All too often, natural resource projects are designed without regard for how local people’s needs and interests will be represented in decision-making bodies during planning and implementation. Even project designs that have built-in participatory mechanisms, such as community-based user groups…
Trat Province has become a hotspot for Integrated Coastal Management in Thailand. To coordinate efforts among various projects and organisations, Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) recently organised a workshop to take stock of available data and information. The data…
We share with all the Mediterranean Members and the strategic partners in the region, the main events in which the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation will participate or organise at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Conservation Congress that will be held in Hawai'i on 1-10 September 2016.
As governments and business struggle to reconcile conservation and economic goals, the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Conservation Congress will debate the first-ever global policy on biodiversity offsets -- a mechanism increasingly used to compensate for the residual negative impacts of development projects on…
In June 2016, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ organised an exposure visit for nine Myanmar government officials including four ministers from Mon State and Bago Region and one from the Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division in Nay Pyi Taw to the Gulf of Thailand. The purpose of the visit was to let these officials see…
It’s not just the final destination that makes a journey worthwhile, but everything we learn along the way.
Children, youth and adults (primary and secondary students, institutional and municipal authorities, and representatives of communities and local organizations) will meet at previously identified sites in Panama and Costa Rica to plant more than…
Mexico is progressing towards its goal of using REDD+ as a means to promote sustainable rural development, but improved coordination is still needed.
A Call for Proposals is now open for Solomon Islands and VanuatuÂ
The Red List of marine bony fishes of the Eastern Central Atlantic (ECA) is a review of the conservation status of all native marine bony fishes in ECA according to the global Categories and Criteria of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Red List of Threatened Species.