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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global extinction risk status of animal, fungus and plant species. Open to all, it is used by governmental bodies, non-profit organisations, businesses and individuals.
Story | 04 May, 2022
Important Shark and Ray Areas news
The IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group has developed the foundations for an expert-driven innovative approach to ensure that discrete portions of habitats, critical to shark species, are delineated and used in various place-based conservation and management initiatives…
Story | 30 Mar, 2022
The War Between Russia and Ukraine – An Environmental Disaster
CEESP News: Ritu Dhingra, IUCN CEESP Regional Vice Chair for South and East Asia.
Who will wear the burnt–the speechless lifeforms through no fault of their own? War always brings calamity and strife. When human beings, Homo sapiens, “The Wise Man,” and the most evolved species on this…
Press release | 09 Dec, 2021
世界中で湿地が消失,トンボ類が絶滅の危惧に - IUCNレッドリスト
2021年12月9日,スイス,グラン発(IUCN) – 湿地の破壊により,世界中でトンボ類の減少が起きている.本日の『IUCN絶滅危惧種レッドリスト™』最新版での初めての地球規模でのトンボ類評価で明らかになった.トンボ類の減少は,それらが繁殖する沼沢地や自然河川の広範な消失の徴候である.湿地の消失はほとんどが持続不可能な農業と都市化により引き起こされている.
Comunicado de prensa | 09 Dec, 2021
La desaparición de los humedales amenaza a las libélulas en todo el mundo - Lista Roja de la UICN
Gland, Suiza, 9 de diciembre de 2021 (UICN) - La destrucción de los humedales está provocando un declive de las libélulas en todo el mundo, según la primera evaluación mundial de estas especies publicada en la actualización de hoy de la Lista Roja de la UICN de Especies…
Communiqué de presse | 09 Dec, 2021
La disparition des zones humides menace les libellules dans le monde entier - Liste rouge de l’UICN
Gland, Suisse, 9 décembre 2021 (UICN) - La destruction des zones humides provoque un déclin des libellules dans le monde entier, selon la première évaluation mondiale de ces espèces publiée aujourd’hui dans l’actualisation de la Liste rouge de l’UICN des espèces menacées™. Leur…
Press release | 08 Dec, 2021
Dragonflies threatened as wetlands around the world disappear - IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 9 December 2021 (IUCN) – The destruction of wetlands is driving the decline of dragonflies worldwide, according to the first global assessment of these species in today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Their decline is symptomatic of the…
Story | 08 Dec, 2021
CEESP News: by Melanie Zurba and Anastasia Papadopoulos *
In this article, we present systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature on Indigenous participation in Global Environmental Governance (GEG) forums, and focus on the specific questions: (1) what GEG forums include Indigenous…
Press release | 08 Dec, 2021
IUCN Rode Lijst: Libellen bedreigd nu wetlands over de hele wereld verdwijnen
Gland, Zwitserland, 9 december 2021 (IUCN) - De vernietiging van wetlands is de oorzaak van de wereldwijde achteruitgang van libellen, zo blijkt uit de eerste wereldwijde beoordeling van deze soorten in de vandaag ge-update Rode Lijst van Bedreigde Soorten™ van de IUCN. Hun…
Story | 06 Dec, 2021
Endangered Caspian Seal Habitat Awarded Important Marine Mammal Area Status
Today, the IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas, a joint task force of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the World Commission on Protected Areas, announces that Caspian seals have been awarded three Important Marine Mammal Areas, or IMMAs, as part of a tranche of 14 new IMMAs…