IUCN’s National, Regional and Interregional Committees can be very different in nature. Some of the Member Committees work to jointly implement projects, whereas others are predominantly vehicles for ...

The health of freshwater systems is core to the health of surrounding landscapes — but not nearly enough is being done to ...

A new report from IUCN’s Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP) highlights a decade of transformative ...

IUCN SSC Coral Specialist Group brings together leading scientists, practitioners and conservationists under the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature .

No. Title 35 Building trust between rangers and communities (2024) 34 Recognising territories and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) overlapped by protected areas ...

Spiders and Scorpions are the best - known groups of a remarkably diverse class of arthropods, the arachnids. They are ubiquitous in terrestrial ecosystems, thriving in some of the harshest ... It is ...

The Galápagos pink land iguana (Conolophus marthae) is categorised as Critically Endangered. The entire distribution of pink iguanas is within the protected area of the Galápagos National Park (GNP), ...

From 11 to 22 November 2024, IUCN will participate in the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Harold Jefferson Coolidge, born in Boston in 1904, was one of the founders of IUCN, a former president of the Union and its principal fundraiser from 1948 to the 1980s. He founded and chaired the ...

Wild caprinae, including sheep and goats, are an extremely valuable group of mammals. While most live in mountains, some inhabit desert grasslands, tropical forests or even arctic tundra. They range ...

The grasslands of the Northern Hemisphere form one of the largest terrestrial biomes. Spread over plains and mountains, they provide habitat for many plants and animals, and support key ecosystem ...

The golden monkey, Cercopithecus mitis kandti, an Endangered subspecies of blue monkey, is found in only two small populations in the central part of the Albertine ...