A groundbreaking assessment has officially recognised four distinct giraffe species, overturning previous classifications of the world’s tallest land mammal as a single species. The taxonomic review, ...

The fifth resumed session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee on an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2), concluded ...

Global Plastics Treaty talks hit setback: more than a plastic pollution crisis, latest Chair’s Text draft sparks dismay – yet there is still hope with one day left ...

Ethics The IUCN WCEL Ethics Specialist Group is a global network of practitioners and scholars from across disciplines seeking to (1) highlight the ethical issues in biodiversity conservation and ...

Recognizing the urgent need for effective conservation in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement establishes a framework for ...

A distinct subspecies of elephants living on the island of Borneo has been classified as Endangered in today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. "A fundamental role of the IUCN Red ...

Rwanda is the Land of a Thousand Hills, but are these hills still healthy and productive? This is the story of how a small east African country took the unprecedented initiative to restore lands that ...

The landmark legal proceedings before the ICJ could clarify what legal responsibilities States have to fight climate change.

A new report reveals strong evidence that regenerative agriculture works, showing surprising returns. Regenerative agriculture secures supply, strengthens livelihoods and sequesters carbon, delivering ...

Gland, Switzerland, 8 June 2017 (IUCN) – Overfishing and the degradation of coral reefs across the Caribbean and Pacific islands are pushing many fish, including food sources like tunas and groupers, ...

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 ...

The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction.