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…
For a number of years, I have visited the island of Gozo in the Mediterranean, and I have become very attached to its culture, its landscape and its society. I…
Total CO2 emissions from the half million km2 of degraded peatland globally exceeds 2 Gtons. Restoration of this resource is therefore critical for both biodiversity conservation and carbon emissions reduction…
We are in the third year of the European Business and Biodiversity Platform (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/biodiversity/business/index_en.html), and had discussions a few months ago about the future of this initiative and a possible…
Cross-border nature conservation has been a tool to bring together parties with different political agendas. It is also an essential means to protect landscapes that cross political boundaries within the…
Protected areas are one of the best means of protecting critical ecosystems and biodiversity. IUCN prides itself as the world authority in this field, and its World Commission on Protected…
The Leaders for Nature initiative, managed by the IUCN National Committee in the Netherlands has enabled the development of action plans on global biodiversity and ecosystems by those Dutch companies…
I am on holiday in Malta, a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. The pace of life is different here, and you take more time to reflect on work, society…
I have never been to Albania, and was therefore very interested to read on our web that, although relatively small in size, Albania has a rich biological diversity and almost…
IUCN published its latest red List of Threatened Species recently, and a story was posted on the IUCN web page: http://www.iucn.org/news_homepage/?10173/Securing-the-web-of-life. As so often, the information in such global statements…
