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World Heritage – A call for action and finance to implement the GBF
October 2024 - As the global conservation community gathers for the CBD COP16, IUCN puts a spotlight on the unrealised ...
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IUCN SSC Carnivorous Plant Specialist Group
Consists of a group of volunteers dedicated to the common goal of assisting in the conservation of all Genera of Carnivorous Plants. Robert Cantley was educated as a physicist and then later as an ...
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The segmented trapdoor spiders, an EDGE species
Tarantulas and the common-orb-weaver, represent two of the more recognizable suborders of spiders (mygalomorphs and araneomorphs respectively), but there is a third suborder that is basal to these two ...
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Nature-based Solutions and protected and conserved areas
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are seen as a response to many societal challenge. It is becoming increasingly obvious that protected and conserved areas (PCAs) are a major vehicle for NbS and essential ...
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The plastic pollution crisis
Plastics only began to be produced in large quantities following the second world war – but plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious threats humanity faces. By 2015, 60% of all ...
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Scaling the Peaks
Six country teams gathered in October 2022 to reflect on the implementation and achievements of Ecosystem-based adaptation on their respective mountain systems and communities. The learnings and ...
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Gender Equality: A Strategy for Conserving Coastal Biodiversity in Central America
IUCN, 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 ...
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IUCN supports participative mapping for communities in the Harrat Uwayrid Nature Reserve, Saudi Arabia
In addition to the Participatory 3D Model, youth were involved in the initiative through a parallel Youth Media and Storytelling workshop. Fifteen boys and eighteen girls between the age of 16 to 18 ...
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Más de 120 participantes de LATAM se dieron cita en el Primer Encuentro Regional de la SCF
Durante tres días se intercambiaron experiencias, conocimientos y perspectivas que enriquecieron el debate sobre la promoción de la inversión privada para el financiamiento de infraestructura ...
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Taking the measure of conservation
The IUCN Contributions for Nature platform shows how IUCN Members' conservation and restoration actions are helping to achieve global goals. This will be valuable in measuring progress towards the ...
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IUCN Leaders Forum 2024 closes with call to work across 'boundaries and borders' to secure change for nature
The IUCN Leaders Forum 2024 closed in Geneva, Switzerland today with a poignant call to work across “boundaries and borders… ...
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IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology closes major gap in our ability to measure the state of nature
As the world is set to adopt a landmark treaty to halt the loss of biodiversity later this year, implementing and measuring progress against specific goals of this agreement will soon become a focus.