The International Union for Conservation of Nature, Regional Office for West Asia, is pleased to announce the addition of six ...

The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% ...

The global population is 7.8 billion people and growing. Population growth and increasing per capita wealth is driving up the demand for food, while demand for biofuel, biomaterials and other ...

Ethics The IUCN WCEL Ethics Specialist Group is a global network of practitioners and scholars from across disciplines seeking to (1) highlight the ethical issues in biodiversity conservation and ...

Four of the six species of flamingo are of conservation importance. Three species are listed as Near Threatened and one as Vulnerable. Three species show declining population trends currently. As all ...

The Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development, but this cannot be achieved by conservationists alone. The IUCN Congress is the place to ...

No. Title 36 Guidance on other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), (2024) 35 Building trust between rangers and communities (2024) 34 Recognising territories and areas conserved by ...

Location: The Indo-Burma Hotspot, comprising all non-marine parts of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, plus parts of southern China. With its high levels of plant and animal endemism ...

The IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions lists the Criteria and Indicators, as adopted by the 98th Meeting of the IUCN Council in 2020.

Drylands are ecosystems, such as rangelands, grasslands and woodlands, which occupy over 40% of the terrestrial surface, and are characterised by high temporal and spatial rainfall variability.