Press release | 09 Apr, 2007
Protecting oceans and coasts will help millions of people survive climate change
IUCN Marine Protected Area Summit in Washington, DC opens today with call for better protection of our seas to counter climate change and other threats to the marine environment
Press release | 21 Feb, 2007
More oceanic sharks added to the IUCN Red List
Expert findings show even the fastest, widest ranging sharks are threatened by overfishing as more species added to IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Press release | 18 Feb, 2007
Holcim and the World Conservation Union join forces to conserve biodiversity
Press release | 05 Feb, 2007
Nomadism benefits the economy, new study shows
New report on the economics of nomadism reveals importance of this traditional lifestyle to the income of developing countries and international trade
Press release | 31 Jan, 2007
Carcass of critically endangered whale found in fishing gear off Japan’s coast
A critically endangered Western Pacific Gray Whale (Western Gray Whale) has recently died off the Pacific coast of Japan after becoming trapped in fishing gear.
Story | 01 Oct, 2006
New scientific panel to keep the finger on the pulse of the endangered Western Gray Whale
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) convenes a new independent scientific advisory panel to monitor the impact of the Sakhalin II offshore oil and gas development on critically endangered Western Gray Whale population
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Story | 13 Mar, 2005
The Top 50 Mediterranean island plants
Wild plants at the brink of extinction, and what is needed to save them Montmollin, Bertrand de, ed. ; Strahm, Wendy, ed. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Mediterranean Islands Plant Specialist Group
Story | 31 Dec, 2003
Biodiversity Offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
Biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects. Recent experience with regulatory regimes, such as wetland and conservation banking in the USA, tradable forest conservation obligations in…