Tag: IUCN

As climate change and conflict increase, new IUCN reports says conservationists need to better consider how they engage with migration and displacement of both human and other species

Stuart Mitchell

In a thought-provoking new report titled “Planet on the Move“, IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) underscores the need for a paradigm shift in global conservation efforts in the face of growing human and other species migration potentially fuelled by climate change, environmental degradation, and conflict. The World Bank estimates that climate-induced internal migration could impact 216 million people by 2050, led by movements in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Photo: Pixabay Co-authored…

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IUCN Restoration Barometer documents extensive ecosystem restoration across 18 countries

Stuart Mitchell

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published its first Restoration Barometer report, documenting that investments of $26bn across 18 countries have brought 14 million hectares of degraded landscapes – an area about the size of Greece – under restoration. The report details how 18 countries are using the Restoration Barometer tool to track progress on their restoration commitments under global agreements, which total 48 million hectares by 2030. It shows that restoration activities are currently ongoing in a total of 14 million hectares, thanks to a cumulative…

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