Today, a rapidly increasing number of people are flocking to the coasts 鈥 to build their homes, to spend their holidays or to conduct business activities. Meanwhile, climate change is turning coasts into increasingly hazardous living environments. Human conversion of coastal ecosystems is鈥
A workshop on the Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) was organized for the first time in Lebanon on聽January聽20th,聽2017. The aim of this聽meeting was to provide a short training on the RLE methodology and to evaluate the feasibility to conduct a Red List of forest ecosystems assessment in Lebanon in鈥
After a year of strategic聽cooperation聽between the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) Thailand and聽香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播聽Thailand, a meeting was held on 26 December, 2016 at the DMCR office in Bangkok to discuss the progress of the collaboration and provide聽updates on聽香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播-led聽marine and coastal鈥
On February 2nd the world聽celebrates its聽wetlands 鈥 complex ecosystems that provide a wide variety of services and benefits for people and聽nature.聽 Wetlands such as estuaries, mangroves, marshes, and swamps play, beyond their biological role, a key part in helping people cope with disasters. Yet鈥
For the first time, a total of 490 habitats across 35 countries in Europe have been assessed to determine their risk of collapse. The European Red List of Habitats, initiated by the European Commission, benefited from the knowledge and expertise of over 300 experts who reviewed the current鈥
This document provides information on how implementing forest landscape restoration (FLR) at the jurisdictional and national level can offer countries a way to recover degraded forests and bring back key forest ecosystem functionalities in a way that will increase biodiversity levels in a鈥
Climate mitigation and adaptation are a country鈥檚 most pressing actions in the face of a looming global climate crisis 鈥搘ith catastrophic consequences already occurring in many coastal regions. Now, the restoration of mangrove forests and other coastal systems is emerging as a solution聽鈥 serving鈥
A National Wetland Management Committee was successfully established at the "Pre-Consultation and Forming a Wetlands Management Committee Workshop鈥, jointly organised by HELVETAS, Network Activities Group (NAG), Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) and 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 on 23 November鈥
A new report explores the results of Viet Nam鈥檚 policies on protecting and restoring forests, with a special focus on the country鈥檚 efforts to implement sustainable forestry models.聽
The workshop on 鈥淩estoring Myanmar鈥檚 Degraded and Deforested Landscapes鈥 was jointly organised by the Forest Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC), 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC).聽The鈥