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Protected areas, wetlands and drylands – UN biodiversity summit
By Pablo Manzano, Global Coordinator, World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism. Writing from the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Hyderabad, India. The third day of the conference...
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Hyderabad fever
By Ewa Magiera, IUCN Media and Communications Officer. Writing from the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Hyderabad, India The days are short here at the nature summit in Hyderabad and...
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The Livelihoods Day at the CBD COP 11, India, Hyderabad: solutions are brewing
by Olivier Hasinger, Climate Change research associate at the Global Marine and Polar Programme Livelihoods depend on biological diversity for food security, fuel, health, provision of clean air and...
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Kristina Gjerde, IUCN Senior High Seas Advisor, Global Marine and Polar Programme On my first day here in Hyderabad, India, I ventured out to visit the 500 year old fort of Golkonda. This huge hill-top...
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Earth calling
by Sonia Peña Moreno, IUCN SeniorPolicy Officer-Biodiversity. Day 9 at CBD COP11, 16 October 2012 It is a strange world the one of international environmental conferences. I wonder what a “normal”...
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A springboard for action to protect the East Asian–Australasian Flyway
By Nicola Crockford, International Species Policy Officer, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) The East Asian–Australasian Flyway (EAAF) is important for the millions of migratory birds...
View ArticleThe most dangerous animal in the city
by Chantal van Ham, European Programme Officer, IUCN European Union Representative Office, Brussels On my way to Hyderabad, I was reading a wonderful novel, The Life of Pi, about an Indian teenager who...
View ArticleFrom Jeju to Hyderabad – to bee or not to bee?
by Gerard Bos – Head of the IUCN Global Business & Biodiversity Programme Jeju is still fresh in our minds and I could not resist comparing our World Conservation Congress with this 11th Convention...
View ArticleReflections on the last day of CBD
by Stephen Woodley PhD - Senior Advisor, Biodiversity and Climate Change; IUCN Protected Areas Programme. Delegates are looking bleary-eyed on this last day of the 11th Conference of the Parties to the...
View ArticleAsia becomes the “place to go” for meetings on nature
by Cyriaque N. Sendashonga, Global Director, IUCN Programme and Policy Group The CBD – COP 11 meeting is in its final leg. The plenary session of this afternoon adopted quite a lot of the decisions...
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