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Amman, Jordan, 10 January 2025 (IUCN ROWA) – The International Union for Conservation of Nature, Regional Office for West Asia, is pleased to announce the addition of six new sites and one re-listing from the Middle East - West Asia MEWA region to the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved…

Gland, Switzerland, 8 January 2025 (IUCN) – The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% of the world’s freshwater fish, dragonfly, damselfly, crab, crayfish and shrimp species are at high risk of extinction…

With financial support from the European Commission, IUCN has launched a new project aimed at identifying Environmental Harmful Subsidies (EHS) and improving biodiversity financing in Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. This project comes at a countries’ request but also as a…

In April of 2024, in the furthest reaches of Chilean Patagonia and on the least trodden corners of the continent’s largest glacier, we found a dragon. It was hiding down a deep, blue crevasse, a few centimetres below my tiring feet. My heart stopped.

IUCN, in partnership with local NGO members Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT) and Culture and Environment Preservation Association (CEPA), is executing a 48-month EU project…

On November 18-22, 2024, as part of the SDC Gulf of Mottama Project, IUCN and MERN organised a visit to the Ayeyarwady Delta for 11 members of Community Forest (CF) Committees and Local Conservation Groups (LCGs) in six project villages in Paung and Thaton Townships, Mon State. The aim was to…

Around the world at the IUCN Regional Conservation Forums in 2024, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication was proud to honour the exceptional contributions of six CEC Members through the 2024 CEC Regional Awards. 

The Municipality of Yerevan becomes the fifth IUCN Member from Armenia, joining as a Subnational Government committed to advancing nature conservation and sustainable development in the urban context. As one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, Yerevan is now part of IUCN’s…

On the occasion of International Mountain Day (11 December), IUCN India organised an event titled ‘Youth for the Himalayas: Innovate, Inspire, Impact’ in collaboration with the G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (NIHE). Supported by the Ministry of Environment, Forest…

Today, Community Fisheries in Cambodia play a major role in sustainable fisheries management. By 2023, the Fisheries Administration (FiA) had recorded 516 CFis (475 freshwater, 41 coastal), of which 447 are officially registered.