The recent meeting of the new IUCN Council reflected on the Union's collective achievements in 2025 and looked towards ...

California and Massachusetts have become Members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They join a ...

The coastal ecosystems of mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows contain large stores of carbon deposited by vegetation and various natural processes over centuries. These ecosystems sequester ...

The IUCN Programme 2026-2029 lays out specific goals and targets with the aim to achieve three impacts: Biodiversity (ecosystems, species and genetic diversity) has been effectively conserved, ...

All annual reports, including regional, thematic and commisions' annual reports, are accessible on our online Library Portal. You will find below our corporate annual reports, which summarise IUCN's ...

IUCN policies and procedures These principles are further elaborated in form of policies and procedures which enable IUCN to put these principles into practice IUCN. These are: The IUCN Code of ...

Daniel has a particular interest in Owston’s Civet conservation and in building capacity for species conservation in South-east Asian nationals. Currently based in France. Daniel is the co-chair for ...

Eighty five percent of sturgeon, one of the oldest families of fishes in existence, valued around the world for their precious roe, are at risk of extinction, making them the most threatened group of ...

Gland, Switzerland, 9 April 2026 (IUCN) – The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now both Endangered, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Climate change in Antarctica is ...

Conservation efforts have led to overall increases in the number of rhinos in Africa in recent years, but the continent’s rapidly growing human population – and the consequent loss of ecosystems – ...

What are these proceedings about? In short, they are about the legal obligations countries have to protect the climate, and, should they fail to comply with them, whether they could face any legal ...

Barcelona, Spain, 6 October, 2008 (IUCN) – The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, ...