This article shares reflections from an IUCN Member organisation about its efforts to elevate citizen and community science ...

Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of ...

For more than 20 years, Kent led the Global Marine Species Assessment with his team at Old Dominion University, coordinating hundreds of experts worldwide to assess almost 20,000 marine fishes, corals ...

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved nearly US$5 million in funding for two projects to be implemented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Southern Africa.

The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) extends our congratulations to botanist, taxonomist, and medicinal plant conservationist Uwe Schippmann, on being named a recipient of the American Botanical ...

The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) is the IUCN global standard for measuring the severity of environmental impacts caused by animals, fungi and plants living outside their ...

Our group works to build capacity in Red List assessment tools in addition to connecting and empowering teams to improve and publish knowledge of lichen diversity and conservation. By connecting field ...

Nature-based Solutions are actions addressing key societal challenges through the protection, sustainable management and restoration of both natural and modified ecosystems, benefiting both ...

I work as a teacher and scientist at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, which is the first and most important University for many years. During these many years I have held various positions: ...

Do you have special expertise in an area of conservation or sustainable development? Do you want to learn from and collaborate with other experts in your field or related fields? Do you want to put ...

As a result of international concern in the mid-1960s that existing scientific knowledge of polar bears was inadequate for the effective management of the species, the IUCN SSC Polar Bear Specialist ...

PSG envisions assessments at the population level for all threatened subspecies of pinnipeds and accompanying action plans for these populations that will serve to improve their status.