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Monthly update from the world's largest community of environmental experts.
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Sharing benefits of genetic resources
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Securing fair, globally-regulated access to the earth’s genetic diversity and equitable sharing of the benefits it offers us is one of the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. A protocol was finally adopted in Nagoya. > Read more and listen to IUCN’s Biodiversity Policy Officer
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Good news for threatened species
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Simon Stuart, Chair of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission tells us which species are most in decline and require most urgent attention from the conservation community. > Read more and listen to Simon Stuart
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Interview
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IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre sums up what we have achieved during the International Year of Biodiversity. > Watch video
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Securing a safe passage for salmon
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IUCN experts are advising the Japanese on the removal of a series of dams that have hampered wild salmon migration in the Shiretoko World Heritage Site. > Read full story
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Can high fashion helps the high Andes?
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The growing demand for luxury clothing is helping to secure one of South America’s threatened species—the vicuña—but can it also secure the livelihoods of the poor Andean communities who produce vicuña fibre? > Read full story
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Buying land to save the species of Spain
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Some of Spain’s flagship species such as the Iberian lynx and brown bear are benefiting from the work of IUCN Member organization Fundació Caixa Catalunya. > Read full story
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What next?
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We ask prominent figures from around the world, representing both the public and the private sector, what they see as the greatest priorities for saving biodiversity after 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity. > Watch video
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A snapshot of some of the planet's species that we're working to save
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Atlas : biodiversity of the Francophonie
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The first-ever comprehensive analysis of the state of biodiversity in 67 countries of the Francophonie.
> Download PDF
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What job can beat that!
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A window on the work of Dr Alex Rogers, marine conservation specialist.
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Climate change deal in Mexico
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Governments at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, managed to approve a series of tangible if modest steps.
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