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Mangroves make great conservation allies
26.07.2017July 26, 2017 – The world is losing its mangrove forests at an alarming rate. Scientists estimate that 50 percent of our mangroves have disappeared during the last five decades. And every year we lose roughly another 1 percent. At this rate all unprotected...
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Wilderness areas are fast declining and World Heritage can protect them, says IUCN report
26.06.2017New guidance launched today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) urges the World Heritage Convention to better conserve wilderness areas, and large landscapes and seascapes, as they are increasingly threatened, including by climate...
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El Salvador makes case for strengthening its national restoration strategy at Bonn Challenge event
13.06.2017Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is recognised as a key strategy to not only restore ecological integrity, but also to generate local, national and global benefits. El Salvador embraced this concept and took action as outlined in a strategy presented at the...
Latest publications
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World heritage, wilderness, and large landscapes and seascapes
Badman, Tim, Bertzky, Bastian, Jaeger, Tilman, Kormos, Cyril F., Larsen, Peter Bille, Merm, Remco van, Osipova, Elena, Shi, Yichuan
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Vulnerability and climate risk analysis of the Amazon biome and its protected areas
Guevara, Óscar, Prüssmann, Johanna, Suárez, César, Vergara, Analiz
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Adapting to climate change
Gross, John E., Watson, James E.M., Welling, Leigh A., Woodley, Stephen
