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December 2007
Mediterranean
Mountains; underestimated
social and economic
values
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November 2007
Alboran:
knowing and managing
in common
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16
November 2007
Mediterranean
Sea: most dangerous
place on Earth for
sharks and rays
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14
November 2007
Lisbon
marks major shift
in convergence between
business and biodiversity
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September 2007, Malaga,
Spain
22
countries, 1 sea,
1 future (PDF) |
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September
2007, Malaga, Spain
The
advantages and disadvantages
of culturing fish
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11 May, 2007,
Almeria, Spain
Creating
a common language
for protected areas
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April 2007, Malaga,
Spain
Conservation,
Biodiversity and the
Mediterranean
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April 2007, Malaga,
Spain
Andalucia
and Children’s View
on Water: New Video
Launch (PDF
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 More progress in Sustainable Mediterranean Fisheries
March, 2008
IUCN welcomes a new cooperation agreement with the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), announced during the 32nd session held in Rome from 25 to 29 February 2008 ...
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 WWF and IUCN launch new green on-line community for youth, supported by Nokia
March, 2008
Two of the world’s largest environmental organizations, WWF and IUCN, supported by Nokia, are launching connect2earth.org for young people to tell the world what they think about the environment ...
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 New MedWet Coordinator
February, 2008
The MedWet Secretariat is pleased to announce thet Mr Adnan Budieri has been appointed as MedWet Coordinator.
Adnan Budieri has over 18 years of experience in environmental management focusing on wetland, coastal zone and marine management, as well as on biodiversity. He has been involved in activities related to the CBD, the Ramsar Convention (representing Jordan at COPs), the World ...
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 The protection of the Mediterranean in the COP15
January, 2008
IUCN has recently participated in the recent meeting held in Almeria, and is very pleased with the progress made at this Meeting of the Contracting Parties of the Barcelona Convention. Through several projects related to Marine Protected Areas, marine biodiversity and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean, the Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation is currently working to ...
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 Davos to fuel climate and energy debate – IUCN
January, 2008
The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, (January 23 – 27) provides an unrivalled platform for leaders to shape the global agenda at the start of each year. At its core this is the world’s largest gathering ...
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 New Donor Joins IUCN Framework Donor group
January, 2008
On 18 January 2008 the Director General of IUCN, Julia Marton-Lefèvre and Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, Director of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID – Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarollo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...
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 Disaster risk, gender and climate change
December, 2007
The UN/ International Strategy for Disaster Reduction - ISDR secretariat in collaboration with IUCN and WEDO has issued in Bali a call for good practices and lessons learned that link disaster risk reduction as a key tool for reducing the impact of climate change, with a gender perspective. They are seeking examples of projects and initiatives across humanitarian, environmental and development sectors that: promote positive changes to how women
Full StoryContribution GuidelinesIUCN: Gender and Climate Change [PDF] |
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 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 2007
Bali, Indonesia, 3-14 December, 2007
For this 13th Conference Of Parties (COP 13), IUCN stresses the need to give due consideration to the links between climate change, equity and biodiversity, and the opportunities and challenges these links pose, for mitigating and adapting to climate change.change.
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 B for Barcelona, biodiversity and beauty
December, 2007
The logo for the next IUCN World Conservation Congress has been officially unveiled. The Congress, to be held in Barcelona from 5-14 October 2008, will celebrate diversity and how natural diversity underpins
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 Mediterranean Sea: most dangerous place on Earth for sharks and rays
16 November, 2007
More than 40% of shark and ray species in the Mediterranean are threatened with extinction, according to a new report from the IUCN – World Conservation Union
The first complete IUCN Red List assessment of the status of all Mediterranean sharks and rays has revealed that 42% of the species are threatened with extinction. Overfishing, including bycatch (non-target species caught incidentally), is the main cause of decline, according to the research.
The report, released today by the IUCN Shark Specialist Group and the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, shows that the region has the highest percentage of threatened sharks and rays in the world.
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 Mediterranean Members Meeting in Malaga
October 2007
IUCN-Med is pleased to inform you that the full report of the IUCN Mediterranean members meeting held in Malaga from 5 to 8 September is now available in three languages, together with most presentations delivered during the event and a selection of pictures provided by the participants.
Thank you again to everybody for making it a successful and fruitful meeting, and special thanks to the speakers for making their presentations public through our webpage.
Please feel free to fill in our Communication survey or send your comments to uicnmed@iucn.org.
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 International
Women Environmental
Entrepreneurs Fair
9 October 2007
IUCN will use the
platform offered
by the World Conservation
Congress to organize
the International
Women Environmental
Entrepreneurs Fair.
The Fair is an innovative
and unique global
opportunity, because
it will make visible
the economic, social
and environmental
inputs that women
entrepreneurs bring
to their countries
and the world through
their “green
enterprises”
(i.e., environmentally
friendly).
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 International gathering for conservation in Alboran
October 2007
The Alboran Sea is considered a very important area at geopolitical, strategic and scientific level. Due to the relevance of its ecosystems and biodiversity, it can also be considered as the dynamic engine for biodiversity in the Western Mediterranean. It deserves, therefore, to be protected and well managed. Representatives from Morocco, Spain and Algeria including research organisations, universities, governments and NGOs will present and ...
Noticia
CompletaAgenda
(Spanish)
Alboran Report (Spanish)
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 Lebanon oil spill documentary wins first prize at international film festival
9 October 2007
A documentary produced by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) has won first prize at an international film festival in Italy
The film, called The Oil Spill in Lebanon, depicts the environmentally-disastrous oil slick caused by Israel’s bombing of the Jiyyeh power plant in south Lebanon on July 13 and 15, 2006.
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 22 countries, 1 sea, 1 future
September 2007
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) closed the Mediterranean gathering with a new impulse towards cooperation
After four days of debate in Malaga, key nature conservation actors have wrapped up the meeting with a conviction: the future of environment lays in cooperation and the involvement of the society as a whole, including the private sector. Development and human wellbeing cannot take place without a long term vision to mitigate the negative effects of human action over the natural resources upon which we all depend.
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 The advantages and disadvantages of culturing fish
September 2007
The World Conservation Union (IUCN), aware that food production and security can affect enormously nature conservation and its management, is progressing work towards the development of sustainable aquaculture. After several workshops and meetings and based on ...
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 Release of 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
Semptember 2007
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognized as the most reliable evaluation of the global status of plants and animals. It classifies species according to their extinction risk and brings into sharp focus the ongoing decline of the world’s biodiversity.
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 Mediterranean Reflections
July 2007
As you can see in this progress report, the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation made incredible progress during 2006. We validated and made available stunning facts about our Mediterranean biodiversity and its links to society. We learnt that a quarter of our amphibians are in danger of extinction; that half of the reptile species found in our region are threatened; that water pollution and extraction are pressuring 56% of our freshwater fish to disappear, and that marine resources are in strong need of protection measures due to over fishing, maritime traffic and coastal development.
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Information for Members from Strengthening IUCN: Decisions on Organizational Change
July 2007
The Director General issued her first change management document at the end of June, and shared this with all members of the decentralized IUCN Secretariat. The document is based on the DG’s own impressions, numerous useful discussions with, and feedback from, internal and external stakeholders, and information and recommendations found in various IUCN documents.
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 New Report: Libya Workshop on Sustainable Tourism
25 June 2007
The Proceedings of the first Workshop on Sustainable Tourism held in Al Bayda (Libya) from 28-29 November 2006 are now available.
The workshop was organized by the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, the Environment General Authority of Libya, IUCN Business and Biodiversity programme, the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC / SPA) and the WWF Mediterranean Programme Office.
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 Inhabitable
planets are hard
to find
5
June 2007
On the occasion
of World Environment
Day, IUCN Director
General Julia Marton-Lefèvre
reflects on the
future of our planet
and suggests four
ideas to guide concrete
actions to protect
our planet. “Let’s
(…) harden
our resolve to make
this planet, our
planet, a better
place for all of
us to live and prosper,”
she writes.
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 Creating
a common language
for protected areas
May
2007
From 7 to 11 May
2007 over 100 experts
from about 40 countries
gathered in Almería,
Spain, to improve
the internationally-recognized
IUCN Categories
System, which since
1994 has created
a “common
language”
for the world’s
protected areas.
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 Algeria
: a new IUCN state
member in Africa
May
2007
The Government
of the Republic
of Algeria has officially
joined the World
Conservation Union
(IUCN) as its 84th
State member.
Located in Northern
Africa, bordering
the Mediterranean
Sea, between Morocco
and Tunisia , the
Republic of Algeria
is the second largest
country in Africa
(after Sudan ).
The Sahara desert
is covering 90%
of its territory
(2,300,000 square
kilometers) and
the fight against
desertification
is one of the major
challenges of this
country.
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des affaires étrangères
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 Conservation,
Biodiversity and
the Mediterranean
April 2007
Andalusia’s
regional government
through the Consejería
de Medio Ambiente
has reaffirmed its
commitment to the
conservation of
nature and natural
resources at international
level hand in hand
with IUCN. Its gear
towards sustainability
was already reflected
when la Junta led
the process that
would culminate
in the official
inauguration of
the Mediterranean
IUCN office in October
2001 in the Science
and Technology Park
of Andalusia in
Malaga.
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 Andalucia
and Children’s
View on Water: New
Video Launch
April 2007
More than 100 students
from Malaga participated
in the international
IUCN Multimedia
Water project, thanks
to the Consejería
de Medio Ambiente
y Agencia Andaluza
del Agua de la Junta
de Andalucía.
Bringing together
schoolchildren and
government officials,
the Mediterranean
IUCN office convened
this unique ...
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StoryPress
release (Spanish)Video
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 The
corporate frog footprint
February 2007
The Spanish shoe
maker El Naturalista,
“the frog
brand”, has
launched with its
Spring/Summer 2007
collection, a Limited
Edition of the “VIANDANTE”
Sneaker line (inspired
by those who travel
the world) to draw
attention to the
decline of frogs
due to habitat loss,
climate change and
a lethal fungus.
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 Marine
Biodiversity and
Integrated Coastal
Management in Egypt
March 2007
New cooperation
areas have been
agreed between the
Marine Programme
of IUCN-Med and
the University of
Cantabria in Spain
in order to build
synergies and benefit
from each others
research projects
for sustainable
development and
nature conservation
along the coast
of Egypt.
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 Spain
gives new impetus
to IUCN and proposes
Ambassador for Climate
Change
March 2007
To strengthen Spain’s
long-standing support
to global nature conservation
and the IUCN Mediterranean
Programme, the Spanish
Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Cooperation,
Miguel Angel Moratinos
met with the new IUCN
Mediterranean Director,
Margarita Astrálaga
during his recent
visit to the IUCN
offices in Málaga.
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 IUCN
joins Málaga
and Morocco in the
Alboran Sea
February 2007
The Diputación
de Málaga
(province government)
in Andalucia is
supporting the IUCN
Centre for Mediterranean
Cooperation (IUCN-Med)
also in Malaga in
order to elaborate
an action plan for
the Alboran Sea.
In order to do so,
a first up-to-date
and rigorous document
on the future management
strategy for a Conservation
and Sustainable
Development in the
area is being prepared.
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 World
Challenge 2007
February
2007
Now in its third
year, World Challenge
is back and looking
for nominations
for projects that
make a real difference
to local communities.
The mission of World
Challenge 2007 is
simple: to seek
and reward innovators
and entrepreneurs
who are implementing
grassroots solutions
to some of the toughest
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Challenge 2007
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 Climate
Change and Women
February 2007
For this 8 of March
2007, International
Women’s Day,
the World Conservation
Union (IUCN) is
highlighting the
importance of gender
and climate change
and giving recognition
to the work and
the role of women
from all around
the world in the
fields of policy,
mitigation, or adaptation
to climate change
...
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and Environment
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 Protected
Areas in Egypt:
Moving Forward
January 2007
Protected Areas
in Egypt have been
a fundamental management
tool for nature
conservation during
the past 20 years,
with an increasingly
important role in
the social and economic
development of the
country.
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 Margarita
Astrálaga
appointed new Director
for IUCN Centre
for Meditrerranean
Cooperation, Spain
12
December 2006
The World Conservation
Union (IUCN) is
pleased to announce
the appointment
of Ms. Margarita
Astrálaga
as Director of the
IUCN Centre for
Mediterranean Cooperation
in Malaga, Spain.
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Sustainable Tourism
in Libya
30
November 2006
Tourism in Libya
and North Africa
is expected to grow
at an unprecedented
pace in the next
decade. Such rapid
development may
have unforeseen
consequences to
biodiversity and
the environment
of this region.
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September
2006
Julia
Marton-Lefèvre appointed
Director General of the
World Conservation Union
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September
2006
A
quarter of the Mediterranean’s
amphibians are threatened
with extinction
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August
2006
Mediterranean
environment affected by
armed conflict
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June
2006
Activity
Report 2005
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May
2006
Next
World Conservation Congress
to be in Barcelona
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May
2006
Mediterranean
Freshwater Fish on the Brink
of Extinction
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May
2006
Release
of the 2006 IUCN Red List
of Threatened Species reveals
ongoing decline of the status
of plants and animals
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April
2006
Mediterranean
Marine Protected Areas On-line
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February
2006
Whales
in the Desert!
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February
2006
Information
Platform on Invasive Alien
Species in the Mediterranean
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February 2006
IUCN-Med
contribution to the Mediterranean
Forum of Water and Drought
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February 2006
Safeguarding
Traditional Knowledge: A
Guide to Medicinal Plants
in North Africa
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January 2006
Mediterranean
contribution to the Global
Conference on Oceans
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People of Salum learn about marine conservation
New Draft IUCN Protected Area Category Guidelines
