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Newsletter contents at a glance
- IUCN World Conservation Congress to take place from 3 to 11 September 2021 in Marseille, France
- International Day for Biological Diversity 2021 - 'We’re part of the solution'
- World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve
- New global partnership to elevate marine protected areas as tool in climate response
- Inspiring People: Sathish Sundaram, Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park (India)
- The underwater crown jewel of the Red Sea - Ras Mohamed (Egypt)
- Tanzania shows how the Multiple Land Use Model can be used for sustainable landscape conservation
- Mexico's government management schemes help restore mangroves on communal and private land
- IUCN Issue Brief: Nature-based Recovery
- We have a chance to prevent pandemics — will we?
- Les aires marines éducatives de Polynésie française
- Delivering the best information for effective conservation: BIOPAMA at the International Day of Biological Diversity
- Data collection and improved visitor facilities for enhancing management effectiveness
- BIOPAMA assists Pacific island countries fulfil management effectiveness in their protected area reporting obligations
- Online Certificate in Protected Area Conservation: 17 June 2021
- The IUCN Green List team is taking part in the Action Labs of The Ocean Race Summit Europe
- 2021 Pathfinder Award for innovation in nature conservation - nominations now open until 15 July!
- People of Parks: Share your story, inspire others
- Two biodiversity sites in Japan and Georgia recommended for the World Heritage List
- Youth speak up for nature at Global Youth Summit
- PARKS 27.1 (May 2021) now available
- Earth Day 2021: 'Restore Our Earth'
- 2021 IUCN WCPA International Ranger Award Winners
- Bruno H. Schubert Prize: The Guardians of the Rainforest include WCPA heroes
- The Guardian: It’s inspiring hope and change – but what is the IUCN Green List?
- Ten outstanding sites earn coveted IUCN Green List status
- Chile and IUCN to start a historic process for the country’s Protected Areas
- Restauración de arrecifes de coral a través de acreción mineral en viveros de coral
- Belarus shows the way to restore temperate peatlands
- Making the case for nature and human health: WHO will launch a landmark report this month
- Climate scientists: nature's destruction makes humans more vulnerable to disease
- Listening to Macaronesian seabirds
- A new phoenix: Critical conservation achievement for the endemic Tahiti Monarch, BEST spurs an amazing species recovery
- Protecting and restoring key habitats in Madagascar – contributing to global action to restore the Earth
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Reflections on Earth Day 2021 with Richmond Vale Academy
- New Marine Protected Areas MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) now open
- Great Green Wetlands – a call for more action on wetland and watershed conservation opportunities in the ‘Great Green Wall’ Initiative
- Forest landscape restoration becomes the latest focus of PANORAMA
- The wetlands around Iran's Lake Urmia, one of the most important habitats for breeding of white-headed ducks
- Vital Sites 2021: Catch-up on past events
- 2021 Fred Packard Award: nine outstanding champions for protected and conserved areas
- From coconuts to conservation
- Construcción participativa e intercultural del Plan Maestro de la Reserva Nacional Matsés
- Mangrove restoration for sustainable fishery in Palk Bay, India
- IUCN WCPA COVID-19 Protected Areas Task Force launches a dedicated website
- Restoring our World after COVID-19: the vital role of protected and conserved areas
- Observing forests, preserving uniqueness
- Achieving good governance in the Van Long Wetland
- Human Rights Depend on a Healthy Biosphere
- Next Gen Solutions: African Innovation in financing for nature conservation
- Global recognition for PANORAMA
- MOOC Marine Protected Areas, the final countdown
- First training for IUCN Green List mentors in Malaysia
- National Parks Day - Republic of Korea
- News on African protected areas n°150
- American Covenant: National Parks, Their Promise, and Our Nation's Future
- PARKS Special Issue: COVID-19 fallout undermining nature conservation efforts
- Five projects in Uganda funded to address conservation emergencies throughout COVID-19 and other threats
- Benin and Togo: Resilient livelihoods: flood and drought protection through sustainable use of natural resources
- Senegal: Addressing resource degradation to enhance climate change resilience
- IUCN Green List’s COMPASS platform gets a new look and feel
- PANORAMA’s Live Story Slam at the Global Youth Summit
- PANORAMA partners with the Open Knowledge Foundation
- IUCN PAPACO ambassador meetings in Benin help mainstream MOOCs on conservation
- Make the glaciers great again
- Parks Journal 27 (Special Issue on COVID-19)
- Cultural and spiritual significance of nature
- Funding opportunity: National Geographic COVID-19 Fund
- Nature's Future, Our Future - The World Speaks
- IUCN Green List featured in French strategy to protect 30% of natural areas by 2030
- U.S.A. aims to conserve 30% of US land and ocean waters by 2030
- Wetlands receive funding for actions on the ground
- REDPARQUES Declaration, from national commitments to international interventions
- Designation of Astola Island, Pakistan’s first marine protected area
- Hin Nam No National Park nominated to join IUCN Green List
- Egypt: IUCN Green List tour in the lands of the pyramids
- The EAGL Zambia established and fully trained
- PANORAMA partnership reflects on best practices shared in a very active 2020
- Enrol now for the NEW MOOC Session: 18 January to 13 June 2021
- IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3: a conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
- Lancement en français des lignes directrices de l’UICN sur la conservation de la connectivité par le biais des corridors écologiques
- “We nourish what we love”: Managing and governing the cultural and spiritual significance of protected and conserved areas
- Parks Stewardship Forum - 'Nature and Health: Emerging Knowledge Informs New Policy Directions'
- Conservation Conversations group issues policy recommendations
- U.S. National Park Service’s (NPS) International Program bulletin, July-December 2020
- Egypt’s Wadi El-Hitan nature reserve praised for good practice by IUCN
- Quebec meets UN Convention’s Terrestrial Protected Area Target of 17%
- UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha becomes one of the world's biggest sanctuaries for wildlife
- 843 nominations received from across 43 countries for the new International Ranger Awards
- IUCN Green List helps Huangshan Scenic Area in integrated management of three UNESCO designations
- Closing the gap between strategic and operational planning for protected areas
- Mainstreaming the recovery of marine fisheries and ecosystems through collective action and science
- New IUCN Global Gender Working Group to focus on gender mainstreaming in protected and conserved areas through the IUCN Green List
- BIOPAMA knowledge products for management and governance
- BIOPAMA direct support to protected and conserved areas
- Aires protégées et transhumances en Afrique centrale
- The Vemööre Declaration for the Pacific addresses the biodiversity crisis
- New #NatureForAll trivia game celebrates WCPA 60th anniversary
- PAPACO and PANORAMA partnership
- Climate change and wildfires: lessons from Australia’s Blue Mountains
- Chakay - the Mexican MPA experience of sustainable ecolabeling and traceability
- Biodiversity conservation in a post-COVID-19 economy
- The Impact of COVID-19 on the Management of European Protected Areas and Policy Implications
- Evolving the narrative for protecting a rapidly changing ocean, post‐COVID‐19
- New publication on a globally significant tropical marsupial
- New edition of the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT-4) released
- Protecting and effectively managing blue carbon ecosystems to realise the full value to society - a sea of opportunities
- Climate change now top threat to natural World Heritage – IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3
- Protecting nature is vital to escape 'era of pandemics'
- Nominations open until 31 December for the inaugural International Ranger Awards
- Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in India wins the inaugural TX2 Award after doubling its tiger population
- Beyond borders: How Bhutan and India are saving the tiger
- Lewa Conservancy: Sustainable nature conservation in Kenya (video feature)
- Waste management in an Indonesian tourism hotspot: innovation and education towards zero waste
- Restoration of wetlands and barrier islands for storm protection in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
- Achieving peace, truth, reconciliation, and justice in Colombian protected areas
- Gender is the key: effective gender mainstreaming unlocks ‘Green List’ success in Protected and Conserved Areas worldwide
- Bhutan gets the IUCN Green List going
- The IUCN Green List, a key ally of local communities in protected areas facing the challenge of COVID-19
- Tech for Nature: supporting better conservation outcomes in protected and conserved areas
- Launch of the new Nature-Culture Thematic Community
- PANORAMA expands to promote Sustainable Urban Development and Resilience
- A knowledge hub for 24 African countries
- Financing available for governance and management assessments
- Embedding human rights in conservation
- Dailus Laurence - Winner of the 2020 African Ranger Award
- The first-ever International Ranger Awards are coming soon
- With Chingaza National Park, Colombia becomes the country of Latin America with the most protected areas on the IUCN Green List
- Combatiendo los incendios forestales en el Volcán Tacaná
- Gobernanza participativa y buenas prácticas para la conservación del APA de Serra do Guararu
- IUCN Green List gears up to scale up
- 'Worrying sign': Rollback of protection puts marine park status at risk
- Management effectiveness in the spotlight
- National Trust of Fiji joins the BIOPAMA grantees’ family
- Enhanced capacity to manage the Solomon Islands’ protected areas
- The BEST initiative featured at the EU Outermost Regions Forum 2020
- Small grant scheme in action: results of the BEST call for proposals 2020
- 103 Countries on mooc-conservation.org
- Experts call for inclusive and regenerative tourism to build back stronger post-COVID-19
- Explore protected areas through sounds with 'Sounds of Your Park'
- Explore the world's protected and conserved areas through the new and improved Protected Planet
- Nations fall short on biodiversity despite protected area growth – IUCN co-authored study
- 'Protected Area Governance and Management' now available in French
- IUCN ECARO’s 'A Voice for Nature' #23
- Comoé National Park rangers coaching
- Watch the Kenton Miller Award Ceremony 2020
- In Memoriam: Dr Graeme L. Worboys, dedicated WCPA Commission member and Packard Award winner
- Protected areas in Colombia, Vietnam and French Guiana enter IUCN Green List of best-managed sites on the planet
- Forest landscape restoration in the Shouf: a comprehensive solution
- The Côte Bleue Marine Park: a success story in co-construction with small scale fisheries for 35 years
- Solutions for well-being and sustainable development: Results of the Third Latin America and the Caribbean Protected Areas Congress (CAPLAC III)
- Lista Verde de Áreas Protegidas y Conservadas: soluciones inspiradoras desde la Amazonía
- Launch of the East Africa learning series on communities combatting Illegal Wildlife Trade
- First BIOPAMA-funded project starts in Senegal
- Two new biological reserves in Réunion
- PAPACO MOOCs kick off with 4700 pre-enrolled students
- Invasive alien species may be a bigger threat to natural World Heritage than previously thought
- #NatureForAll shares success stories on PANORAMA
- IUCN Congress postponed - New dates will be announced in due course
- Kenton R. Miller Award 2020: Pioneering conservationists shine as beacons of hope from Mozambique and Lebanon
- Video Feature: Kenton R. Miller Award 2020 Winner - Nizar Youssef Hani
- Video Feature: Kenton R. Miller Award 2020 Winner - Pedro Estêvão Muagura
- Obituary - Francisco Javier Valverde Esparza: An ocean hero dedicated to vaquita conservation succumbs to COVID-19
- Nakai Nam Theun National Park, Lao PDR takes its next steps towards the IUCN Green List
- Participatory management of wildlife in protected areas: the experience of the Red Deer census in Foreste Casentinesi National Park, Italy
- Participación comunitaria en el diseño del Programa de Manejo del Parque Nacional Bahía de Loreto, México
- Six million Euros made available for conservation action to counter COVID-19 impacts
- In the fight against biodiversity loss, connectivity is key
- Strengthening indigenous rights and leadership in the face of global challenges - COVID-19, climate change and environmental degradation
- Virtually enhancing Marshall Islands Protected Areas with GIS and site-mapping skills
- Plongée dans les Ecosystèmes Coralliens Mésophotiques (ECM)
- MOOC Conservation registrations open
- The Discovery Zone: a nature-based resource for schools to include in their curriculum during COVID-19
- WCPA publishes a new guide to ecosystem services in protected areas
- Vital Sites: The Journey to Marseille continues
- Uzbekistan makes a big step forward towards achieving global biodiversity targets
- 31 July 2020 is World Ranger Day
- World Ranger Day 2020: Launch of a new alliance to support professionalisation of rangers in protected and conserved areas across the world
- Launch of the Tiger Conservation Awards
- India adopts CA|TS standards across all 50 tiger reserves
- Inspiring people: Erasto Fitz Maxwell Robertson
- IUCN mourns the death of John Foster CBE
- Record 876 flamingo chicks born during 2020 breeding season at Al Wathba Wetland Reserve
- Conservation and restoration of Moose population in Hanma National Nature Reserve
- Protection of nesting beaches to prevent extinction of green turtles on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Africa’s protected areas operations and programmes
- BIOPAMA Rapid Response Grants for COVID-19: Call for proposals remains open until the end of 2020
- New funding opportunity: pre-announcement of the upcoming BEST 2.0+ call for proposals
- Conservation MOOC session closes with +13,000 students
- Pioneering efforts come to fruition as Global Guidelines for Connectivity Conservation released
- Launch of the first-ever Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions
- Vital Sites: The Journey to Marseille has begun
- Rescue, Recover, Rebuild Stronger: IUCN and global conservation experts call for bold response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- IUCN welcomes Pakistan’s leadership in incorporating nature conservation in its Green Stimulus package
- 'My land is now owned by lions': The Maasai farmers offering Kenya's wildlife a lifeline
- Colombia’s Malpelo marine sanctuary - the latest addition to the IUCN Green List
- Ensuring the regeneration of the Atlas Cedar through innovative incentives for livestock owners in Morocco
- Co-management bridging Biodiversity Conservation and Fishing Rights in Fiji
- The Vital Sites Journey so far: Online launch event 'Closing the Gap' on financing protected areas
- The Vital Sites Journey so far: BEST-PANORAMA Webinar: Dialogue on Marine Solutions in the Pacific
- BEST: 18 new projects in the European Outermost Regions
- Sharing Green List experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean
- First online certificate on Protected Area Conservation
- #NatureForAll: The sounds of nature
- Version 2.0 of the Diagnostic tool for transboundary conservation planners released
- "Natural World Heritage in Africa" - now available in French
- FAO study on the linkages between protected areas and the conservation of biodiversity for food and agriculture
- BIOPAMA Rapid Response Grants for COVID-19: Call for proposals remains open until the end of 2020
- Vital Sites Webinar Series on Protected Area Management Effectiveness
- PARKS Journal: Special Editorial on how protected and conserved areas around the world are being impacted by COVID-19
- A message from the IUCN WCPA - Conserving nature in a time of crisis: Protected Areas and COVID-19
- Tributes to José Rafael García Acosta
- Réunion National Park, a World Heritage Site hosting new discoveries
- Community-based aquaculture development and marine protection in Zanzibar
- Australia's 'Park Walks' programme
- New Zealand approves an investment of over NZ $1 billion in the environment by employing 11,000 people displaced by COVID-19
- Tandi Spencer-Smith, the Director of the Australian Committee for IUCN reflects on how healthy ecosystems are essential to the health and wellbeing of people
- COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants 2020 aim at increasing the resilience of protected areas and local communities’ livelihoods facing the risks and difficulties of the global COVID-19 pandemic in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
- Sustainable finance and funding of protected areas in the Caribbean: a conversation
- Protected areas need better and more diversified funding, says new IUCN study
- Celebrating International Day for Biological Diversity 2020: From the drylands of Sudan to the gardens of Quito – our solutions are in nature!
- Inclusive conservation solutions for protected areas in a multifunctional landscape - the Dutch case
- IUCN report shines light on Africa’s natural wonders and identifies potential new World Heritage sites
- The Padhri Pioneers: effective community wildlife managers transforming area-based conservation in Pakistan
- Amarakaeri, an indigenous IUCN Green List pioneer, seeks solidarity and support in the Amazon
- Launch of certificate on protected areas conservation
- African Solutions: Gnanhouizounmè Sacred Forest villages ride out COVID-19 in Benin
- Natural World Heritage in Africa: Progress and Prospects
- Closing the gap : financing and resourcing of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa
- IUCN statement on the attack in Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Keeping a sense of community amidst COVID-19
- Dr. Nirmal Jivan Shah, CEO of Nature Seychelles, shares his opinion on COVID-19 and its link to conservation
- A new wave of IUCN Green List commitments to help COVID recovery for rural and indigenous communities in the Amazon
- Conservation and human welfare in an atoll community in the Marshall Islands
- Exploring Asia's potential on OECMs (other effective area-based conservation measures)
- A participatory engagement process leads to the renaissance of the Mangai Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Saint Lucia equipped with a protected area management effectiveness (PAME) assessment tool
- Reviving the knowledge and use of creole medicinal plants in Martinique
- PANORAMA webinar: Inclusive conservation solutions for protected areas in a multifunctional landscape - the Dutch case
- What works, works! Measuring the quality and effectiveness of protected and conserved areas
- World Heritage Committee meeting postponed
- One session, 10,000 students and counting in Papaco’s latest MOOC
- COVID-19 International Park Managers Expert Panel
- IUCN’s Protected Area Governance and Management book achieves 100,000 downloads
- News on African Protected Areas No.140
- Frontier Diaries: nature in a time of COVID-19
- #NatureForAll introduces the Discovery Zone
- On International Women's Day, meet meet Liliane Parany, a passionate conservationist from Madagascar.
- Pioneering conservation models in the Mara ecosystem
- How a privately protected area contributes to conservation outcomes in Brazil
- Do as the Romans do: dodging the virus to create a better world? The Director of the IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme weighs in on COVID-19
- Consultations on human rights and the environment
- A Regional Resource Hub for 24 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Enhanced GIS and mapping skills in Vanuatu and Samoa
- PAPACO MOOCs: a success story from Benin
- News on African Protected Areas No.139
- Meet Dimitris Margaritoulis, who can be considered a protected areas pioneer for the Greek Islands
- Parc national des Ecrins in France provides a good example of stakeholder engagement for partnerships
- Collective action and science for the recovery of marine fisheries and ecosystems in Mexico
- PANORAMA in Numbers – a review of 2019: 95000 website visits, solutions from 117 countries, visitors from 175 countries
- Human rights as an enabling condition in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
- The Pacific Resource Hub for protected and conserved areas (PIPAP) achieves an important milestone
- BIOPAMA continues to develop the capacity of protected area stakeholders, in 20 African countries
- Updates from BIOPAMA's grant-making facility
- News on African Protected Areas No.138
- Papaco MOOCs kick-off with 5000 students
- WILD11 mobilises leaders from around the world and all sectors of society to protect and expand wilderness
- Two exciting opportunities for contributing to efforts that are related to PANORAMA
- Graeme Worboys, conservationist, receives the Order of Australia, one of the country's highest honours
- Defying the fires, three Australian protected areas are once again among the world’s best managed
- Seasonal protected Areas for turtle conservation in island states: lessons from Seychelles
- The untapped power of local protected areas, in South America
- SAGE: A brand new tool for governance and equity assessment
- Deadline approaching! BIOPAMA call for proposals for small technical grants
- Les succès de l’évaluation de l’efficacité de gestion des aires protégées au Gabon
- New report identifies potential World Heritage sites in Central Asia
- Schools part of the solution to managing French Polynesia's vast marine protected areas
- UK film launch promotes movement to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030
- The need for oceanic protected areas, as presented by Aardman Animation
- IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS
- Marine Protected Areas that move with the biodiversity they are designed to protect
- News on African Protected Areas
- How can you help wildlife in protected areas burnt during Australia's worst ever bushfires?
- All that you wanted to know about Capacity Development, but were too embarrassed to ask
- And more articles and publications...
- In memory of Ghanimat Azhdari: a true force of nature
- Pedro Rosabal Gonzalez leaves IUCN
- The EU Overseas: size, diversity, and how giant needs are BEST addressed (Video)
- New to the newsletter - the BEST initiative
- The gathering of seaweed is interesting, as well as important (Video)
- This happens when schools and protected areas cooperate
- BIOPAMA call for proposals for small technical grants
- Papua New Guinea Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) training kicks off
- A protected planet, starting with the Caribbean (Video)
- La République Démocratique du Congo s’approprie de l’outil intégré pour l’évaluation des aires protégées (IMET)
- BIOPAMA Green List intro webinar responds to Eastern and Southern African requests (Video)
- Outils BIOPAMA pour la gestion de l'information pour de meilleures décisions (Vidéo)
- BIOPAMA's Dr Sue Snyman presents at the Global Wildlife Program annual conference
- Peru creates new conservation area to protect glaciers from extractive operations
- First issue of Parks Stewardship Forum: Interdisciplinary Journal of Place-Based Conservation
- The Guardian highlights Madagascar cases for the need of greater quality in protected areas
- Six conservation success stories of 2019
- Remembering Norman Myers, biodiversity pioneer
- German Ministry for the Environment on-board with PANORAMA
- Find it all in one place by using the new “Resources" section in PANORAMA
- World Heritage and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
- It's all connected. At a Madagascar meeting, BIOPAMA, Governance, and the Green List come together for the region's national parks
- BIOPAMA small technical grants, now open
- Every worker needs good tools. This is one of BIOPAMA's goals
- CNN video segment showcases Abu Dhabi Green List site (3:04)
- Nine new EAGL members hatch in Republic of Korea
- The IUCN Green List gets down to earth and sea in Malaysia
- Sierra Leone’s “Green Diamond”, the flowering fruit of a public-private partnership
- How to pay for Water Ecosystem Services at Kikuyu Escarpment Forest, Kenya
- 9000 students studying conservation online via MOOC. Growth in commitment continues
- Revised IUCN guidelines demystify and clarify protected area categories for marine areas
- IUCN publishes new guidance on "recognising, reporting and supporting ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’"
- Not Jurassic Park, just practical application: synthetic biology and ex-situ conservation (NAPA 136)
- Lima Declaration closes CAPLAC III, attended by political and conservation leaders
- Dr Robert Wallace, innovator in biodiversity and conservation, wins the 2019 Kenton Miller Award
- Recognition and reward for five outstanding conservationists, at Lima CAPLAC III
- Celsa Ortiz, the first female ranger in the Yanesha Communal Reserve, Peru
- On Lima's doorstep, a Peru Sea Lion colony turnaround, and new Green List commitments
- The Yanesha Communal Reserve, Peru: how engagement offered by the Green List can help secure commitment for protected areas
- The Global Support Initiative to Indigenous and Community-Conserved Territories and Areas shows its strength in Lima
- Governance makes its mark on Seychelles Locally Managed Marine Areas project
- High Five! PANORAMA reaches 555 conservation solutions, available to environmentalists everywhere
- Celebrating Latin American and Caribbean Commitments to Green List Success
- IUCN planning and evaluation frameworks guide significant species conservation on Australian indigenous lands
- Promoting knowledge and actions for a protected planet in the Caribbean
- IUCN and RCMRD formalise their partnership for the BIOPAMA Regional Resource Hub
- New technologies in protected areas
- World Heritage as an indicator of protected areas’ success: the case of Latin America and the Caribbean
- In Saudi Arabia, one woman’s lifelong effort grows another generation’s leaders through open-air education
- Youssouph Diedhiou, quiet achiever, makes a protected area a vital community neighbour
- Securing the population of a critically endangered species of deer
- Listen to your grandmother: recovering traditional practices are key to long term conservation in Colombia
- Wildlife Institute of India welcomes PANORAMA workshop, then proposes eight solutions
- Mr Cheikh Tidiane Kane, of WAEMU, talks on partnership with BIOPAMA and its results
- Championing conservation outcomes, the Green List expands in West Asia
- And: the IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS, what's hot off the press, plus events and surveys to get yourself involved.
- The passing of Professor Roberto Gambino, an innovator and reference point for parks and planning
- Urban parks' value to their cities given a dollar figure by London authorities, and it's huge
- The importance in every sense that lions and "lionscapes" have to Africa's nations
- The Amazon jungle may breathe more freely with the latest Green List projects set to move in the area
- Australian World Heritage site finds involving volunteers a vital cog in its conservation activities
- Latest OECM meeting on German island of Vilm
- Bold steps for Saudi Wildlife
- Bottom-up engagement of fisher folks
- Dynamic governance for conservation in Ethiopia
- Innovative protected area financing and resourcing solutions webinar
- 2018 a year in images
- protected area data and information webinar
- the IUCN Green List journey continues in Italy
- France cérémonie de la ligne verte
- Léonidas Nzigitimpa, a conservation hero from Burundi
- Mindful engineering builds sustainable tourism value
- Wrapping up an exciting year for PANORAMA
- IUCN reviews nine new World Heritage nominations for 2019
- Open source information system for the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific protected areas
- China seeks protected areas quality and good performance
- WCPA and Coalition WILD Mentorship programme
- 5th International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas.
- Conserved Areas in the spotlight in Egypt
- IUCN lists 15 new sites as world’s best protected areas
- Meet the winners of the 2018 Pathfinder Award!
- Ras Mohammed National Park; PANORAMA: Welcoming UNDP and promoting business engagement solutions
- Fostering coordination and collaboration on protected areas
- IUCN Issues Brief on natural World Heritage
- Focus on indigenous and conserved community areas
- Protected Planet Report 2018
- PARKS 24.2
- Guidelines on Privately Protected Areas
- Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas
- News on African Protected Areas
- Celebrating Protected Area heroes in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Dr Kathy MacKinnon wins top conservation prize
- OASIIS – building social capital in protected areas
- Communities spearheading marine conservation
- Going for Green in Egypt
- Conversation with an ASI Green List reviewer
- Tuvalu moving towards achieving global biodiversity targets on protected areas
- Governance quality and diversity for conserving the Peruvian Amazon
- Marine Protected Areas: global standards for success
- Call for Expressions of Interest to host the BIOPAMA Regional Resource Hub for Biodiversity and Protected Areas in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Celebrate the launch of the new #NatureForAll publication
- Hugh Synge
- Biodiversity Tax Incentives For South Africa's Protected Area Network
- The Cook Islands consolidates its protected area information
- BIOPAMA’s second phase officially launched in Central Africa
- 5 years of Blue Solutions!
- Seven protected areas in the Maghreb region commit to the IUCN Green List
- Henry Cleere, a pillar of the World Heritage Convention
- Habitat Stepping Stones
- Mountain Protected Areas Update
- Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services
- Madison Pearl Edwards
- Brazil's largest Privately Protected Area
- Transboundary coordinated natural development and national park extension
- Framework for adaptive management in Kenya inspired by the IUCN Green List
- BIOPAMA: Decision-making support tools for the East African Community
- World Heritage: New IUCN report on tools for assessing the benefits of key natural areas
- Private Natural Heritage Reserves, a Brazilian success story
- #NatureForAll: Sun Child Eco Club for the Preservation of Wildlife
- Hot off the Press: PARKS Journal 24 Special Issue on OECMs June 2018
- Ramsar report on indigenous peoples' participation in managing wetlands
- World Ranger Day
- Taghi Farvar - our collective memory
- New nature-culture sites on the World Heritage List
- Increased coastal resilience and social development in Guyana
- PANORAMA is growing - organically!
- The members of the California MPA EAGL announced
- Important steps for enhanced protected area management effectiveness
- IUCN's key takeaways from the World Heritage Committee Meeting
- 'Other effective area-based conservation measures': updates
- Youth for Wildlife Conservation
- Contribute: Pathfinder Award, IUCN Green List Fair Financing Survey
- Crowdfunding campaign to honor fallen rangers of Virunga
- World Heritage Committe meeting
- Pathfinder Award
- The Journey of the Cook Islands Marae Moana
- Success factors for conservation in the Rio Negro Basin
- Protected Area solution case studies receive makeover
- Testing phase of LIFE Green List for the Natura 2000 project
- Caribbean Green List webinar
- The Pacific convenes key regional protected areas event
- BIOPAMA launched in Eastern Africa
- Diversity is key to good governance
- Buiblitz Canada 150 - Results of Canada's "Nature Selfie"
- IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020
- INSPIRING PEOPLE: Mohammed Zaarour
- INSPIRING PLACES: Wadi Al-Quff
- INSPIRING SOLUTIONS: A model for stakeholder engagement in a national system of MPAs
- PANORAMA: Inspiring stories from European protected areas
- BIOPAMA: Management effectiveness: BIOPAMA and the IUCN Green List join forces in the Caribbean
- BIOPAMA: Southern African protected area actors set BIOPAMA's priorities for the region
- BIOPAMA: Global conference highlights the role of data management
- WORLD HERITAGE: IUCN recommends listing two indigenous peoples’ territories
- WORLD HERITAGE: Belize reef recovers while Lake Turkana faces dam threat
- NATURE FOR ALL: Success Story: Forest Watcher, Google Earth Outreach
- GOVERNANCE: Supporting and strengthening ICCAs in Tanzania
- GREEN LIST: The Swiss EAGL has landed
- GREEN LIST: Call for experts to join California's MPA Network EAGL
- INSPIRING PEOPLE: Philippe Bouché
- INSPIRING PLACES: The wonders of Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Lebanon
- INSPIRING SOLUTIONS: Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) for improved protected area management in Viet Nam
- PANORAMA Webinar: Solutions from natural World Heritage sites
- Call for European solutions
- IUCN Green List: ‘Wildlife Insights’ – real-time data for conservation decision-making
- IUCN launches Green List for Natura 2000 stakeholder consultation
- The IUCN Green List logo
- Green List bulletin - April 2018
- BIOPAMA: How data tells powerful stories
- WORLD HERITAGE: Call for papers for nature-culture symposium
- BIOPAMA: 15 Caribbean countries to benefit from partnership for people and biodiversity
- #NatureForAll: Kishoka YOUTH Organization
- CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: E-learning course on integrated land use planning
- Developing effective capacity for North African PAs
- POLICY: Space for Nature Symposium: what's next?
- INSPIRING PEOPLE: Dr Nguyen Ba Thu
- INSPIRING PLACES: Bosque Pehuén, private, voluntary protection in a Chilean forest
- INSPIRING SOLUTIONS: Improving relationships between local communities and Saadani NP management
- PANORAMA and WORLD HERITAGE: Webinar: Solutions from natural World Heritage sites
- IUCN Green List: The IUCN Green List in the news
- WORLD HERITAGE: IUCN welcomes World Rowing pledge to not damage World Heritage
- BIOPAMA: 15 Caribbean countries to benefit from partnership for people and biodiversity
- #NatureForAll: Success Story: WilderQuest
- BLUE SOLUTIONS: Sharing and creating success stories: the Blue Solutions Fair in Thailand
- LAND USE PLANNING: Zambia endorses its first ever climate change framework and action plan for a protected area
- GOVERNANCE: We Rise Together: Report of the Indigenous Circle of Experts
- IUCN 2017 annual report: now available in French and Spanish
- INSPIRING PLACES: Azerbaijan to create first MPA in the Caspian Sea
- INSPIRING SOLUTIONS: Conflict resolution strategy for Kahuzi-Biega NP, DRC
- Health and well-being; Securing Indo-Burma's wetlands and communities
- PANORAMA: Exciting times ahead for Solutions for a Healthy Planet
- BIOPAMA: IUCN-SPREP partnership for protected and conserved areas in the Pacific
- IUCN Green List: Protected area governance, equity and the Green List in Kenya,
- #NatureForAll: Success Story - Students On Ice Foundation
- GOVERNANCE: Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) - achieving Target 11 in Canada through reconciliation
- INSPIRING PEOPLE: Ivane Kupradze, a Georgian hero
- INSPIRING PLACES: Sonoma County’s new approach to the State Parks System
- INSPIRING SOLUTIONS: African Eurasian Flyway partnership for migratory birds
- IUCN Green List: Georgia goes Green List, January Bulletin
- WORLD HERITAGE: IUCN reviews eight World Heritage nominations for 2018
- #NatureForAll: Comca’ac Indigenous Community and Climate Change
- CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: MOOCs and protected areas capacity building: where we stand
- GOVERNANCE: Protected area governance in Georgia; Non-state protected area governance in Kenya
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