Interviews

Arriving at the conference center

What they’re saying at the Congress

“You’ve heard about the financial institutions that needed to be rescued and were ‘too big to fail.’ How much bigger is our planet?”
Bharrat Jagdeo, Former President of Guyana 

09 Sep 2012 | Article

Celebrating half a century of cooperation

Celebrating half a century of cooperation

50 years ago IUCN and the Council of Europe decided to join hands signing a cooperation agreement. At the IUCN Congress they confirmed the willingness to continue the successful work in the fields of protected areas and ecological networks, threatened species and biological invasion. …  

09 Sep 2012 | Video
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Javed Jabbar, vice president of IUCN

Redefining development to reach sustainability

Javed Jabbar, vice president of IUCN since 1995, explains why it is crucial to redefine our definition of development, in order to make human activities sustainable. Environment has to be seen as a framework to development, rather than simply an add-on. …  

09 Sep 2012 | Video
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Ludovic Escoffier with a participant with the Mr Goodfish poster at congress

Mr Goodfish: helping consumers make the right choice

"If you want to keep on eating fish, you need to choose the right fish today". This is the message promoted by the Mr Goodfish campaign to fish lovers at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. …  

09 Sep 2012 | Audio

Julia Miranda Londono, WCPA Regional Chair for South America

Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia recibe dos premios

La directora de Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, Julia Miranda, y el jefe del Parque del Paramillo, Antonio Martínez Negrete, fueron premiados por la UICN debido a la excelencia en sus tareas de protección de parques. …  

09 Sep 2012 | Article
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Mohammed Moosa, former President of IUCN; Camilla Toulmin, Director International Institute for Environment and Development and Michael Mack, CEO of Syngenta at the World Leaders Dialogue

Nous pouvons nourrir le monde de façon durable

Le climat changeant et la biodiversité en déclin repoussent les limites de l’approvisionnement en nourriture et, plus largement, de la sécurité des hommes. C’est pourquoi, sachant que la population humaine devrait atteindre 9 milliards en 2050, la question de l’approvisionnement alimentaire est un sujet très débattu, qui est au cœur du deuxième Dialogue avec les Leaders mondiaux organisé aujourd’hui au Congrès mondial de la nature de l’UICN 2012. …   | English | Spanish

08 Sep 2012 | Audio
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Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.

Au-delà des champs pétroliers, un domaine de rêve

Dans un des hauts-lieux de la richesse biologique globale, qui est aussi le domaine de vastes champs pétroliers, se dessine une nouvelle voie pour conserver les forêts. …   | English | Spanish

08 Sep 2012 | Audio

Cyttaria espinosae. One of the "golf ball" fungi, a remarkable group of about ten species known only from Argentina, Australia, Chile and New Zealand

De peur d’oublier : agiter l’étendard des champignons

Depuis des décennies, plantes et animaux captent l’attention de nombreux environnementalistes. Cette même attention devrait s’étendre à un groupe extrêmement important mais généralement oublié : les champignons. L’Initiative mondiale Liste rouge des champignons a l’intention d’inverser cette tendance et d’attirer l’attention des gens sur le sort réservé à ce règne unique. …   | English | Spanish

08 Sep 2012 | Article

Javed Jabbar, vice president of IUCN

IUCN, "an almost perfect model of global democracy"

Javed Jabbar, vice president of IUCN since 1995, speaks about the outcomes of the IUCN World Conservation Congress and the uniqueness of IUCN, with its extensive democratic processes and its specific position in the conservation field. …  

08 Sep 2012 | Video
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Lori Anna Conzo, IFC expert

Pushing private sector biodiversity performance

IUCN spoke to Lori Anna Conzo of the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group, who took part in the dialogue  'Scaling up and spreading best policy practice for business solutions' here at the Congress. She tells us about the Performance Standards the IFC has developed to help companies in all sectors address biodiversity concerns. …  

08 Sep 2012 | Audio