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![Statement by Dr Grethel Aguilar, Director General International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)](/sites/default/files/styles/webp_style/public/2024-07/grethel-aguilar-hlpf-3b.jpg.webp?itok=m7BH54NN)
IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar delivered IUCN’s statement on 17 July 2024 to the UN…
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The ocean is a world with three dimensions. The first is depth, from the tides lapping at our…
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Civilisation as we know it began thousands of years ago when humans coaxed the first crops from…
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Biodiversity is the tapestry of life on which we all depend. We are capable, through positive…
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IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar delivered an address at the closing ceremony of the…
![Grethel Aguilar gives a speech at the opening of CMS COP14](/sites/default/files/styles/webp_style/public/2024-02/iucn-grethelaguilar-cms-cop14.jpg.webp?itok=SaLea76Z)
IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar delivered an address at the official opening ceremony…
![Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN Director General](/sites/default/files/styles/webp_style/public/2023-12/grethel-high-level-2-web.jpg.webp?itok=qCQ6Rlhu)
IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar delivered IUCN's statement to the UN Climate Change…
![Beach clean-up programme in action in Bali, Indonesia](/sites/default/files/styles/webp_style/public/2023-06/oceanimagebank_vincentkneefel_02.jpg.webp?itok=er3mO-EZ)
Over 400 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide every year. Plastic pollution is a…
![Bird feeding on berries](/sites/default/files/styles/webp_style/public/2023-05/bird.jpg.webp?itok=f6Iur-Br)
This year’s International Day for Biological Diversity brings with it the spirit of ambition and…
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Dear Members of the International Seabed Authority,
In September 2021 at the IUCN World…
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