IUCN’s National, Regional and Interregional Committees can be very different in nature. Some of the Member Committees work to jointly implement projects, whereas others are predominantly vehicles for ...
Chilean Patagonia is today recognised as one of the greatest refuges of wild nature in the world. In recent decades, with the creation of national parks and marine reserves, the state has placed huge ...
When Kenya’s first post-independence leader, Jomo Kenyatta, gazetted what is now known as Nairobi National Park for the exclusive use by wildlife, he had this to say: “The natural resources of this ...
Over 6,000 animals, fungi and plants at risk of extinction are threatened by climate change and severe weather on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, across every region of the world. The Red ...
Mangrove forests are vital ecosystems that provide a wide range of benefits, from protecting coastlines against erosion and storm surges to serving as nurseries for marine life. They are also ...
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 ...
Competence frameworks are widely used in many professional sectors, helping to develop capacity by defining and recognising the required skills, knowledge and personal attributes. Registers of ...
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 ...
Município de Mariana, estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil, 16h20 do dia 5 de novembro de 2015. Nesse lugar, nesse instante, rompeu-se a Barragem de Fundão, que comportava mais de 50 milhões de m 3 de ...
Na quarta-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2023, foi realizado o evento de conclusão do projeto Amazônia 2.0 no Hotel Tallanes, na cidade de Lima, Peru, com a presença de parceiros, aliados, cooperantes e ...