Story | 07 Jun, 2024
IUCN, the official advisory body on nature to UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, recommends the addition of four new sites to the prestigious World Heritage List for their outstanding natural value in Brazil, China, France and the UK. IUCN also recommends the extension of an existing serial site…
DG Statement | 07 Jun, 2024
IUCN Director General's Statement for World Ocean Day
The ocean is a world with three dimensions. The first is depth, from the tides lapping at our feet on a beach to the marine trenches that plunge far into a realm untouched by sunlight. The second is length, with waves that travel thousands of miles between North Pole and South. The third is…
Project | 01 Jun, 2020 - 31 Jul, 2023
NetworkNature - Multi-stakeholder platform for nature-based solutions
Press release | 26 Apr, 2024
A new study in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is environmental conservation successful, but that scaling conservation interventions up would be transformational for halting and reversing biodiversity loss, a crisis that leads to ecosystem…
Story | 08 Mar, 2024
Oma Tafua celebrates 20 years of whale research and conservation success
Oma Tafua (meaning “to treasure whales”) Kiwa Initiative project, a non-profit organisation in Niue, has achieved remarkable results in whale research. Between 2022 and 2023, the organisation documented over 70 individual humpback whales in Niue's catalogue, setting a record for the NGO and its…