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Finance deal an important but limited step towards common goals for a better future
As the UN climate talks closed in Baku, Azerbaijan, IUCN recognised the new collective quantified goal agreed on climate ...
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BIOPAMA supports special online training on Protected Areas Management in Africa
In September and October of 2024, BIOPAMA supported forty-one grantees in Eastern and Southern Africa Region and three ...
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IUCN co-hosts Nature and Biodiversity Day with COP29 Presidency at global climate change talks in Azerbaijan
The International Union for Conservation of Nature together with the Presidency of the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to ...
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IUCN statement to UN Climate Change Conference 2024
IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar delivered IUCN's statement to the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan ...
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IUCN's efforts for climate resilience in the Pacific Islands
IUCN has become the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it, including addressing the challenges of climate change, advocating for the integration ...
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The plastic pollution crisis
Plastics only began to be produced in large quantities following the second world war – but plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious threats humanity faces. By 2015, 60% of all ...
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Lake Toba and the Batak legacy: harmonising indigenous wisdom with conservation
A Batak indigenous woman is planting crops in her field near my father’s village. We chat. The lady, who happens to be a distant aunt, has lived in the Tapanuli region with her extended family near ...
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Global OECMs Practice: Insights from China and International Case Studies Contribute to Common Pathways for Definition
Currently, global protected areas cover only 16.42% of land and inland waters and 8.33% of coastal and marine areas (source: https://www.protectedplanet.net/en ...
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Inspiring places: why are national parks so important to the people of Kenya?
When Kenya’s first post-independence leader, Jomo Kenyatta, gazetted what is now known as Nairobi National Park for the exclusive use by wildlife, he had this to say: “The natural resources of this ...
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Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for the Talaud Bear Cuscus
The Talaud Bear Cuscus (Ailurops melanotis) is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and protected under Indonesian law. The species’ geographic distribution is ...
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Global OECMs Practice: Insights from China and International Case Studies Contribute to Common Pathways for Definition
From 21st October to 1st November this year, the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was held in Cali, Colombia. The conference, ...
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IUCN Pakistan launches Mangroves Assessment Report at COP29
IUCN Pakistan launched the Mangroves Assessment Report on Pakistan in a ceremony presided by the Chief Minister of Sindh province, and other Ministerial and foreign delegates at the 29th Conference of ...