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IUCN NCUK Nature & Human Wellbeing – Scoring Common Goals, 2nd May, London
International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN National Committee UK event: ‘Nature and Human Wellbeing – Scoring Common Goals’ …
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Cheetah conservation and community health – paper published
The UK’s most recent IUCN member, the Margaret Pyke Trust, has published what is likely the first ever paper making the connections between human reproductive health and rights and the conservation of a specific species – the cheetah. In “The importance of human reproductive health and rights for cheetah conservation” the Margaret Pyke Trust, and…
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UNESCO Biospheres meet in Dublin
Man and Biosphere Reserves, like World Heritage Sites and Geoparks, are of course, a product of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. There are six ‘Biospheres’ in British waters when you include the Isle of Man, and two more in Ireland, contributing to the 669 total in 120 countries around the world.…
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IUCN NCUK River Restoration and Biodiversity project expert workshop
Bring twenty of the most knowledgeable experts on river restoration in Britain and Ireland together and you can expect some well-informed outputs. Successfully delivered here was the second two-day expert workshop for the IUCN National Committee UK’s ‘River Restoration and Biodiversity’ project, this time hosted by Natural Resources Wales at their offices in Bangor in…
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Culturally Natural or Naturally Cultural?
‘Culturally Natural or Naturally Cultural? explores the relationship between nature and culture through numerous case studies of World Heritage Sites and some new research which reveals some perhaps surprising statistics. The work forms the report of a workshop held at the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Park UNESCO World Heritage Site and the publication is…
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National Park City Foundation launched!
I was very pleased to be invited to the launch of the National Park City Foundation yesterday in London. The energy in the room was palpable, no doubt in some small part due to the passion shared by the front man in this initiative, Daniel Raven-Ellison whom I first met at the IUCN World Parks…
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Roger Crofts receives Packard Award
The prestigious Packard Award is made by IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) in recognition of outstanding service to protected areas. The award is named after the individual who served as Secretary to the WCPA in the early 1970s. He established an award in recognition of “valour” which has been used to recognise rangers…
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New IUCN Member holds major population and environment event
One of the most recent organisations from the UK to join IUCN is the Margaret Pyke Trust, with the Population and Sustainability Network. They will be holding a Population and Conservation event on the 10th July in London, moderated by Andrew Mitchell MP. ‘A win-win for human and environmental health: How conservation programmes can be…
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