Natural resource management

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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

26 entries

Motmot bird in Costa Rica

IIED and partner events at the World Conservation Congress 2020

Event on 03 September 2021

A green mangrove forest on the edge of a lake, with the roots of the mangroves exposed

Nature-based solutions: building blocks for green recovery and climate action in least developed countries

Insight, 31 August 2021

This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica

Active Project

Workshop participants undertake a participatory resource mapping exercise for community enterprises (Photo: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources - ANSAB)

Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II

News, 20 July 2018

An elephant in Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park. Efforts to combat illegal trade in high-value commodities such as tusks depend largely on the support of local communities.(Photo: Jurriaan Persyn, Creative Commons via Flickr)

New collection of publications on community engagement to tackle illegal wildlife trade

News, 09 May 2018

The Las Trancas Valley in Chile, November 2014 (Photo: UICN / Marcelo Vildósola Garrigó)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Chile

Active Project

Field visit as part of the Mountain Ecosystem-based Adaptation project, Mount Elgon, Uganda (IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Uganda

Active Project

A market takes place in the village of Tiogo next to the Tiogo Forest in Burkina Faso. With much of the food and hand crafts on sale from the forest, the community is dependent on the conservation of the forest to maintain their livelihoods (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Towards a fairer future for conservation

Insight, 05 September 2016

Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)

IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress

Event on 01 September 2016

Rhinos in the Serengeti National Park. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates that poachers killed at least 1,338 rhinos across Africa in 2015 (Photo: Nicholas Maxim, Creative Commons via Flickr)

New report: local people are crucial to combating illegal wildlife trade

News, 03 August 2016

Elephants in front of Mount Kilimanjaro. The blurring of fact and fiction, such as claims trophy hunting is driving declines of endangered species such as elephants, is fuelling a debate that could do more harm than good for conservation and for poor people (Photo: Amoghavarsha, via Google licence)

Trophy hunting under fire

Insight, 11 April 2016

Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)

It's time for revolution in forest business

Insight, 17 November 2014

Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya

Insight, 11 November 2014

People from Kandadji village, which is due to be flooded, meet to discuss resettlement plans (Photo: Jamie Skinner)

Niger hosts forum on securing land rights in irrigated areas

News, 07 May 2014

This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter

Insight, 24 March 2014

Trafficking of wildlife, driven by escalating demand for products such as elephant ivory, is a booming market worth US$19bn a year (Photo: Nonprofit Organizations via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

International push to tackle illegal wildlife trade risks missing potential of sustainable use

News, 11 February 2014

Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?

Insight, 04 February 2014

Unleashing the economic power of forest lands through producer organisations

News, 05 December 2013

Countryside in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. Photo: Duncan Macqueen

Strength in numbers: the promise of forest producer organisations

Insight, 28 November 2013

A beekeeper in Guatemala finds an alternative source of income. Photo: Todd Post/Bread for the World Institute

Judging the effectiveness of alternative livelihoods projects

Active Project

A man waters seedlings at a nursery at the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya managed by Wildlife Works Carbon.

Investment guide to ‘triple win’ from locally controlled forestry

News, 24 September 2012

The Sumatran rhinoceros

World Conservation Congress: key themes and a new leader to watch

Insight, 17 September 2012

The rugged coastline of Jeju Island, South Korea, where the World Conservation Congress is being held.

IUCN World Conservation Congress begins

Insight, 06 September 2012

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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012

Event on 09 June 2026

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Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

Locally controlled forestry

Forest and Farm Facility (FFF)

Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (EbA)