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CEESP News: by Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir *

Back in 2011, extremely warm water temperatures persisting over thousands of kilometres along the coastline of Western Australia caused coral bleaching, mass die-out of marine life and wiped out kelp forests. Since then, this phenomenon of abnormally high-water temperatures has been recorded in…

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) has given its commitment to support the 'Great Blue Wall Initiative,' a regionally connected network to develop a regenerative blue economy.

Without marine plankton our planet would be a different place. Future projections and impact metrics of plankton diversity around the world are now able to be seen graphically through the MAPMAKER tool. MAPMAKER's new visualisation tools allow data-driven decision-making on marine biodiversity…

The Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) have joined forces, combining their mutually beneficial strengths to scale up reef conservation. 

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Global Marine and Polar Programme's Joao Sousa is a co-author on this paper which addresses the problem of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG). Being purposely designed to catch aquatic species, it is one of the most…

The new EU Forest Strategy has hit the forest headlines over the summer and in a timely online debate, policymakers from the EU Commission met with experts representing forest owners and managers, civil society and national policymakers to discuss…

World Trade Organisation Deputy Director-General, Jean-Marie Paugam, gave a fresh perspective on ocean conservation by explaining the very close relationship between the international trade system represented by the WTO and the issue of ocean preservation, something many conservationists and the…

This think piece presents recommendations of the Science Task Force (STF) of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) and comprised of leading subject experts as specific actions to be undertaken by public and private stakeholders…

Today, to coincide with the World Conservation Congress in Marseille, the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ European office released its new work plan for the upcoming 4 years.