Press release | 06 Dec, 2021
All coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean at high risk of collapse within 50 years
Gland, Switzerland, 6 December 2021 (IUCN) - A new assessment of the coral reefs of the Western Indian Ocean shows that they are all at high risk of collapse within the next five decades. Ocean warming and overfishing were identified as the main threats.
Story | 06 Dec, 2021
Conflict and climate change pressures on natural World Heritage in the Arab region
A new report, Tabe’a III, examines for the first time the impacts from conflict in natural World Heritage sites in the Arab States, as well as those from extreme weather conditions. It also looks at the connections between nature and culture in the management of these sites.
Story | 06 Dec, 2021
Endangered Caspian Seal Habitat Awarded Important Marine Mammal Area Status
Today, the IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas, a joint task force of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the World Commission on Protected Areas, announces that Caspian seals have been awarded three Important Marine Mammal Areas, or IMMAs, as part of a tranche of 14 new IMMAs…
Story | 29 Nov, 2021
How to ignite ecosystem restoration in your community
Grassroots action for the restoration of your local ecosystem is a means to engage yourself and the community around you to become part of the change that you are trying to achieve, according to the IUCN Community-Organizing Toolkit on Ecosystem Restoration.
Story | 25 Nov, 2021
Strengthening local capacity to monitor migratory waterbirds in northern Viet Nam
Written by Le Trong Trai and Yong Ding Li
Story | 22 Nov, 2021
The UNEP/IUCN National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action now includes a linear, step-by-step tutorial and six videos to support learning on the process to gather and analyse data to determine where, what, and how plastic is leaking into the…
Story | 18 Nov, 2021
Global deforestation: EU Commission outlines new law to address agriculture trade chains
Yesterday, the European Commission proposed a ground-breaking new legislation which aims to minimise the EU’s footprint on the world’s forests. The new law hopes to keep products linked to deforestation and forest degradation off the EU market.
Story | 16 Nov, 2021
Throughout 2021, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) collaborated with local and national government agencies and community members surrounding Boeung Prek Lapouv Protected Landscape to restore flooded forests and seasonally inundated…
Story | 16 Nov, 2021
3 rivers, 2 countries, 1 vision
The Buzi, Pungwe and Save rivers (BuPuSa) flow through Zimbabwe and Mozambique, representing opportunities for sharing benefits, but also possible risks and water insecurity in the case of a lack of cooperation. A common vision is crucial to address present and future…
Press release | 12 Nov, 2021
IUCN welcomes recognition of nature’s role at COP26 and calls for more ambition
IUCN welcomes the progress made in Glasgow, including with respect to nature. However, it stresses that this headway will not be sufficient to “keep 1.5°C alive”, and calls for significant and meaningful step change at COP27. We are running out of time and options.