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Improving lives and protecting biodiversity in Guatemela
Central America is rich in natural and cultural diversity. But this ‘bio-cultural’ wealth is a stark contrast to the poor management of the region’s ecosystems, economic and social inequalities and some of the worlds’s highest rates of deforestation. As a response, IUCN is working through its Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS) to sustain the flow of goods and services from forest landscapes for the benefit of local people and biodiversity. In Guatemala, LLS is underway at two sites, Lachua and Tacanà. This nine-minute video describes these two projects and the impact they are having.
The movie is currently in Spanish, but a version with English subtitles will be available soon on this site.
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26 Feb 2010 | Video
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A paradise in peril
New Guinea is recognised globally for its extraordinary biodiversity, including almost all of the world’s Birds of Paradise. Papua, the Indonesian half of the island, still has 70% forest cover, yet its Baliem Valley, which supports one of the highest rural population densities in Papua, is under threat from logging and development. …
31 Jan 2010 | Video
Forests for the 21st century
More than half of the world's forest cover has been lost. Deforestation is currently responsible for nearly 20 per cent of global carbon emissions. We need to reduce this tide of deforestation, but we can make a much greater impact if we also put back some of our lost forests. …
29 Jan 2010 | Video
IUCN's frog message to save the rainforests
IUCN's Director-General Julia Merton-Lèfevre sends an SOS message about saving the rainforests and calls for people and businesses to sign up to The Prince's Rainforests Project Rainforest SOS campaign. …
04 Dec 2009 | Video
Climate thinkers
Climate Thinkers taps into the minds of leading scientists, politicians, policy makers and ordinary people to get their insights into the challenges of climate change and their ideas on how to tackle it. …
04 Dec 2009 | Video
Nature-our trusted ally in climate change fight
This film explains the two solutions IUCN sees to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change - reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), as well as ecosystems based adaptation. …
03 Dec 2009 | Video
REDD Explained
IUCN's David Huberman, Green Economy Coordinator, explains what the climate change policy acronym REDD means in practice. …
01 Oct 2009 | Video
Lemurs and giant tortoises in Zurich, Switzerland
Every five minutes a piece of rainforest, the size of the Masoala Rainforest in the Zurich zoo, is destroyed in Madagascar. Poaching, illegal wood trade and slash burning have put an end to over 90 percent of the rainforests in one of the poorest countries in the world. …
08 Apr 2009 | Video
Power to the people
There is increasing understanding about the links between conservation and poverty reduction-how the livelihoods of millions of the rural poor depend on healthy ecosystems. The challenge is putting this understanding into practice, involving local people in decisions about, and management of the natural resources on which they depend. Gonzalo Oviedo explains some of the issues and what's needed to address them. …
09 Oct 2008 | Video
