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	In the end, mixed feelings and full encouragement
	Human as it is, the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona left mixed emotions among participants on the decisions that will shape their work in the crucial next four years.

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Mission: Make a BIG difference

Interview with IUCN President-elect, Ashok Khosla

Thorny decisions left for the end

Most likely, it was not intentional. But the IUCN general assembly voted the most controversial resolution proposals at the very end of its 10-day-long and tiring congress, when numerous members were either exhausted or plainly absent.

Members to Khosla: Let's hit the grassroots

Now that they have voted, they want their cut. Members want newly-elected IUCN president Ashok Khosla to better involve grassroots organisations.

Beyond carbon footprints

Ramesh Jaura

Do those 8,000 tonne of carbon footprints staring at the IUCN’s Wold Conservation Congress participants in the face show the way beyond Kyoto?

Climate Change: Disaster of Disasters…

Hilmi Toros

The disaster is that the world is largely unprepared for disasters – or their aftermaths.

Quit whining: Africans advise their governments

Zarina Geloo

Africans expressed anger at their governments’ lackadaisical attitude towards climate change and massive poverty.

For rural poor, things are worse - World Resources Report

Julio Godoy

For the poorest people of the world, climate change and the catastrophes associated with it constitute an additional menace.

I need your Money…

Hilmi Toros

Since climate change is now a demonstrated fact, rather than a make-believe worst- selling fiction of a few years back, money is needed to forestall it and cure its ills.

Save a hippopotamus, and get development

Julio Godoy

Back in 1998, the 17 farmer and hunting communities of Wechiau, living along the Black Volta River in Ghana had neither schools nor drinking water or electricity.

Two to tango - financial crisis and climate change

Ramesh Jaura

Enter the global financial crisis. Exit climate change? That lingering apprehension is not shared by Pamela Cox.

Cars: Two sides of the same coin

Stanislaus Jude Chan

The contrast between the REVA car and the Toyota Eco-Driving display at the IUCN World Conservation Congress cannot be more striking.

Philips: Cleaning light & Image

Stanislaus Jude Chan

Innovative lighting solutions could potentially save up to 40 per cent of energy, sparing some 106 billion euros in energy costs annually, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 555 million tonnes, and cutting back on 1.5 billion barrels of oil, says Royal Philips Electronics a Dutch concern that, incidentally, sells them.

Sacred sites yearn for divine intervention

Zoltán Dujisin

One of the oldest protected natural sites, sacred sites that have religious significance, are threatened by conflicts, privatisation, mining and tourism even within officially-recognised natural parks. A book, Sacred Natural Sites, was released at the IUCN World Conservation Congress that provides basic guidelines to area managers.

Erratic climate patterns spreading diseases

Stanislaus Jude Chan

Climate change is wreaking havoc on wildlife, and causing a "potentially explosive situation" for both humans and animals in terms of health, according to wildlife conservation experts at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has identified 12 deadly pathogens - avian influenza, babesia and cholera - that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change, and potentially cause irreparable damage to human and wildlife health, as well as global economies.

Tight rope walk for small islands

Zoltán Dujisin

The 75,000 inhabitants of San Andres Island in Colombia do not want to choose between development and conservation - with good education these could go hand in hand. "We see man as part of the environment, we don't want to remove man from his territory, we want to introduce him there," Opal Bent Zapata, sub director for environmental management at the island told IPS TerraViva.

Do it our way: Mining company to environmentalists

Zarina Geloo

t was a group of unlikely bedfellows that met at IUCN’s World Conservation Congress’ meeting on indigenous people and the extractive industry.

Indigenous people: We too matter

Stanislaus Jude Chan

Indigenous peoples from across the world found the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress the right forum to discuss their traditional practices of adaptation to climate change.

Conservation, development and tourism threaten indigenous people

Rahul Kumar

“Ever since national parks and protected areas were introduced, people’s rights have been violated".

Barbie dolls talk science to people

Zarina Geloo

Taking the jargon out of science and letting it fly - literally from the trees is what Dr Nalini Nadkarni did when she created the Tree Top Barbie doll

Global crisis a "window of opportunity"

Julio Godoy

The global meltdown affecting the financial and banking system in most of the industrialized world, and the rediscovery of the state's power as saviour of last resort, are opening a window of opportunity for a new economic paradigm, that ends the short-sighted seek for high returns, typical of neoliberalism.

Guess what: mammals are in crisis

Alejandro Kirk

One in four mammals of planet Earth are at risk of disappearing forever, says the newest issue of "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species."

Conservation must be everybody’s business

TerraViva Team

Three streams feed Forum debates: Climate for Change, Healthy Environments and Healthy People

When Water is Bitter

Ramesh Jaura

Palestinian villagers slurp unsafe agricultural water rather than trusting water provided by an Israeli company.

Congress Big and Different

Hilmi Toros

The IUCN World Conservation Congress, considered a premier summit on the environment this year is big. And it's different.

Troubled waters ahead: French scientist

Zoltán Dujisin

Politically committed French maritime biologist Daniel Pauly received the 4th Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the IUCN World Conservation Congress with an emotional but a scathing indictment over the ruthless exploitation of the seas.

Advertising: The threat of excess

Alejandro Kirk

Many questioned the role of advertising agencies in creating a generation of consumers rather than responsible citizens at a debate on Monday at the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress. Some even questioned unsustainable products that advertisers sell.

Developing countries take the lead on protected areas

Rahul Kumar

A World Database on Protected Areas was launched by the UNEP and the IUCN that allows users to view comprehensive information on national parks and protected areas using Google Earth and to download data and compare it with other species and environmental data.

C4C: Climate For Change needed for climate change

IUCN

The world is changing more quickly than at any time in human history. Whether in the oceans, on land, or in the world’s climate, the impact of human activities on planet Earth is strikingly evident. The New Climate for Change stream at Congress will consider challenges and solutions.

Planned binational dam under fire

Marcela Valente - Tierramérica/IPS

Feeling the pressure of rising energy demand, the governments of Argentina and Brazil are taking a fresh look at old plans for the Garabí hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River.

Nairobi living costs the Earth

Najum Mushtaq/IPS

At its source in the hills of the Thogoto Forest, the Mbaghati river adds a gushing noise to the quiet landscape. Downstream it turns into a muddy brown sewage.

Vietnam: Paying for Ecosystems

Helen Clark/IPS

HANOI - Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), an environmental scheme now being trialled in this South-east Asian country, may serve as a model for the region, if found successful.

Letter from the publisher

Mario Lubetkin

Sri Lanka: ‘Animal tracks’ lead villagers out of poverty

Feizal Samath/IPS

KOULARA - An impoverished village in southern Sri Lanka is slowly pulling out of poverty by churning out terra cotta moulds of animal footprints for tea connoisseurs all over the world.

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TERRAVIVA TV

Farewell: TerraViva correspondents draw interesting conclusions.

Interviews

"We don't need to sell our soul"
IUCN DG Julia Marton-Lefevre speaks to TerraViva on the burning issues of this congress.

Save your logo, environment
A GEF campaign wants companies like Lacoste to do something to preserve real life crocodiles, says Gustavo Fonseca.

China is predating Africa's environment - US official
Interview with Claudia A. McMurray, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs

Governments should take lead in renewables: Shell CEO
Media has created a court of public opinion against Shell, says its CEO, Jeroen van der Veer talking to TerraViva.

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