Poaching of African rhinos has decreased since 2021, but the gains have been offset by other threats such as drought and ...

Plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and human health are interconnected issues that require coordinated responses across ...

July 2025, Indonesia’s Taman Wisata Perairan Laut Banda (Laut Banda MPA), a biodiversity hotspot in the heart of the Banda Sea, is taking decisive steps toward achieving the IUCN Green List Standard, ...

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 ...

In the last decade, poachers have killed almost 10,000 rhinos across Africa to feed the demand for horn on the black market. The IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG) exists to promote the ...

Recent major international reports have highlighted the alarming impact of food production systems on climate change, land and biodiversity. This report shows that common ground between the ...

Asian Rhinos are threatened by the loss of forest, grasslands and marshland, usually caused by logging, agriculture or house-building. The IUCN SSC Asian Rhino Specialist Group (AsRSG) fosters ...

The 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP15) to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands brought together ...

Today, on World Ranger Day 2025, IUCN honours the dedication and courage of rangers – our invaluable frontline defenders of ...

Cali, Colombia, 28 October 2024 (IUCN) – Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published in today’s update of the IUCN Red ...

The highly populated, semi-enclosed Mediterranean basin is one of the global hotspots for marine plastic pollution. Urgent and wide-ranging action is required to radically reduce the amounts of ...

Gland, Switzerland, 25 March 2021 (IUCN) - Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now ...