Democracy in Action
Next week, the IUCN World Conservation Congress will take place in Jeju, Korea. “So what?”, you may ask. We had Rio+20 earlier this year, there is a meeting of the Convention…
Next week, the IUCN World Conservation Congress will take place in Jeju, Korea. “So what?”, you may ask. We had Rio+20 earlier this year, there is a meeting of the Convention…
Last week, I read an article in the Guardian Weekly about rare earths in Greenland, and the impending pressure from mining and exploration. This made an impression on me for…
I was on the website of one of our members in the Netherlands, the mammal association (zoogdiervereniging), and they have very positive news about the fact that the status of…
We went for an early morning walk in the Parc Jura Vaudois this morning. What stunning landscape, and so close to where we live. The bedrock is limestone, and there…
Last week, I had a meeting with the European secretariat of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability in Freiburg, Germany (http://www.iclei-europe.org/) after a comfortable train ride from Gland, Switzerland, where the…
For a number of years, I have visited the island of Gozo in the Mediterranean, and I have become very attached to its culture, its landscape and its society. I…
Total CO2 emissions from the half million km2 of degraded peatland globally exceeds 2 Gtons. Restoration of this resource is therefore critical for both biodiversity conservation and carbon emissions reduction…
We are in the third year of the European Business and Biodiversity Platform (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/biodiversity/business/index_en.html), and had discussions a few months ago about the future of this initiative and a possible…
Cross-border nature conservation has been a tool to bring together parties with different political agendas. It is also an essential means to protect landscapes that cross political boundaries within the…
Protected areas are one of the best means of protecting critical ecosystems and biodiversity. IUCN prides itself as the world authority in this field, and its World Commission on Protected…
