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Ministers commit to protecting the world’s largest tropical peatland
26.03.2018

Commitments to conserve peatlands in the Congo basin were announced on Friday, 23 March 2018 as the Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia signed the Brazzaville Declaration at the third meeting of the Global Peatland Initiative,...

IUCN Director General's statement on World Water Day 2018
22.03.2018

From Cape Town to Bangalore, water shortages are a growing global menace, driven by rising demand worldwide and a warming climate. As the search for practical, cost-effective solutions intensifies, we cannot afford to ignore the important contribution nature...

IUCN dismayed as Philippines seeks to declare UN Special Rapporteur a ‘terrorist’
10.03.2018

The International Union for Conservation of Nature expresses its strong condemnation and grave concern at reports that UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, has been targeted by her Government and tagged as a “...

IUCN Director General's statement on International Women's Day 2018
08.03.2018

This year, Women’s Day takes on new significance, as a wave of women step forward demanding their rights, equal treatment and an end to denigrating and discriminatory behaviour, sexual harassment and violence. We are seeing, for the first time, at a global...

Loss of old trees threatens survival of wood-dependent beetles – IUCN Red List
05.03.2018

Brussels, 5 March 2018 (IUCN) – Almost a fifth (18%) of European saproxylic beetles assessed so far are at risk of extinction due to ongoing decline in large veteran trees across Europe, a new IUCN report has found.

IUCN Director General's Statement on World Wildlife Day
01.03.2018

World Wildlife Day provides a poignant opportunity to reflect on how to ensure peaceful coexistence between humans and wildlife – including the world’s most charismatic predators.

Lacoste and IUCN join forces to champion the cause of threatened species
28.02.2018

Global fashion designer Lacoste announces partnership with IUCN’s SOS – Save Our Species Programme at Paris fashion show

IUCN at 70: knowledge and experience for today’s challenges
22.02.2018

IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, IUCN has launched a new blog, where IUCN Members and partners will debate topical conservation issues, alongside a series of events to...

Indonesia’s last frontier: indigenous peoples’ rights key to forest preservation
19.02.2018

The forests of Papua in Indonesia have been referred to as a last frontier, and those that live in and around them are instrumental in their future. Clarifying and codifying rights to tenure and management may be the key to keeping these forests...

New research reveals a global rise in emerging invasive alien species
05.02.2018

IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) has contributed to research published today in the journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’, which highlights the urgent need for governments to develop measures to control the spread of...

IUCN welcomes first-of-kind World Rowing pledge to avoid impacts on natural World Heritage
25.01.2018

The World Rowing Federation FISA today became the first sporting body to announce its commitment to ensuring that activities under its control will not damage natural World Heritage sites, which IUCN monitors as the official advisory body on nature to the...

An economist's view of forest landscape restoration
17.01.2018

The Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology has proven effective for countries in planning their restoration actions. A large part of this process consists of comparing the costs and benefits of different restoration options, the...

Achieving successful conservation plans: revised Guidelines for Species Conservation Planning
05.01.2018

The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) has released its revised Guidelines for Species Conservation Planning, which aim to ensure conservationists can develop appropriate and realistic conservation plans for species in the current era of profound...

IUCN Statement to UN Environment Assembly, 2017
06.12.2017

On 6 December, during the third session of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, IUCN Director General Inger Andersen delivered IUCN’s official statement on how addressing pollution is essential to achieving the...

Unsustainable food systems threaten wild crop and dolphin species – IUCN Red List
05.12.2017

Tokyo, Japan, 5 December 2017 (IUCN) – Species of wild rice, wheat and yam are threatened by overly intensive agricultural production and urban expansion, whilst poor fishing practices have caused steep declines in the Irrawaddy Dolphin and Finless Porpoise,...

Protected areas across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific boosted with €60 million investment
28.11.2017

The European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States have invested €60 million in the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme over the next six years – making it one of the largest EU biodiversity...

IUCN statement to UN Climate Change Conference 2017
17.11.2017

During the 16 November plenary session of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany (COP23), IUCN Director General Inger Andersen delivered IUCN’s official statement on nature’s valuable contributions in addressing climate change. Read the...

Number of natural World Heritage sites affected by climate change nearly doubles in three years – IUCN
13.11.2017

Bonn, Germany, 13 November, 2017 (IUCN) – The number of natural World Heritage sites threatened by climate change has grown from 35 to 62 in just three years, with climate change being the fastest growing threat they face, according to a report released today...

Ancient ferns highly threatened in Europe – IUCN Red List
27.10.2017

Brussels, 27 October 2017 (IUCN) – A fifth of European fern and lycopod species, a group of vascular plants that underpins healthy ecosystems, are threatened with extinction and declining, as a result of urbanisation and expanding infrastructure, according to...

IUCN welcomes WWF International to the IUCN Conservation Centre
10.10.2017

IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, today welcomed WWF International to its new office space at the IUCN Conservation Centre in Switzerland.

IUCN and WWF congratulate TRAFFIC on its new governance arrangements which will guide future action on wildlife trade
27.09.2017

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) congratulate TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, on the newly announced revised board structure and trustees appointed to guide its work to combat wildlife...

Paris Agreement only chance for coral reef survival – IUCN
22.09.2017

Limiting global warming to below 2°C in line with the Paris Agreement provides the only chance for the survival of coral reefs, warns David Obura, Chair of the International Union for Conservation of  Nature (IUCN)’s Coral Reef Specialist Group, writing...

Severe threats to biodiversity from neonicotinoid pesticides revealed in latest scientific review
20.09.2017

Neonicotinoid pesticides pose severe threats to ecosystems worldwide, according to an update to the world’s most comprehensive scientific review of the ecological impacts of systemic pesticides released by IUCN's Task Force on Systemic Pesticides (TFSP)...

Once-abundant ash tree and antelope species face extinction – IUCN Red List
14.09.2017

North America’s most widespread and valuable ash tree species are on the brink of extinction due to an invasive beetle decimating their populations, while the loss of wilderness areas and poaching are contributing to the declining numbers of five African...

World gears up to boost ocean protection as global congress opens in Chile
04.09.2017

Protecting the ocean from growing threats so that it can continue to feed communities around the world is the focus of the Fourth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC4), hosted by Chile’s Ministry of the Environment and the International Union...