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Innovative ecotourism, community fishery cooperatives and sustainable crocodile-egg harvesting are among the projects that have been recognized by the United Nations-backed Equator Initiative, which announced the 25 finalists for a prize for exceptional local achievements towards the alleviation of poverty in the equatorial region through conservation and use of biodiversity.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today welcomed the formation of a new task force that will explore how to eliminate the global shortage of doctors, nurses and other health workers, as estimates show another 4.3 million of these professionals are needed, especially in developing countries that are must vulnerable to medical crises.

Although the world’s forests are shrinking yearly overall, a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report released today offers cause for optimism, showing that in some regions, centuries of deforestation are being reversed thanks to effective forest management and economic prosperity.

The United Nations system would be far more effective at boosting development in poor countries if its operations were better streamlined and coordinated, the Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said today, calling for closer consultation with Member States to determine ways to achieve global anti-poverty targets.

Caribbean countries should take advantage of the window of opportunity offered by the rapid transition in the age structure of the region’s population, a United Nations report issued today recommends.

Blue helmets serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) have conducted a one-day medical outreach at the overcrowded Monrovia Central Prison, where more than 500 inmates are currently detained.

A fact-finding team led by the United Nations has begun looking into reports of a weekend attack on a Georgian Government position in the Upper Kodori valley in the north-west of the country.

As Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian-led Government and Serbia remain at an impasse on the future of the Albanian-majority Serbian province, a “timely conclusion” to the process to determine its final status is necessary, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security Council released today.

Deploring the recent wave of deadly violence in Somalia, especially in the capital, Mogadishu, Security Council members today underlined the need for the political process in the war-torn country to be as representative and inclusive as possible.

Military strategy has to be combined with political and development strategy in Afghanistan’s violence-torn south and south-eastern provinces, the top United Nations peacekeeping official said today.