IUCN Bangladesh - For the Media

Contact

Mahbubur Rahman Masum, Communication Officer, IUCN Bangladesh Country Office
House 11, Road 138, Gulshan 1, Dhaka 1212, Tel.+880-2-9890395; Fax.+880-2-9892854
E-mail: masumiucnbd.org

2006 Reuters-IUCN Environmental Media Awards

Reuters Foundation and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) have launched the 2006 Media Awards, a worldwide competition aimed at raising global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues, by encouraging excellence in environmental reporting worldwide.
www.iucn.org/reuters/
Contact: pressiucn.org

Press releases

We perdiodically release news on conservation issues. If you want to receive our news releases through email, please send your contact details to pressiucnbd.org.

Please visit our archive for recent press releases.
http://www.iucnbd.org/news/index.html

IUCN BANGLADESH PRESS RELEASES
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2006

Media briefs

IUCN Media Briefs explain key conservation and sustainable development issues. They offer reliable facts and figures on phenomena such as species extinction or climate change, and provide an overview of related IUCN activities. For updated briefs please visit http://www.iucn.org/en/news/media.htm

IUCN MEDIA BRIEFS
Species Extinction Media Brief	PDF Document - 38KB
Ecosystem Management Media Brief	PDF Document - 267KB
Protected Areas Media Brief // Areas Protegidas	PDF Document - 282KB
Johannesburg 2002 WSSD Media Brief	PDF Document - 42KB
Forests under Fire	PDF Document - 48KB
Ocean Blues Media Brief	PDF Document - 42KB
Sustainable Livelihoods Media Brief	PDF Document - 48KB
Water & Wetlands Media Brief	PDF Document - 38KB
Climate Change Media Brief	PDF Document - 40KB
EU Enlargement and Biodiversity Media Brief	PDF Document - 110KB
Energy and Enviroment Media Brief	PDF Document - 150KB

Facts

Below are links to some information resources of IUCN – The World Conservation Union and its members and partners. These websites provide basic information on the state of biodiversity and ecosystems and related topics.

Biodiversity
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species – http://www.iucnredlist.org/

Protected Areas
World Database on Protected Areas – http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdbpa/

World Heritage
World Heritage Sites – http://whc.unesco.org/

Wetlands Sites
Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) – http://www.wetlands.org/RSDB/

Water Resources
Watersheds of the World – http://www.waterandnature.org/eatlas/

Environmental Law
Gateway to Environmental Law (ECOLEX) – http://www.ecolex.org/ecolex/

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