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 ...

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 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 ...

Through the Austrian Development Cooperation-funded project Restoring Ecosystems to Reduce Drought Risk and Increase Resilience, implemented in Burkina Faso, Georgia, and Kenya, IUCN put ecosystem ...

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 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 ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 11 December 2023 (IUCN) – Climate change threatens a growing number of species, from Atlantic salmon to green turtles, today’s update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

Despite these improvements, the IUCN Red List now includes 30,178 species threatened with extinction, and there is increasing evidence of the negative effects of climate change. There are now 112,432 ...

A new report ‘The World’s Forgotten Fishes’ reveals the extraordinary variety of freshwater fish. This variety accounts for over half of all the world’s fish species and is essential to the health of ...