Story | 28 Jun, 2015
IUCN seeks whale conservation experts to advise on energy development impacts
IUCN seeks applications from qualified individuals to serve on its independent scientific and technical advisory panel to minimize impacts on western gray whales during offshore oil and gas development and beyond in Sakhalin, in the Russian Far East. The…
Press release | 22 Jun, 2015
Conservation successes overshadowed by more species declines – IUCN Red List update
Successful conservation action has boosted the populations of the Iberian Lynx and the Guadalupe Fur Seal, while the African Golden Cat, the New Zealand Sea Lion and the Lion are facing increasing threats to their survival, according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened…
Story | 09 Jun, 2015
Call for Contributions to the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016 now open
The IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016 will bring together several thousand leaders and decision-makers from government, civil society, business, and academia with the goal of conserving the environment and harnessing the solutions nature offers to global challenges. This is an opportunity…
Story | 05 Jun, 2015
On Valuing Nature’s Water Infrastructure
Blog by Mark Smith, Director IUCN Water Programme. Posted originally on the Economist Insight for World Environment Day 2015.
Story | 27 May, 2015
Rare albino turtles hatch on Vamizi Island
Even after long years of nesting monitoring, there are still things that surprise us all. For the first time on Vamizi Island in Mozambique, on the turtle monitoring project that started over 10 years ago, four albino green turtle hatchlings were found on the island's most successful nesting…
Story | 12 Apr, 2015
World Water Forum: From crises to opportunities
Every three years, the World Water Forum puts water into the global spotlight. This 7th edition, which started on Sunday 12 April in Daegu and Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, will focus on moving from policy talk to implementation – on how to put proven solutions to water challenges into wider use…
Story | 08 Apr, 2015
World Forum on Natural Capital calls for ground-breaking case studies
Organizers of the second World Forum on Natural Capital, including IUCN, have issued a call for case studies that demonstrate how putting natural capital at the heart of decision-making can benefit companies’ bottom line, as well as the environment.
Story | 12 Mar, 2015
Demystifying the World's Forest Landscape Restoration Opportunities
A global movement to restore deforested and degraded forest landscapes is emerging. What should forest landscape restoration achieve? And where should it occur?
Press release | 19 Feb, 2015
Call for papers on: Enhancing food security through forest landscape restoration
Forest landscape restoration can dramatically improve food security in rural areas - but we need more evidence to understand how best this works, and where. We are calling for new research papers linking landscape restoration to food security.
Story | 28 Jan, 2015
Failing to protect nature's capital could cost businesses trillions
This OpEd piece by IUCN Director General Inger Andersen originally appeared on Guardian Sustainable Business.