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IUCN welcomes International Court of Justice's historic climate change Advisory Opinion
Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States to protect the ...
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IUCN calls for concrete solutions to scale up wetland protection and restoration at Ramsar COP15
As wetlands continue to be among the most imperilled ecosystems on Earth, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the ...
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Stewards in action: Scaling up Indigenous-led conservation on the ground, influencing global policy and enabling direct access to finance
Kick-starting PODONG Indigenous Peoples Initiative in TanzaniaFrom Indigenous Peoples’ leadership in territorial conservation ...
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From rainforests to reefs: New World Heritage Sites signal conservation breakthroughs
A refuge for the Western chimpanzee, pygmy hippopotamus and many other globally threatened species, Gola-Tiwai represents one ...
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A renaissance for nature as the World Heritage Committee closes in Paris
After a ten-day marathon meeting - with only the French National Holiday (on the 14th July), and its amazing fireworks to ...
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New IUCN WCPA report charts the course for establishing Marine ...
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vital role in climate resilience by providing natural defences for coastal regions and offering low-stress zones for marine life to adapt. At the same time, MPAs ...
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IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management 2021-2025
The Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) includes more than 1,600 volunteer ecosystem management experts from around the globe. Membership in the Commission on Ecosystem Management is open to any ...
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IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology - resource | IUCN
The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is a comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features. This new typology helps identify the ...
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IUCN welcomes today’s Advisory Opinion on “Climate Emergency and ...
San Jose, Costa Rica, July 3, 2025 – The Advisory Opinion (OC-32/25) in response to the request by the Republics of Colombia and Chile was publicly read today by the President of the Inter-American ...
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France and IUCN celebrate 20 years of partnership by signing new ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the French government have commemorated 20 years of partnership with a high-level event marking two decades of joint action for nature and ...
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IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group
The mission of our IUCN SSC Firefly Specialist Group is to identify and work to conserve threatened firefly species around the world. Specific goals are to: assess Red List status for 2000+ firefly ...
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Guidelines for reintroductions and other conservation translocations ...
These guidelines are designed to be applicable to the full spectrum of conservation translocations. They are based on principle rather than example and are designed to provide guidance on the ...