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Media registration now open for IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially opened media registration for the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025, set to take place in Abu Dhabi from 9 to 15 October ...
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IUCN launches 11 new SOS Lemurs Phase II projects in Madagascar
Conservationists, government officials, and civil society organisations gathered at Panorama Andrainarivo, Madagascar to celebrate the launch of the first SOS Lemurs Phase II selected projects, a ...
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Establishment of a third fish conservation zone in the Sittaung River, Myanmar
The Sittaung River flows from central Myanmar into the Gulf of Mottama and features a distinctive funnel shape at the estuary. The interaction between the river’s outflow and tidal movements creates a ...
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IUCN Med supports regional collaboration on biodiversity and fisheries monitoring at the CORMON Meeting in Athens
The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (IUCN Med) participated in the Meeting of the Ecosystem Approach Correspondence Group on Monitoring (CORMON) Biodiversity and Fisheries, held in Athens on ...
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Spain and IUCN strengthen collaboration to promote biodiversity conservation as a driver of sustainable transformation
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) have reaffirmed their joint commitment to ...
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IUCN Red List Update: Global Impacts, Regional Statuses, and the Way Forward
Globally, the newest additions have found the number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List to surpass 1,000. The updates to the IUCN Red List have placed 482 additional species of fungi, bringing the ...
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New frontiers for agri-food transformation
IUCN attended the Annual Conference of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture, hosted at the Square in Brussels on April 1st. Centred on the theme "Exploring New Frontiers for Agri-Food System ...
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Conservationists joining forces in a plan to save highly threatened cacti
A new conservation plan outlines measures to support the recovery of Copiapoa cacti, a highly threatened group of plants found only in Chile’s hyper-arid Atacama Desert. This plan is the result of a ...
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Bridging Animal Culture, Conservation and Traditional Knowledge in the 21st Century
The 25th Biennial Conference of the Society of Marine Mammalogy, held in Perth, Western Australia, in November 2024, brought together over 1,300 participants from 80 countries. The theme, "Culture and ...
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Phase Two of Tech4Nature Jaguar Protection Project Launched in Mexico
Merida, Mexico, April 9, 2025 At the 2025 Tech4Nature Summit today, Huawei, International Union of Conservation for Nature (IUCN), and local partners launched Phase Two of the Mexico Tech4Nature ...
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Sri Lanka's second largest lagoon to explore new ecosystems approach for fisheries management
Located in the West of the highly productive Bay of Bengal, Sri Lanka has relied on fishing both as a source of food and protein and as an employer. Puttalam, home to the second largest lagoon in Sri ...