Gland, Switzerland, April 21, 2008 (IUCN) - IUCN is participating in the first-ever Asia-Pacific Forestry Week taking place from the 21st to the 26th of April 2008, in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The event is expected to be the largest and the most important forestry-related event this year in the South East Asia region, a region which has seen the largest decline in forest area worldwide. The event provides a unique opportunity for diverse stakeholders and high level forestry officials ...

WHAT’S HAPPENING: A Sustainable Tuna Roundtable to bring together the tuna fishing industry and the retail industry. The meeting, organized by IUCN and the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, will be used to try to get both industries to agree on a single set of standards to assess the sustainability of tuna catches.WHY IT’S HAPPENING: There are a growing number of organizations (NGOs, the fishing industry and retail industry) with different sustainability assessment methods, certification schemes, ranking guides and checklists. ...

Inclusive policies and an urgent action plan required to minimize the threats Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu Kashmir, 18 March, 2008 (IUCN) – A Seminar titled Climate Change: The Phenomenon and its Impacts was held on March 18, 2008 at the Neelum View Hotel, Muzaffarabad. Jointly organized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Pakistan’s AJK Programme, the purpose of the Seminar was to raise awareness about the issue with a ...

Today, IUCN is launching with WWF and Nokia a global initiative towards young people called connect2earth. ► project presentation ► press release www.connect2earth.org is a community website that will give young people a platform to share their ideas and concerns about environmental issues through their own videos, image or text. It is also a competition culminating in the presentation of the winner’s video, text or images to world leaders at IUCN's World Conservation Congress in Barcelona this October. connect2earth will allow us to ...

Gland, Switzerland, 20 February, 2008 (IUCN) – IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur distinction by the French Government on February 1, in recognition of the many years she has spent working for the environment.  During her long and distinguished career, Julia Marton-Lefèvre has directed many prestigious organizations, including the University ...