Story | 03 Mar, 2021
Kampala, Uganda, 3 March 2021. Grants to the total value of 368’939 EUR have been awarded to five organisations in Uganda to address biodiversity conservation needs. The European Union…
Story | 04 Dec, 2020
IUCN India and Eco roots Foundation Celebrates Wildlife Week with the Young Leaders of Nature
In recent times, humanity is facing one of its greatest pandemic crisis and has brought the entire world to a standstill. Economies are vulnerable, cultures have been isolated, and individuals pushed below the poverty line. Numerous reports have…
Story | 03 Dec, 2020
TECH4NATURE: supporting better conservation outcomes in protected and conserved areas
IUCN’s Global Protected and Conserved Areas Programme is now leading a new, open partnership called ‘TECH4NATURE’ together with world’s leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) provider Huawei. The aim of the partnership is to harness new and innovative technologies in support of…
Press release | 02 Dec, 2020
Climate change now top threat to natural World Heritage – IUCN report
Gland, Switzerland, 2 December 2020 (IUCN) – Climate change is now the biggest threat to natural World Heritage, according to a report published today by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). A third (33%) of natural World Heritage sites are threatened by…
Story | 24 Nov, 2020
Africa’s wildlife protectors to be honoured at the virtual 2020 Tusk Conservation Awards
Africa’s wildlife protectors will be honoured at the virtual 2020 Tusk Conservation Awards on 3 December with an additional £1million boost to conservation efforts
Story | 30 Oct, 2020
New Global Agreement to Address Serious Gaps in Environmental Law
By John E. Scanlon - On 16 October 2020, the Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime released a groundbreaking briefing paper proposing a new international legal framework to address wildlife crime.
Story | 19 Oct, 2020
The Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Areas (SADC-TFCAs) Financing Facility implementation agreement has been signed by IUCN ESARO and SADC Secretariat, marking an important milestone in the history of the newly established SADC TFCA Financing Facility project.…
Story | 04 Sep, 2020
Three landscape conservation projects converge in the Kilombero Valley
Kilombero Valley in Tanzania is an area of high biodiversity – including a Ramsar listed wetland – that is under ever-increasing human pressure. It is also part of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), a public-private partnership initiated through…
Story | 05 Aug, 2020
The IUCN SSC/WCPA Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force (“the Task Force”) today announces the approval of thirteen new Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) in the Extended Southern Ocean Region.
Story | 10 Jul, 2020
Statement of the IUCN SSC African Elephant Specialist Group on elephant deaths in Botswana
10th July 2020 — The African Elephant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) expresses its concern about the reported mysterious mass die-off of African elephants (Loxodonta africana). It is estimated that over 250…