Despite decades of attention and advocacy, tropical forests are still falling at rapid rates worldwide. This is an interesting article about the research focus of Dr Bhagwat, an environmental geographer... read more →
Little has yet been published about the subject of urban protected areas, so the publication in May 2014 by IUCN is helpful as it introduces a number of ideas that may... read more →
Prince Hassan of Jordan has recently signed a declaration of support for the traditional land management practices of Hima which is found across the Arab World. Hima (Arabic: حمى) literally... read more →
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was established in April 2012, as an independent intergovernmental body open to all member countries of the United Nations. The members are... read more →
The Sacred Natural Sites Initiative is receiving many interesting abstracts for the Publication on Asian Sacred Natural Sites that is scheduled for the World Parks Congress in collaboration with IUCN,... read more →
CSVPA members may be interested to know that the 7th International Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP): “Local action for the common good", will be held in Costa Rica... read more →
With thanks to CSVPA member Vita De Waal for alerting us to this, please note the Yasuni National Park is at risk. Companies could start extracting oil underneath key biodiversity reserve... read more →
The UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-IWEH) from February to May hosted a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Environmental Land Degradation (ELD). The course demonstrated how to... read more →
CSVPA members may be interested in this article by Nijaz Deleut on 'EUROPEAN PROTECTED AREAS: Two Study Cases'. It's on "restoring military land in the Mountain Protected Areas", one is the "Hjerkinn Military... read more →
As this is related, likely of interest to many CSVPA members: ourvoices.net goes live 5pm GMT on Tuesday 6th May, coinciding with the event happening at St Paul's Cathedral, London... read more →
