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Call for Applications: International Summer School 2024 in Samarkand

Students and young professionals from Central Asia can now apply for one of the 20th places at the International Summer School "Innovations for…

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Journey through the Eastern Mongolian Steppes: A Visual Story

Journey through the Eastern Mongolian Steppes: A Visual Story

The Eastern Mongolian Steppes represent the most intact large-scale temperate grassland on the planet. Spanning thousands of square kilometers, these…

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Monitoring-Trainings for rangers in the Zarafshan valley

Succow Foundation together with the local partners carried out biodiversity monitoring trainings in the protected areas in the Zarafshan Valley in…

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Congratulations: Kazakhstan 146th member of IPBES

The Succow Foundation is pleased to welcome Kazakhstan as the 146th member of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and…

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Preserving the Gobi desert

Conservationists and the Ministry of the Environment agree: the Gobi Desert is a treasury of biodiversity and is unrivalled worldwide in its pristine…

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Juliane Tübke, Beneath the Meadows (200823), 2023, photograph, dimensions variable

Sensing Peat now has its own website

Just in time for the beginning of spring...

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Jan Peters at Uganda Water & Environment Week 2024

Peatlands offer natur-based solution to climate change in Uganda

Peatlands are part of the solution to the major challenges Uganda is currently facing due to the water, environmental and climate change crisis.

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Visit of the pumpkin seed oil production site in the Village Argokhi (Three Alazani Rivers Biosphere Reserve). (c) Nika Malazonia

Small Grants Programme will empower sustainable initiatives in Three Alazani Rivers Biosphere Reserve

Several small grant projects will be launched in the Three Alazani Rivers Biosphere Reserve from Mai 2024.

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Dilijan National Park Photo: N. Malazonia/ Michael Succow Foundation

Start of the Dilijan Biosphere Reserve Development Project

Armenia is located in the Caucasus ecoregion, which is one of 25 "Global Biodiversity Hotspots" according to the criteria of Conservation…

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Plenary: (from left to right) H.E. Aziz Abdukhakimov, Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN Director General, H.E.  Bakhodur Sheralizoda, Chairman of Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, and Dr Bettina Hoffmann, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), and Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN Director General; Photo credit: Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of Uzbekistan

New IKI project “One Health Central Asia” launched

The Michael Succow Foundation is implementing partner of the new IKI initiative "One Health Central Asia". The project, coordinated by the IUCN, was…

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