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Sustainably managed mangroves can provide ecosystem services such as coastal protection, food and medicines as well as carbon storage, positively impacting both biodiversity and human well-being. The IUCN Global Standard for NbS provides a tool to help ensure that projects labelled as Nature-based Solutions - for example through restoration of mangroves - do indeed deliver the anticipated benefits to both society and biodiversity. Photo: Maxwell Ridgway / Unsplash

IUCN Standard to boost impact of nature-based solutions to global challenges
02.02.2022
Photo: IUCN

IUCN statement on the inscription of Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex onto the World Heritage List
29.07.2021
The California condor Green Status assessment confirmed that rigorous conservation action prevented the species from going extinct. Photo: Eric Kolb / CC BY-NC

IUCN’s New “Green Status of Species” Measures Impact of Conservation Action
28.07.2021
Photo: Célia Zwahlen

IUCN’s call for action on fast-deteriorating Great Barrier Reef backed, despite no danger listing
23.07.2021
Photo: Pixabay

IUCN Director General’s open letter ahead of the G20 Environment Ministers’ Meeting
20.07.2021
Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo Photo: IUCN / Hervé Lethier

Salonga National Park in DR Congo removed from World Heritage in Danger List
19.07.2021
Golden snub-nosed monkey in Hubei Shennongjia, a World Heritage site in China Photo: IUCN / Bruce Jefferies

IUCN urges countries to protect World Heritage to achieve ambitions for halting biodiversity loss
16.07.2021
Great Barrier Reef, Australia Photo: Yanguang Lan on Unsplash

Four sites including Great Barrier Reef could become “World Heritage in danger”, while Selous may lose its status – IUCN advice
22.06.2021
Photo: Pexels from Pixabay

IUCN Director General's Statement for World Environment Day
05.06.2021
Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island, Japan Photo: IUCN / Ulrika Åberg

IUCN recommends two biodiversity sites in Georgia and Japan for the World Heritage List
04.06.2021
Photo: IUCN

IUCN Director General's statement to P4G Seoul Summit
31.05.2021
Photo: IUCN

World’s leading environmental event opens in 100 days
26.05.2021
Cape Tribulation, Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia Photo: Manny Moreno on Unsplash

IUCN Director General’s Statement for International Day for Biological Diversity
21.05.2021
Nearly 17% of the planet's land areas are protected today. While the overall quality of the protected area network must be improved, there are exemplary, effective sites such as Al Shouf Cedar Reserve in Lebanon, which has achieved the IUCN's coveted Green List status. Photo: IUCN / James Hardcastle

World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve
19.05.2021
Lee Talbot served as Director General of IUCN from 1980 to 1982. Photo: IUCN Photo Library / © WWF / Michèle Dépraz

A tribute to Lee Merriam Talbot (1930 – 2021)
17.05.2021
The Open Project Portal allows open, comprehensive public access to data on IUCN's work in over 125 countries and territories. Photo: IUCN

New IUCN Open Project Portal to increase transparency and accountability
12.05.2021
Photo: IUCN

IUCN World Conservation Congress to offer remote participation
29.04.2021
A Yemeni girl lives with her family in a camp for displaced people fleeing the hell of war in the city of Taiz, Yemen Photo: akramalrasny / Shutterstock.com

Sustainable management of natural resources can reduce risk of armed conflict – IUCN report
28.04.2021
The Swiss National Park becomes Switzerland's first IUCN Green List site. Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) are among the park's most iconic species. Photo: Hands Lozza / Swiss National Park

Ten protected areas in Switzerland, France and Italy enter IUCN Green List
20.04.2021
Prince Philip at the 16th General Assembly of IUCN in Madrid (November 1984) Photo: IUCN Photo Library / © Imagen Fotografos

IUCN mourns the passing of HRH Prince Philip
12.04.2021
Removing threats to wildlife from unsustainable crop and timber production would reduce the global extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrate species by 40%, according to the new STAR metric. Photo: Nico Boersen, Pixabay

Transforming crop and timber production could reduce species extinction risk by 40%
08.04.2021
Photo: Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash

IUCN Global Youth Summit on nature to be held online from 6 to 16 April
06.04.2021
The African forest elephant (loxodonta cyclotis) is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The species occurs in the tropical forests of Central Africa, and a range of habitats in West Africa. Photo: Frank af Petersens, Save the Elephants

African elephant species now Endangered and Critically Endangered - IUCN Red List
25.03.2021
Protected areas in many parts of the world provide a refuge to some of the planet's most threatened species. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many of them to reduce their activities due to revenue losses. Photo: Jerome Starkey

COVID-19 fallout undermining nature conservation efforts - IUCN publication
11.03.2021
Photo: © Ana Grillo

New IUCN initiative urges governments to invest in nature as part of their recovery from the global pandemic
05.03.2021

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