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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020 postponed
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the safety of participants and visitors, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the French government have decided to postpone the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020. Previously...
03.04.2020 -
South-western Back Rhino
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Conservation efforts bring cautious hope for African rhinos - IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 19 March 2020 (IUCN) – The African Black Rhino remains Critically Endangered, but its population is slowly increasing as conservation efforts counter the persistent threat of poaching, according to today’s update of the IUCN Red List of...
19.03.2020 -
Two women are lugging water pots on their head in Rajasthan, India. Due to the lack of piped water, women and girls in many parts of the world have to fetch water from its natural sources, exposing them to the threat of gender-based violence.
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Environmental degradation driving gender-based violence – IUCN study
Gland, Switzerland, 29 January 2020 (IUCN) – The degradation of nature can lead to gender-based violence including sexual assault, domestic violence and forced prostitution, according to a new IUCN study published today. Competition over increasingly scarce...
29.01.2020 -
The flightless, fast-running Guam Rail (Hypotaenidia owstoni) – the second bird in history to recover after being declared Extinct in the Wild, after the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus). Once widespread on the Pacific island of Guam, its numbers declined after the Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) was accidentally introduced at the end of World War Two. In 1987, the last wild Guam Rail was killed by this invasive predator. Thanks to a 35-year captive breeding programme, the Guam Rail is now established on the neighbouring Cocos Island. However, the bird is still classified as Critically Endangered – one step away from extinction.
Photo: Photo by Josh More (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Species recoveries bring hope amidst the biodiversity crisis - IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 10 December 2019 (IUCN) – Conservation efforts have led to improvements in the status of ten species, according to today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This includes the recovery of the Guam Rail, a bird previously...
10.12.2019 -
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Marine life, fisheries increasingly threatened as the ocean loses oxygen – IUCN report
Madrid, Spain, 07.12.2019 (IUCN) - The loss of oxygen from the world’s ocean is increasingly threatening fish species and disrupting ecosystems, a new IUCN report warns. Ocean oxygen loss, driven by climate change and nutrient pollution, is a...
07.12.2019 -
The IUCN Congress 2020 gives journalists the opportunity to interact with policy and business, top scientists and representatives of civil society, and with indigenous and youth organisations on the world’s most pressing biodiversity challenges.
Photo: Photograph by: IISD
Media registration now open for world’s leading environmental summit
Gland, Switzerland, 30 October 2019 (IUCN) – IUCN has opened media registration for the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020, the world’s largest and most inclusive environmental event that will drive global action towards a more sustainable future...
30.10.2019 -
The scimitar oryx or scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) is a species of Oryx; once widespread across North Africa; which has been assessed by the IUCN Red List as Extinct in the wild since 2000.
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IUCN calls for halt to species decline by 2030
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 October 2019 (IUCN) – IUCN has issued an urgent call to massively scale up species conservation action in response to the escalating biodiversity crisis. The Abu Dhabi Call for Global Species Conservation Action...
11.10.2019 -
The iconic Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is widely found across Europe. It has been assessed as Vulnerable.
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Over half of Europe’s endemic trees face extinction
Gland, Switzerland, 27 September 2019 (IUCN) – Over half (58%) of Europe’s endemic trees are threatened with extinction, according to assessments of the state of the continent’s biodiversity published today by the International Union for Conservation of...
27.09.2019 -
Okavango Delta, Botswana – Wetlands are valuable natural infrastructure for preventing damage from floods.
Photo: Mark Gnadt
Countries must use nature more in their climate commitments – IUCN report
Gland, Switzerland, 19 September 2019 (IUCN) – Countries are not fully taking into account the considerable potential of ecosystems such as mangroves and peatlands to tackle climate change in their commitments under the Paris Agreement, according to a report...
19.09.2019 -
Roloway Monkey (Cercopithecus diana)
Photo: © Russell A. Mittermeier
Unsustainable fishing and hunting for bushmeat driving iconic species to extinction – IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 18 July 2019 (IUCN) – Overfishing has pushed two families of rays to the brink of extinction, while hunting for bushmeat and habitat loss have led to the decline of seven primate species, according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List...
18.07.2019 -
The Gulf of California in Mexico is the only place on Earth where the vaquita can be found
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The looming extinction of the vaquita puts Gulf of California on World Heritage danger list
The World Heritage Committee today followed IUCN’s advice to list Mexico’s Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California as a World Heritage site in danger. The site’s population of vaquitas – the world’s smallest and most endangered species of...
03.07.2019 -
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One-year countdown to world’s leading biodiversity event begins
“Biodiversity is now on the international agenda to the same degree as the fight against climate change. It is essential to create an international dynamic in favour of biodiversity, with increased awareness and the involvement of the general public. By...
13.06.2019 -
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IUCN and Lacoste team up again to inspire support for threatened species
The Lacoste-IUCN partnership has launched its second awareness-raising campaign to support species conservation action worldwide.
16.05.2019 -
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Rewriting genes could have broad knock-on effects on nature – IUCN report
The emerging field of synthetic biology could affect nature in ways that go beyond single genetically engineered organisms, according to an IUCN report published today.
09.05.2019 -
Huascarán National Park natural World Heritage site in Peru
Photo: IUCN/Elena Osipova
Almost half of World Heritage sites could lose their glaciers by 2100
Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost half of World Heritage sites if business-as-usual emissions continue, according to the first-ever global study of World Heritage glaciers, co-authored by scientists from the International Union for...
30.04.2019
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