New project in Nauru, Niue and Tuvalu focuses on local energy ...

In 1996, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) put the Hula painted frog (Discoglossus nigriventer) in the same sad category as the dodo after its sole known habitat, Hula Lake in northern Israel, had been drained. But Israeli, ...

The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years and turns out to be a unique "living fossil," without close ...

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community has signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to work together in areas of conservation and development in the Pacific. The four-year MOU, signed in ...

VietNamNet Bridge IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the science advisory organization to UNESCO, has confirmed that it has proposed not to grant the world's natural heritage to the Vietnamese Cat Tien National Park. IUCN ...

$5,000 grant to rare Charitable Research Reserve for conservation programs CAMBRIDGE, ON, June 12, 2013 /CNW/ - Union Gas is helping rare Charitable Research Reserve preserve, protect, restore and improve the natural resources and environment of ...

BRITAIN must not risk being excluded from international deals by quitting the European Union, Cabinet minister Kenneth Clarke has warned in a sensational attack against Eurosceptics. Kenneth Clarke has warned against Britain leaving the EU Severing ...

Conservationists fighting to save coastal coral reefs should think first about combating local deforestation rather than attacking the wider peril of global warming, suggests an unusual study published on Tuesday. Sediment washed downriver by ...

BRUSSELS, June 6 (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Thursday to tighten an existing ban on "shark finning", or slicing fins off sharks often while they are still alive, which environmental campaigners say is cruel and threatens the survival of ...

The mother of intolerance is the Union home ministry, run by ultra-conservative bureaucrats who are inclined to take a hard line on matters ranging from fighting insurgencies to putting citizens under surveillance to outlawing dissident groups, says Praful Bidwai. Perhaps no other country has as great and complex a maze of laws and rules that give arbitrary or unlimited powers to the State as India. And no other State has abused them as comprehensively as has India to censor free expression, ...