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Using Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Enhance Livelihoods and Improve Resilience in Mountain Ecosystems
In transboundary mountain ecosystems across Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, Colombia, Kenya, and Uganda, IUCN and partners have worked from 2017 - 2022 to implement ecosystem-based adaptation approaches to ...
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Biodiversity Standards and Indicators
Gathering extensive and in-depth data is a crucial step to identifying pressing threats, gaining updated insight on the area of distribution for species and habitats, understanding ecosystem ...
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IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology
The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is a comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features. This new typology helps identify the ...
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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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Five things to watch out for at COP16
With two years already passed since the agreement of the historic Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework, and 2030 only five years away, the stakes are high at this year's COP16 in Cali, ...
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Indigenous Women’s Insights – Stewarding the Earth
In November, all along the busy maze of pavilion buildings in Sharm el Sheik, an estimated 45,000 people snaked along corridors hoping to inform crucial discussions surrounding climate policy at the ...
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Lake Toba and the Batak legacy: harmonising indigenous wisdom with conservation
A Batak indigenous woman is planting crops in her field near my father’s village. We chat. The lady, who happens to be a distant aunt, has lived in the Tapanuli region with her extended family near ...
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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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Kawésqar Wæs - Chilean Patagonia's greatest wilderness is a home
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 ...
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Over 40% of coral species face extinction – IUCN Red List
Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...
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Q&A: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Corals Assessment
What is the difference between warm-water reef-building corals and cold-water corals? Warm-water reef-building corals are the colourful corals that build and grow on reefs speckled with fishes, crabs, ...
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Sports for Nature
Sports have a unique opportunity to address the nature crisis. IUCN has been working with key partners on developing the Sports for Nature Initiative to contribute to global efforts to halt and ...