2011 Call of the Leadership Programme in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (SAM)
This initiative of the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (FMCN)and The Summit Foundation opens the 2011 Call with the focus on Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas. They look for active leaders in the SAM region, with innovative conservation projects. Deadline is September 19, 2010.
Terra Viva Grants develops and manages information about grants for agriculture, energy, environment, and natural resources in the world's developing countries.
The Centre for Executive Education of the UPeace offers courses on diverse topics such as Social Corporate Responsibility, Ecotourism, Sustainable Business, among others.
The communication tool of the Salvadorean Ecologic Unit (Unidad Ecológica Salvadoreña) IUCN Member, contains relevant news and articles on environmental topics in El Salvador and around the World.
Fundación para la Protección de Lancetilla, Punta Sal y Texiguat (PROLANSATE), IUCN Member in Honduras, sent us the first official photograph of a jaguar in the Jeannette Kawas National Park . This is a result of the efforts made by the PANTHERA, ICF project, with the support of PROLANSATE Foundation and shows the importance of this National Park as a unique site that is home for a wide variety of flora y fauna species.
News of UCI - August 2010
University for International Cooperación (UCI), IUCN Member in Costa Rica Rica presents its monthly newsletter, with information on their programmes of studies and articles on environmental issues at national and international level.
Boletín Nº 4 Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
An update of the de la Conference Sharing power: A new vision for Development", 11-15 January, 2011: new members; reports; activties in 2010, publications and other topics.
Last August, colleagues from Mexico and Guatemala shared experiences on basin management in the Tacana Volcano area. The exchange was aimed to bring together nationals from both countries in order to look for solutions that increase social and environmental well being.
This newsletter shows a synthesis of the impacts achieved by the six consortium that implement the Alianzas project in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, with the Norwegian Cooperation support.
IUCN starts the initiative: "Good governance of water for adaptation: Building capacity to climate change adaptation based on ecosystems at the national and regional levels in Mesoamerica”. This project is part of the International Climate Initiative.
This new social and environmental network, part of the Pacto por la Vida initiative which is sponsored by the IUCN, looks to bring together the Latin American community under sustainability and environmental awareness umbrella. It has reached almost 1200 users from the region since its launching, two months ago.
Community and IUCN agree integrated management for Samala river
IUCN and the association of communities Metrópoli de los Altos signed a memorandum of understanding for the implementation of a model for Water Resources Integrated Management based on micro watershed. The aim of the agreement is to improve the environmental conditions in the Samala river basin, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
For IUCN Members: online Resolutions report system
In this system, IUCN Members will be able to report their contributions to the fulfillment of the Resolutions and Recommendations of the 4th World Conservation Congress, 2008.
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IUCN Magazine
The latest issue of World Conservation magazine: Saving biodiversity. An economic approach.
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Marine News
Marine News is the IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme e-newsletter. It includes news stories related to a diversity of marine-related topics such as climate change mitigation and adaptation; threatened marine species; marine protected areas, among others.
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Newletter Nº 1 GrupoEco
This is the news bulletin of GrupoEco from the IUCN Regional Office for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.
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Sanctuaries of the Caribbean
An excellent video from the Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management (CaMPAM) Network and Forum.
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This is the news bulletin of GrupoEco from the IUCN Regional Office for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.
An excellent video from the Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management (CaMPAM) Network and Forum.