Story | 27 Oct, 2008
IUCN Completes Due Diligence on Rio Tinto
IUCN has been in talks with the Rio Tinto Group over the past 18 months about the possibility of signing a partnership agreement with the intention of helping Rio Tinto reach it's goal of a net positive impact on biodiversity.
Story | 27 Oct, 2008
Protected Areas: Buffering Nature against Climate Change
Proceedings of an IUCN/WCPA and WWF Symposium, June 2007, Canberra Australia
Story | 27 Oct, 2008
WCPA Australia Climate Change Statement
WCPA Australia Climate Change Statement
Story | 23 Oct, 2008
High Seas Gems: Hidden Treasures of Our Blue Earth
The largest, least-protected places on our blue planet are found in the high seas - the open ocean and deep seabed that lie seaward of individual nations’ jurisdictions. Extending from the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica to most of the Indian, Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans…
Story | 23 Oct, 2008
New Impetus for the High Seas following IUCN World Conservation Congress
IUCN members at the World Conservation Congress have called for strong action to protect high seas biodiversity and to regulate the human activities impacting it. This signals a growing awareness of the vital role oceans play in sustaining life on our planet and alarm at the multiplying threats…
Story | 15 Oct, 2008
Edited by Ameer Abdulla, PhD and Olof Linden, PhD
Story | 15 Oct, 2008
Edited by Nilüfer Oral and François Simard
Press release | 08 Oct, 2008
High seas gems in the spotlight
Today at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, a joint initiative has been launched to highlight special places in the least protected place on Earth: the high seas. The centerpiece of which is a brochure showcasing 10 “gems” of the high seas.
Press release | 07 Oct, 2008
Climate change: pushing species to the brink
Thirty-five percent of the world’s birds, 52 percent of amphibians and 71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are likely to be particularly susceptible to climate change, the first results of an IUCN study have revealed.
Press release | 06 Oct, 2008
IUCN Red List reveals world’s mammals in crisis
Barcelona, Spain, 6 October, 2008 (IUCN) – The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, revealed at the IUCN World Conservation Congress…