Summer Newsletter 2025

Our Summer Newsletter is now out and available to view online.

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Welcome message

ACIUCN wishes all our Members, Associates, Commissions experts, colleagues and friends a wonderful 2025, as we continue working together towards our vision of living in harmony with nature by 2050.

We have a full year of activities planned, including:

• Knowledge exchange forums for our NGO members across Australia

• Our mid-year Species Survival Symposium in Sydney

• The IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi in October

• A “taking action for nature” group fundraising and public engagement campaign

• Our regular series of informative webinars

We are currently compiling the report from our National Ecosystem Restoration Workshop held in Canberra, September 2024. The report is in the first draft stage and almost ready for the first round of consultations. We are aiming to release the final report in April 2025.

We also recently joined many members of our nature conservation community on the Bluesky social media platform. If you are on there and we haven’t followed you yet, please let us know: Join ACIUCN on Bluesky

We look forward to engaging with you all over the coming months and achieving positive outcomes for nature together.

Newsletter Contents:

Upcoming Events

• DATE TBC | Australian Species Survival Symposium

• FEB 19 | NGO Governance Exchange Network

• DATE TBC | NGO Executives Exchange Network

• OCT 9 - 15 | IUCN World Conservation Congress, Abu Dhabi

Closing Soon

• FEB 7 | Nominations close soon for IUCN President, Treasurer and Commissions Chairs and IUCN regional councillors.

• FEB 14 | Proposals for Sessions and Exhibits at World Conservation Congress closes.

• FEB 16 | Applications close for Asian Species Action Partnership’s NOW (Network of Women) Leadership Program

• FEB 18 | IUCN Global Standards for NbS (Nature based solutions) public survey closes

Member News and Events:

• Nature Conservation Council NSW Volunteer Information Session

Other IUCN and Commissions News

• IUCN open access publications

• IUCN WCPA appoints Young Professionals Network Global Coordinator

• IUCN Commission on Education and Communication News

2024 Annual Report

The 2024 ACIUCN Annual Report is now available to download and view.

2024 was a significant year for nature conservation nationally, globally and at ACIUCN.

We experienced a big year of positive organisational changes, events, collaborations and partnerships.

We are pleased to present our annual report showcasing our many activities in 2024.

View the Annual Report

Ecosystem Restoration Workshop

10-11 Sep | The Marion, Canberra

Ngunnawal Country

Thanks to the 125 restoration experts, practitioners, First Nations People and policy makers who joined us for 2 days on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra to:

• Identify priority degraded areas in Australia.

• Share and review current knowledge and frameworks for ecosystem restoration, identifying barriers, gaps and needs.

• Make recommendations for defining effective restoration in an Australian context.

• Contribute to a proposed system of values, principles, tools and approaches to prioritize ecosystems for effective restoration, including the need to partner with First Nations people.

• Identify financial mechanisms to build capacity, support and scale-up restoration.

• Build a roadmap of recommended actions for Australia to achieve our national restoration target.

What’s next?

The ACIUCN team will be compiling a report, synthesizing the participant feedback and recommendations made at the workshop.