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
by Gabriel Van Duinen,聽Young WCPA Member, Geographer
Pulau Tioman is home to tropical rainforests, intertidal zone habitats and coral reefs which house a variety of critically endangered species. Rapid overdevelopment and tourism have put significant stress on Tioman鈥檚 fragile ecosystems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
PANORAMA is a partnership initiative to facilitate learning from success in conservation. It promotes examples of inspiring solutions that showcase how nature conservation can benefit society. PANORAMA enables the wider application of such solutions through cross-sectoral global learning and鈥
The value and role of mangroves, saltmarshes and seagrasses for climate change mitigation was established back in 2009 by reports by 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 and UNEP to focus attention on addressing a critical gap in national carbon accounting and management. Despite the acknowledgement of the importance of these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
The five years long project 鈥淚nstitutional Support to the management of Protected Areas in Albania鈥 has come to its end, significantly contributing to the progress that has been made in the field of nature protection in Albania.
People and forests are connected. Study after study confirms this linkage, and it is known that hundreds of millions of rural people around the world either derive a portion of their livelihoods from the forest or are deeply dependant on forests in some way. Unlike measuring benefits from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
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播) is reviewing nine World Heritage nominations with natural criteria, including two extensions and seven new sites, which are proposed for 2017. The 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 World Heritage Panel gathered in December in Gland, Switzerland to consider the鈥