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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
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The California condor Green Status assessment confirmed that rigorous conservation action prevented the species from going extinct.
Photo: Eric Kolb / CC BY-NC
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Photo: Célia Zwahlen
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Photo: IUCN
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Photo: Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash
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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
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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
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Photo: IUCN
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European Bison (Bison bonasus)
Photo: Rafał Kowalczyk
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Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Photo: Kristin Hoel / Unsplash
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Photo: Joel sauce do saucedo (pixabay)
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