Crossroads blog | 22 Feb, 2022
To save the addax antelope, the oil sector and government must work together with conservationists
The addax desert antelope may be the world’s rarest hoofed mammal, with as few as 100 animals left in the wild. Despite oil exploration and extraction in and around their last remaining habitat, conservation efforts can still save the species from extinction if government agencies, big business…
Blog Crossroads | 22 Feb, 2022
L’antilope addax du désert est peut-être le mammifère ongulé le plus rare du monde, avec seulement 100 individus restant à l’état sauvage. Malgré la prospection et l’extraction pétrolière à l’intérieur et autour de leur dernier habitat, des efforts de conservation peuvent encore sauver l’espèce…
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Animals, fungi and plants are essential to a healthy planet, but growing pressures from human activities are increasingly putting them at risk of extinction. Understanding the health of the world’s biodiversity is essential to inform and guide conservation action. IUCN is at the forefront of the…
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Species are the fundamental components of biodiversity and we rely on their survival for our own existence. However, our current biodiversity crisis is so severe that conservation activities are essential for the survival of many different species. From in situ and ex situ species recovery…
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Every year, millions of tons of plastic end up in our ocean and rivers. However, plastics are only one type of pollution driving the decline in the health of our global ocean. The ocean is also threatened by eutrophication (nutrient load), sediment load, light pollution, marine resource…
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
IUCN's work on climate change in the ocean has been centred around furthering understanding the science of climate change threats to the ocean: ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, marine heatwaves, as well as the cumulative affects of these individual ocean stressors and the risk this…
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Nature-based Solutions for cities
Rapid urbanisation is placing mounting pressure on the ecosphere but carries promises of renewal - an opportunity to reimagine the built environment and, by extension, our very civilisation. Nature-based solutions can help cities to realise this opportunity.
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
Governance of natural resources represents a significant challenge to achieving sustainable development.
Law is the most effective tool we have to influence behaviour, coordinate action and achieve public goals such as conservation. It is therefore fundamental to fair…
Page | 04 Feb, 2022
IUCN is the foremost authority for the classification, monitoring and conservation of endangered species worldwide. The Global Marine and Polar Programme (GMPP) supports the work of the Species Survival Commission for all issues threatening the conservation status of marine species.