Healthy, functioning, and resilient ecosystems lay the foundation for sustainable economic development, food and water security, disaster risk reduction and climate action. The impacts of climate change pose unique risks to densely populated urban areas, and as the share of the global population…
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Species Survival Commission Freshwater Fish Specialist Group and Freshwater Conservation Committee jointly with Global Organizations Urge Government to Prohibit Construction of Small Hydropower Projects Endangering Critically Important Rivers and Rare and Endemic Wildlife
CEESP News: byÌýKasandra-Zorica Ivanić, Sue Stolton, Carolina Figueroa Arango and Nigel Dudley
What do protected areas give back to local and more distant communities, if anything?
A new tool from the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Commission on Protected Areas helps us find out. The Protected Areas…
An appreciation of Georgina Mace, who passed away on 19th September 2020.ÌýColleague and friend, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ CommissionÌýmember Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland reflects on Georgina’s legacy inÌýthe conservation movement.
Consultancy services in the frame of ADAPT: Nature-based Solutions for resilient societies in the Western Balkans
The 21stÌýmeeting of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ India National Committee was held online on 27thÌýJuly 2020 under the chairmanship of Shri. R. P. Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change along with the presence ofÌýDr.ÌýDhananjai Mohan, Director, Wildlife Institute of India, Member…
The Ministry of Climate Change has launched the Consortium to undertake Third Party Monitoring for its flagship Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme (TBTTP). The Government of Pakistan has mandated the Consortium which consists of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, FAO and WWF to conduct the Third Party Monitoring and…
More than 560 companies with combined revenues of US$ 4 trillion today urged governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss in this decade.
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By Samraansh Sharma - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Institute of Zoology (Zoological Society of London) recently published "Living Planet Report 2020 - Bending the Curve of Biodiversity Loss".ÌýThe Report emphasizes the urgencyÌý to rebalance our relationship with nature and the planet.…
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how vulnerable we are to emerging diseases, and exposed the lack of wildlife health oversight, surveillance and management across the world. Our disturbance of the natural world and growing human and domestic animal populations are increasing contact with wild…