The 112th IUCN Council Meeting takes place in the historic colonial city of La Antigua Guatemala, from 28 to 30 January 2025.

Hosted by IUCN and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, in collaboration with the International Ranger Federation, Conservation Allies, Universal Ranger Support Alliance, and IUCN-US, the ...

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have caused an increase in global surface temperature of approximately 1°C since pre-industrial times. This has led to unprecedented mass coral bleaching events ...

The 112-page report, Guidance on OECMs, focuses on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs), which are managed areas that provide effective conservation of biodiversity – despite it ...

In December 2022, Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity will meet to determine the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Despite commitments made in 2010, biodiversity has further ...

Building resilience into mangrove conservation plans requires an understanding of how mangroves will respond to climate changes, what factors help them survive these changes, and, consequently, which ...

Gland, Switzerland, 8 January 2025 (IUCN) – The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% of the world’s freshwater fish ...

The Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI) was jointly developed by the Ramsar National Focal Points of the five countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam), and IUCN’s Asia ...

This document provides broad guidance on surveillance of infectious and non-infectious wildlife diseases, pathogens and toxic agents to assist in the implementation of a national surveillance ...

In April of 2024, in the furthest reaches of Chilean Patagonia and on the least trodden corners of the continent’s largest glacier, we found a dragon. It was hiding down a deep, blue crevasse, a few ...

The IUCN Green List sets the global benchmark for conservation excellence, offering a framework to ensure that protected areas achieve meaningful outcomes for both nature and people. It also serves as ...