On Wednesday 20 May the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a landmark resolution backing the findings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its July 2025 Advisory Opinion on State ...

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) ...

Every year, millions of tons of plastic end up in our ocean and rivers. However, plastics are only one type of pollution driving the decline in the health of our global ocean.

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 ...

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, ...

Europe faces enormous challenges in the years to come. These challenges include adapting to climate change and enhancing our resilience to natural disasters, providing food to more than 500 million ...

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 ...

An international consortium today announced a major update to the world's biodiversity hotspots, funded by the Hempel Foundation. The two-year initiative aims to generate detailed scientific data to ...

Last year, one of the most well attended of IUCN’s Vital Sites webinars was on the revision and launch of a new version of the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT). First published in 2002, ...

Windhoek, Namibia, 21 August 2025 (IUCN) – A groundbreaking assessment has officially recognised four distinct giraffe species, overturning previous classifications of the world’s tallest land mammal ...

Cambridge, UK, 1 April 2026 – The international community has reached an important global milestone, with 10.01% of the ocean now officially designated within protected and conserved areas. Whilst ...