Across societies the impacts of climate change affect women and men differently. Women are often responsible for gathering and producing food, collecting water and sourcing fuel for heating and ...
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, ...
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 ...
To deliver on our mission toward a just world that values and conserves nature, our work in Asia builds on IUCN's niche as the world's authority on biodiversity conservation, environmental governance, ...
What is the Antarctic Treaty? The Antarctic Treaty, signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by twelve nations active during the International Geophysical Year, established Antarctica as a zone ...
*2026-03-19: REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS - Technical Support to IUCN Med on Area-Based Conservation and CSO Conservation Action Prioritization. Closing date and time: 05 April 2026, 23:59 (CET) ...
California and Massachusetts have become Members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They join a ...
Plastics only began to be produced in large quantities following the second world war – but plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious threats humanity faces. By 2015, 60% of all ...
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, ...
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 Species TM.
Gland, Switzerland, 27 June 2024 (IUCN) –The Bornean elephant has been assessed as Endangered, due to threats from human activities, according to today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...
The IUCN Red List now includes 147,517 species, of which 41,459 are threatened with extinction. “Today’s Red List update highlights the fragility of nature’s wonders, such as the unique spectacle of ...
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