The IUCN Congress is declared open
After an amazing opening ceremony with speeches, traditional and modern Korean music, theatre and dance, where IUCN President Ashok Khosla declared the IUCN World Conservation Congress open, we all went…
After an amazing opening ceremony with speeches, traditional and modern Korean music, theatre and dance, where IUCN President Ashok Khosla declared the IUCN World Conservation Congress open, we all went…
Every four year, during the IUCN World Conservation Congress, our Members elect the representatives for the IUCN Council. Yesterday – 5 September 2012 – was the last meeting of the…
The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the main event we organise every four years. It means that most of the Headquarters personnel and many of the staff in the Regions…
I arrived this morning at the #IUCN2012 World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Korea. It is humid and warm here, with a cloudy sky. The bus ride from Jeju Airport in the…
I am off to the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, Korea tomorrow morning, arriving there on Tuesday 4 September around midday. During the following days I will be giving…
Next week, the IUCN World Conservation Congress will take place in Jeju, Korea. “So what?”, you may ask. We had Rio+20 earlier this year, there is a meeting of the Convention…
Last week, I read an article in the Guardian Weekly about rare earths in Greenland, and the impending pressure from mining and exploration. This made an impression on me for…
I was on the website of one of our members in the Netherlands, the mammal association (zoogdiervereniging), and they have very positive news about the fact that the status of…
We went for an early morning walk in the Parc Jura Vaudois this morning. What stunning landscape, and so close to where we live. The bedrock is limestone, and there…
Last week, I had a meeting with the European secretariat of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability in Freiburg, Germany (http://www.iclei-europe.org/) after a comfortable train ride from Gland, Switzerland, where the…
