Six Indigenous leaders from Africa, Asia and Latin America were recognised today as the inaugural Indigenous Peoples ...

IUCN has launched its first global strategy to tackle invasive alien species, one of the world’s greatest drivers of biodiversity loss and species extinctions. It sets out how IUCN’s Members, ...

For the first time, the world’s coral reefs have been assessed with the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems. The assessment covers ...

Mombasa, Kenya, 15 October 2026 – A global reassessment of reef-building corals has found that 44% of species are threatened ...

Southeast Asia and the Pacific (SEAP) is home to some of the world’s major remaining tropical primary forest areas. In 2024, SEAP’s forest-related economic activity was estimated at 135-226 billion ...

At UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, IUCN Europe brought together experts working across pastoralism, landscape and ecosystem restoration, sustainable land management, and agricultural policy from different ...

Under the WASOP – Pillar 3 project on the protection and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems in West Africa, IUCN PACO is launching a call for proposals to support the creation of new Marine ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) calls for urgent, ambitious greenhouse gas emission cuts in reaction to the stark findings of the ‘Limiting Overshoot’ report published today.

A new IUCN analysis of global land restoration achievements shows that over 124.3 million hectares are under restoration, rehabilitation or improved management worldwide – an area approximately twice ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has followed advice from IUCN, as the official advisor on nature, to inscribe seven new sites on the World Heritage list, expand one existing World Heritage site ...

Gland, Switzerland, 27 June 2024 (IUCN) –The Bornean elephant has been assessed as Endangered, due to threats from human activities, according to today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...