In its efforts to mainstream human rights in the day-to-day operations of rangers in Southern Africa, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥â€™s SADC TFCA Financing Facility commissioned the first training session on Human Rights and Law Enforcement for its grant recipients in Lubombo TFCA, eSwatini.
The Connecting Practice project aims to define new methods and strategies to support Nature and Culture through engagement in the World Heritage Convention, which is the leading international instrument for conservation that brings together nature and culture.
Are you interested in helping conserve the world’s most outstanding natural places? Join the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Academy for a free online course to learn more about natural World Heritage sites and what makes them different from other types of protected areas.
The World Heritage Leadership is a capacity-building programme that integrates nature and culture through the promotion of place-based and people-centred approaches to World Heritage management. By taking a nature-culture integrated approach to the protection and management of heritage, the…
In March 2022, the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) decided to work towards an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ will engage in the negotiations providing science-based expertise and evidence to ensure the development of a robust instrument with…
The Conserving our sea of islands report provides the first comprehensive assessment of area-based conservation in the region. The 23 countries and territories that it covers are diverse but share a common identity and geography, as well as many other features such as extensive customary …
In this open letter, Antonio Troya, the Director of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, reflects on the progress made in the last 20 years in the Mediterranean region, besides outlining the current and future challenges faced by nature and human societies to prepare for a new…
In several Asian countries, bears are farmed for their bile, which is an ingredient in traditional medicine. In 2012, nine Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Members tabled a motion at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Conservation Congress to phase-out bear farms on the grounds that farms may harm bear conservation. The motion triggered…
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, with support from USAID, is implementing a conservation project in sites of high coastal biodiversity in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, with a focus on social inclusion, to strengthen community governance of natural resources in contexts free of gender-based violence.Â
Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment has renewed its support for World Heritage Leadership, a capacity-building programme jointly run by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of…