Dan Laffoley, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ WCPA Marine Vice Chair, is stepping down after sixteen years of dedicated service to the World Commission on Protected Areas and to ocean conservation in general.  Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ GMPP would like to thank Dan for his remarkable contribution to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥â€™s mission and congratulate him on…
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ ECARO is seeking to contract two qualified and experienced candidates: Nature-based Solutions Trainers - one international and one local from the Western Balkans - to serve within the ADAPT project: Nature-based Solutions for resilient…
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ welcomes IPBES-8 plenary decision to approve the scoping reports of the ‘nexus’ and ‘transformative change’ assessments, and encourages the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ constituency to engage actively with the assessments process.
The Global Marine and Polar Programme and partners will be presenting a number of key events at the Ocean and Islands Pavilion, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Conservation Congress 2021, summarised here. See you there physically or virtually!Â
The increasing rate of infection of African swine fever (ASF) among domestic and wild pigs in the Asia-Pacific region has prompted the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ SSC), and…
At the next UN Biodiversity Summit in Spring 2022, governments are preparing to adopt a new global framework for managing nature through 2030. It will guide actions worldwide to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people en route to living in harmony with nature by 2050.…
25 de agosto en en Lanjarón (Museo de la Miel) - 27 de agosto en NÃjar (entrada Playa de San José). En el marco del proyecto LIFE Adaptamed, en colaboración con los ayuntamientos de NÃjar, Lanjarón y el Museo de la Miel de Granada, UICN organiza dos talleres participativos, coordinados por la…
The Útila spiny-tailed iguana, Ctenosaura bakeri (Stejneger, 1901), is a Critically Endangered iguana endemic to the island of Útila, in the Bay Islands archipelago of Honduras. The species occurs almost exclusively in the highly dynamic mangrove habitat on Útila (Gutsche, 2005), and is…
Between 2010 and 2020, the expansion of protected areas was biased toward locations that were remote and less suitable for agriculture, rather than areas of importance for species and ecosystems. As momentum to protect 30% of the planet’s surface by 2030 builds, Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are…