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IUCN Director General’s message on World Wildlife Day
Today, on UN World Wildlife Day 2025, we come together to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on our planet—its beauty ...
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Salvation through harmony: Multilateralism revived with CBD COP16
A three-day meeting on the Convention on Biological Diversity that just wrapped up in Rome will go down in history as a ...
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IUCN supports locally led conservation plan in the Salween River basin
In a fragile and conflict-affected context, groundbreaking progress has been made to engage communities in environmental conservation in Myanmar’s Shan State. A local community-led organisation, Kyun ...
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IUCN webinars will present new guidance on the renewable industry’s role in achieving nature goals
The three webinars – on 6, 13, and 20 March – will help solar and wind developers, regulators, government officials, and local communities achieve their low-carbon aspirations, while safeguarding ...
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Fourth Asian Elephant Range States meeting concludes with the launch of declaration for Asian elephant conservation
Siem Reap, Cambodia, 24 February (IUCN) – Government representatives from 13 Asian elephant range countries, along with members of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Asian Elephant Specialist Group ...
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Ocean acidification
Present ocean acidity change is unprecedented in magnitude, occurring at a rate approximately ten times faster than anything experienced during the last 300 million years. This rapid timeline is ...
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Wild cats : status survey and conservation action plan
Presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the 36 wild cats of the world. It includes the first published collection of detailed range maps and some of the first ...
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Global Inventory on Biodiversity Offset Policies
A collaborative project between IUCN and The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC) to contribute to sustainability, GIBOP is an open access platform on biodiversity offsets that shares the latest information ...
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Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE)
The Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme is an international collaboration that measures the levels, trends and causes of elephant mortality, thereby providing an information ...
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Guidelines for management planning of protected areas
A Management Plan is a document which sets out the management approach and goals, together with a framework for decision making, to apply in a specific protected area over a given period of time.
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World Commission on Environmental Law
The World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) advances environmental law around the globe by providing specialized knowledge and assistance to strengthen the legal foundations of the conservation ...