the world's damselfly and dragonfly species are threatened with extinction, including Africocypha varicolor, a species found only in two streams on the Moyabi-Madzay plateau in Gabon.
Photo: André Günther
Dragonflies threatened as wetlands around the world disappear - IUCN Red List
09.12.2021Gland, Switzerland, 9 December 2021 (IUCN) – The destruction of wetlands is driving the decline of dragonflies worldwide, according to the first global assessment of these species in today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Their decline is...
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Sous bassin du Logone : la gestion des conflits liés à l’exploitation des ressources naturelles en question
01.12.2021Les conflits liés à l’accès aux ressources naturelles dans le sous bassin du Logone (l’un des principaux affluents du Bassin du Lac Tchad) se sont exacerbés avec les aléas climatiques, et l’insécurité qui sévit dans la région renforce de nouvelles pressions...
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Photo: © D. Saruchera
3 rivers, 2 countries, 1 vision
16.11.2021The Buzi, Pungwe and Save rivers (BuPuSa) flow through Zimbabwe and Mozambique, representing opportunities for sharing benefits, but also possible risks and water insecurity in the case of a lack of cooperation. A common vision is crucial to address present...
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Photo: Eugene Delacroix - public domain
The Sebou river: assessment of a North African treasure
06.11.2021Rivers are the lifelines of nature, carrying water and nutrients to all parts of the world. They provide us with clean drinking water and food, and are home to some of the most diverse and threatened wildlife in the world. In the light of the World Rivers Day...
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