As Parties to the Rio Conventions – the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially named Jean-Louis Billon as its newest Patron of Nature and the first from West Africa.

IUCN membership in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean serves as a regional platform for collective action that brings together territories, countries and decision-making levels in order to ...

A conservation biologist, Claudio is a Professor of Conservation Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Claudio is Deputy Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit ...

My area of research focuses on common hippo foraging behavior and population dynamics in response to changing environmental conditions. I have a particular interest in hippo telemetry. My current ...

Part I will be held virtually on 14 October 2026. Part II will take place in Xiamen, China, from 3 to 5 November 2026.

The global mandate for implementing Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to accelerate climate transformation has never been stronger. However, success depends on national capacities to scale up NbS ...

Earth’s ecosystems have evolved for millions of years, resulting in diverse and complex biological communities living in balance with their environment. Since the 16th century, human activity has ...

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 – ...

On Thursday 23 July, IUCN launched the first-ever Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions. Click here to download the document in English, French and Spanish and here for the press release. In two ...

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 ...

Nepal's wild tiger population has increased to 429, according to the National Tiger Census released on Wednesday by the Government of Nepal to mark Global Tiger Day in Kathmandu. The Department of ...