NEW REPORT: Valuing Nature: Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services

Author(s): (Edi­tors:) Pene­lope Fig­gis, Bren­dan Mackey, James Fitzsi­mons, Jason Irv­ing and Pepe Clarke Title: Valu­ing Nature: Pro­tected Areas and Ecosys­tem Ser­vices Year: 2015 In: IUCN Aus­tralia SCIENCE INFORMING POLICY SYMPOSIUM SERIES Pages: 140. Pub­li­ca­tion type: report Lan­guage: Eng­lish Source: http://aciucn.org.au/index.php/publications/2015-valuing-nature/ … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Extractives industries in Africa: Blessing or Curse?

What’s it about in short: arti­cle adsress­ing the aims of BirdLife Inter­na­tional, IUCN and WWF to bal­ance extrac­tives indus­tries in Africa with social and envieon­men­tal con­cerns When was it released: June 12, 2015 By whom: Ken Mwathe, BirdLife More info: http://www.birdlife.org/africa/news/extractives-industries-africa-blessing-or-curse … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Biodiversity offsets — a balancing act

What’s it about in short: Steve Edwards of IUCN’s Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Pro­gramme explains how gov­ern­ment and busi­ness are look­ing at ways to com­pen­sate for the impacts of devel­op­ment on bio­di­ver­sity. When was it released: Jan­u­ary 15, 2015 By whom: IUCN More … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: The pros and cons of biodiversity offsets

What’s it about in short: arti­cle based on an inter­view with Ariel Brun­ner (BirdLife Europe) on the pros and cons of bio­di­ver­sity off­sets When was it released: Sep­tem­ber 7, 2015 By whom: IUCN More info: http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/business/?21861/The-pros-and-cons-of-biodiversity-offsets … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO: Deberían las organizaciones conservacionistas tratar a la naturaleza como capital natural? — Should conservation organizations treat nature as capital?

What’s it about in short: dis­cus­sion on the role of nature con­ser­va­tion orga­ni­za­tions towards nat­ural cap­i­tal (orig­i­nally writ­ten by Jacob Sal­cone form IUCN Ocea­nia) When was it released: Octo­ber 7, 2015 By whom: Mer­ca­dos de Medio Ambi­ente More info: http://www.mercadosdemedioambiente.com/opinion/deberian-las-organizaciones-conservacionistas-tratar-a-la-naturaleza-como-capital-natural/ (in … Con­tinue read­ing

SHORT INFO — Should conservation organizations treat nature as natural capital? — An opinion piece by Jacob Salcone

What’s it about in short: opin­ion piece on the role of nature con­ser­va­tion orga­ni­za­tions in the dis­cus­sion about eco­nomic val­u­a­tion of nature (Nat­ural Cap­i­tal) When was it released: Sep­tem­ber 3, 2015 By whom: Jacob Sal­cone, IUCN More info: http://www.iucn.org/about/union/secretariat/offices/oceania/?21849/Should-conservation-organizations-treat-nature-as-natural-capital—An-opinion-piece-by-Jacob-Salcone … Con­tinue read­ing

IUCN public consultation: IUCN seeks input on draft Biodiversity Offsets Policy

Some time ago IUCN launched its Draft Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pol­icy for pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion and com­ments. Shar­ing this with you is on my to-do-list for quite a while and time is run­ning. Before it’s too late (appar­ently the con­sul­ta­tion web­site still … Con­tinue read­ing

2014 IUCN World Parks Congress launches dialogue on biodiversity offsets

Held once every 10 years, the 2014 World Parks Con­gress in Novem­ber 2014 attracted 6,000 par­tic­i­pants from 170 coun­tries, and secured more than 70 new major con­ser­va­tion com­mit­ments, includ­ing Gabon’s promise to pro­tect 23% of its coast­line, and the Elion … Con­tinue read­ing

IUCN webinar (11 June) on ‘No Net Loss and Net Positive Impact Approaches for Biodiversity: exploring the potential application of these approaches in the commercial agriculture and forestry sectors’

IUCN has pub­lished a report enti­tled: No Net Loss and Net Pos­i­tive Impact Approaches for Bio­di­ver­sity: Explor­ing the poten­tial appli­ca­tion of these approaches in the com­mer­cial agri­cul­ture and forestry sec­tors (see also my recent post on this) IUCN’s Global Busi­ness and … Con­tinue read­ing

No Net Loss and Net Positive Impact Approaches for Biodiversity — new IUCN study explores the potential for agriculture and forestry

Com­mer­cial agri­cul­ture and forestry could have a net pos­i­tive impact on bio­di­ver­sity – say the authors of a recent report. Thanks to Fabien Quetier for inform­ing me about one of the lat­est IUCN reports enti­tled “No Net Loss and Net … Con­tinue read­ing