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 ...

In February 2024, the Spain Species Specialist Group (EsSSG) was officially established—the first national group of its kind within the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC). This milestone marks ...

16 years ago, Mr Manaswut Chusaeng posted a picture of a fish he didn’t recognise on Panthip - a popular discussion forum in Thailand – requesting someone to help him identify the species. Despite the ...

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 ...

The IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions lists the Criteria and Indicators, as adopted by the 98th Meeting of the IUCN Council in 2020.

IUCN emphasizes the need to address the fundamental connections between plastic pollution, biodiversity loss and human health as intertwined issues. In this Policy Brief from 4 August, 2025, IUCN ...

Jon Paul Rodríguez has been working for the conservation of Venezuelan species and ecosystems since he was a biology undergraduate at Universidad Central of Venezuela (UCV) in the late eighties. With ...

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 ...

For the second session of the Preparatory Commission for the Conference of the Parties to the Agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine ...