On 18 February 2021, the Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI) held its Fourth Annual Meeting online, with representatives from governments, academia, NGOs, and Ramsar International Organization Partners (IOPs). Attendees shared their…
By Eeshan Chaturvedi - As water scarcity plagues the planet exponentially, it is imperative for countries to come to a global consensus and address the issues of international environmental leakage. A concerted effort towards homogenous legal frameworks and policies is the need of the hour to…
Easy to use and readily accessible technological solutions that provide satellite data to non-Earth Observation experts can serve as a powerful tool for environmental compliance monitoring and law enforcement. To inspire discussion on the potential of such innovative tools, the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥â€¦
More than 10,000 youths from over 140 countries took part in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) first-ever virtual ‘One Nature, One Future’ Global Youth Summit that concluded yesterday with the delivery of the Pacific…
Present declines in Asian horseshoe crabs are primarily attributed to overharvesting and habitat loss. The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ SSC Horseshoe Crab Specialist Group (HCSG) jointly with Beibu Gulf University, China, has established an observation network to bridge explicit baseline gaps in Asian horseshoe crab…
A new report by the Rio Doce Panel analyses the watershed's water quality and biodiversity situation and provides pathways towards its restoration.
Could the Rule of Law be the solution?
In line with the African black rhinoceros, the African forest elephant is now listed as Critically Endangered on the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Red List of Threatened Species. The significant population decline over the past decades is not only caused by the loss of…
In 2020, with the financial support from the Coca Cola Foundation, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Viet Nam has supported upstream communities in Mekong Delta to pilot some flood-based-livelihood models in support of water retention and adapt to climate change. These livelihood models are implemented in combination with…
The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Programme on African Protected Areas & Conservation is launching a new MOOC on Marine protected areas (MPAs). This new course will complement other courses on protected areas already available, such as Protected areas management in Africa, Ecological…