IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar delivered IUCN's statement to the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee, at ...

The 47th session of the World Heritage Committee opens on Sunday, 6 July 2025, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. Over ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is among the most widely accepted international conservation treaties, ratified today by ...

As the World Heritage Convention celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, over 1100 sites around the world are recognized as World Heritage - places that are so valuable to humanity that there ...

Cali, 28 October 2024 – The international community has made some headway on pledges to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030 but progress must accelerate, the official progress report from the UN ...

About Eastern & Southern Africa Region: Versatility in conserving nature The countries of eastern and southern Africa host a vast variety and abundance of the world’s biological and natural resources, ...

L’Assemblée des Membres du Congrès mondial de la nature de l’UICN est le plus haut organe directeur de l’UICN. Les Membres de l’UICN y discutent de sujets stratégiques, adoptent des motions ...

About climate change Climate change threatens people’s lives and livelihoods, the survival of species, and the integrity of ecosystems all over the world. But Nature-based Solutions that protect and ...

This European Red List provides an updated summary of the conservation status of the European species of dragonflies and damselflies, evaluated according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria ...

IUCN provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge, tools and projects that enable societies, economies and nature to thrive together. These include data, assessments ...

The Species Survival Commission (SSC), a science-based network comprising over 9,000 volunteer experts deployed across more than 130 Specialist Groups, Red List Authorities and Task Forces, all ...

At an official side event at the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16), the ENACT Partnership launched its 2024 Nature-based Solutions ...