Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published ...

A new report from IUCN’s Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP) highlights a decade of transformative ...

The Guidelines aim to be equally relevant for any taxon on Earth. Recent experience has shown that no two planning situations are the same. So while the principles of planning may be constant, the ...

Sports have a unique opportunity to address the nature crisis. IUCN has been working with key partners on developing the Sports for Nature Initiative to contribute to global efforts to halt and ...

Review and enhance waste management strategies, legal and policy tools, community and private sector engagement and capacity building on best practice approaches to address the problem of marine… ...

Caves and karst areas present complex challenges to land managers in terms of their geodiversity and biodiversity. The goal of the Caves and Karst Working Group is to facilitate the conservation of ...

Due to their large size, swans have few natural predators, their main threat is human activity; either in the form of degradation/destruction of habitat, hunting and ...

Spiders and Scorpions are the best - known groups of a remarkably diverse class of arthropods, the arachnids. They are ubiquitous in terrestrial ecosystems, thriving in some of the harshest ... It is ...

The Fundão disaster in 2015 was one of the biggest environmental disasters in Brazil’s history. The collapse of the dam near the city of Mariana released around 39 million m3 of tailings, which ...

This group was established as one of the strategic pilots for the National Species Specialist Group (NSSG) of IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), as an interspecies “brain - trust” to support ...

The Draft International Covenant on Environment is an ongoing contribution of the International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) and the IUCN Environmental Law Programme (IUCN ELP) to provide a ...

IUCN leads on a series of initiatives and activities to enhance the role of the World Heritage Convention, and make it more effective and relevant to global conservation. These initiatives focus on ...