March, 2018. During his first visit to the Headquarters of the Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC) located in San Jose, Costa Rica, the President of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, Dr. Zhang Xinsheng, stressed the…
Dr Nguyen Ba Thu, a long-serving Vietnamese champion for protected areas and nature conservation and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ supporter, sadly passed away on 13 March 2018. Dr Nguyen Ba Thu was the former Director of Cúc PhÆ°Æ¡ng National Park, Viet Nam’s first official protected area, and former Director of the Viet…
Nsumbu National Park is located across the districts of Mpulungu and Nsama in Zambia’s Northern Province and falls within the biodiverse Albertine Rift region of East-Central Africa, covering an area of approximately 2,020 km². Nsumbu NP hosts patches of rare and endangered Itigi-Sumbu thicket,…
CEESP News: Rainforest Foundation UK
A new report published in December 2017 by the Rainforest Foundation UK exposes the impacts of two national parks on local and indigenous communities in the Republic of Congo.
Local and indigenous communities living in and around Nouabale…
Suva, Fiji, 09 March 2018 (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) – Reminiscing the adventures of growing up around mangrove forests in Fiji, Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Peter Thompson, who is also serving as the UN Special Envoy for Oceans, shared opening remarks with participants of…
6 March 2018. Kingston, Jamaica -- The University of the West Indies (UWI) and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ (International Union of Conservation of Nature) Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, have renewed a five-year…
On 25 January 2018, the Albanian parliament decided to vote in favor of opening concession negotiation procedures for construction of a new airport close to the city of Vlora, near the village of Akërni, which is located within Vjose-Narte Protected Landscape (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Category V) in south-west…
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ is currently carrying out a feasibility study to assess whether the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Green List Sustainability Standard, a global benchmark for the effective management of protected and conserved areas, can be applied to the Natura 2000 network. In this interview,…
Representatives of all five PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet partner organisations (GIZ, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, UN Environment, GRID-Arendal, Rare) came together in Eschborn, Germany for the initiative’s second steering group meeting. The meeting was an opportunity to take stock of PANORAMA’s…
An Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Green List workshop was co-organised by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ PAPACO and the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Green List team in Kenya and held at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together key actors in conservation in Kenya including the Kenya Wildlife Service and IIED.Â