Six Indigenous leaders from Africa, Asia and Latin America were recognised today as the inaugural Indigenous Peoples ...

The new protocol offers an opportunity to strengthen international cooperation against transnational environmental crime and ...

Three protected and conserved areas in China have achieved Green List status for the first time, while seven sites in France have had their Green List status reaffirmed. The listings were announced at ...

IUCN has launched its first global strategy to tackle invasive alien species, one of the world’s greatest drivers of biodiversity loss and species extinctions. It sets out how IUCN’s Members, ...

IUCN Director General, Dr Grethel Aguilar, delivered IUCN’s statement to the plenary at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Yerevan, Armenia, ...

The Government of Armenia, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the Government of Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), today ...

Yerevan, Armenia, 28 October 2026 (IUCN) – The Yerevan Global OECM Action Hub was launched today at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ...

Yerevan, Armenia, 29 October 2026 (IUCN) – Today at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17), IUCN, together with the IUCN Commission on ...

Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, yet they support around a quarter of all marine fish species, alongside countless invertebrates and the food, income and coastal protection of ...

Vienna, Austria, 29 October 2026 — The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) welcomes the decision made on 23 October 2026 by the 13th session of the Conference of the Parties to the ...