Country brief: South Africa
2025
IUCN
Creating effective environmental communication strategies
2026
Oepen, Manfred |
Southey, Sean |
This guide offers conservation professionals a straightforward, ten-step guide for designing and delivering strategic communication that drives measurable conservation impacts. Written for government focal points, NGO staff, scientists, private-sector partners, community organisers, and the communication specialists who support them, the guide positions communication as a core management tool rather than a last-minute public relations add-on.
Diseñar y manejar áreas protegidas y conservadas para promover la conservación de los ecosistemas de aguas continentales y la biodiversidad
2026
Moberg, Tara |
Abell, Robin |
Dudley, Nigel |
Harrison, Ian |
Kang, Shiteng |
Rocha Loures, Flavia |
Shahbol, Natalie |
Thieme, Michele L. |
Timmins, Hannah |
Aplicando el Estándar Global de la UICN para Soluciones basadas en la Naturaleza (SbN) en el altiplano de Guatemala: Estudio de caso
2025
Fernandez, Manuela |
Monterroso Rivas, Ottoniel |
Domínguez, Dafne |
Ramirez, O. |
Franco, Vanessa |
Coy, Lourdes |
Calvo-Solano, Oscar |
Puac, Marvin |
Joj, Eliazar |
López, Ronal |
Leiva, Raúl |
Este documento es resultado del trabajo conjunto entre la Comisión de Gestión de Ecosistemas (CGE) y la Oficina Regional para México, América Central y el Caribe (ORMACC), dos de los pilares de la UICN. La CGE y ORMACC han colaborado en distintos temas en la región, en la implementación de proyectos, en procesos de capacitación y fortalecimiento institucional, con aportes científicos, entre otros.
Applying the IUCN Global Standard on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the Guatemalan Highlands: Case study
2025
Fernandez, Manuela |
Monterroso Rivas, Ottoniel |
Domínguez, Dafne |
Ramirez, O. |
Franco, Vanessa |
Coy, Lourdes |
Calvo-Solano, Oscar |
Puac, Marvin |
Joj, Eliazar |
López, Ronal |
Leiva, Raúl |
This case study presents the self-assessment process for the Resilient Highlands Project, guided by the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The assessment focused on the project’s theory of change, which includes water and soil management and conservation practices for the long-term sustainability of the hydrological cycle in the Guatemalan Highlands.
A guide to nature-based leadership
2026
Charles, C. |
A guide to nature-based leadership: An ecological approach offers a hopeful path to organisational development and leadership. The publication describes the emerging field of nature-based leadership, its importance, its characteristics, and how to implement it. Nature-based leadership is leadership that draws from nature itself.
Gajah guidelines: IUCN SSC AsESG technical report series
2025
A compilation of nine working group reports.
Biodiversity and agriculture in the Mediterranean region
2025
Juffe-Bignoli, Diego |
Maas, Bea |
Maxted, Nigel |
Jimenez, R. |
Wanger, Thomas Cherico |
Gosling, Joe |
Herrera, José M. |
Kettle, Chris J. |
Macfarlane, Nicholas B.W. |
Magos Brehm, Joana |
Rey, Pedro J. |
Toledo-Hernández, Manuel |
Yazbek, Mariana |
Weaver, Faye M. |
Muñoz Cañas, Mercedes |
Numa, Catherine |
This report, Biodiversity and agriculture in the Mediterranean region: A species conservation perspective, is designed to inform policymakers, conservation practitioners, and stakeholders across the Mediterranean region. Its purpose is to highlight the current challenges posed to biodiversity by intensive agricultural pressures, while identifying solutions and opportunities to reconcile biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture.