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IUCN celebrates 10 impactful years of tiger conservation with new report
A new report from IUCN’s Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP) highlights a decade of transformative ...
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IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group
The future of tapirs is threatened due to rapid decline and fragmentation of their habitat due to deforestation, agriculture and human habitation. Hunting and mining have also contributed to their ...
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Rivers are Connected. Actions to Protect Them Must Be Connected Too
The health of freshwater systems is core to the health of surrounding landscapes — but not nearly enough is being done to ...
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IUCN SSC Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence Specialist Group
Human - wildlife conflict (HWC) occurs when animals pose a direct and recurring threat to the livelihood or safety of people, leading to the persecution of that species. Retaliation against the ...
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Kiwa grantee inspires rangers at World Ranger Congress in Fiji
Rangers play an important role in protecting the planet's natural resources and biodiversity. They work tirelessly to safeguard national parks, wildlife, and ecosystems, ensuring that these areas ...
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Empowering action: IUCN Pakistan provides training for small grant recipients
These grant recipients were selected through a rigorous call for proposals process, moderated by the National Coordinating Body (NCB) of IUCN Pakistan. The NCB represents an array of institutions ...
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Wildlife in a changing climate
Over 6,000 animals, fungi and plants at risk of extinction are threatened by climate change and severe weather on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, across every region of the world. The Red ...
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IUCN marks 60th anniversary of Red List with year-long campaign to accelerate species assessments
Hundreds of leaders, experts, partners, and supporters of the International Union for Conservation of Nature gathered on the sidelines of the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention ...
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Strengthening conservation voices: Over 20 CSOs enhance communications skills at IUCN-CEPF workshop
Over 20 civil society organisations from five countries strengthened their project communications at a three-day workshop organised by IUCN in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from 8-10 October 2024.
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Wings of hope: A transboundary conservation success for the white-rumped vulture
In April 2024, a critically endangered white-rumped vulture, approximately five years old, was found in a vulnerable state in Khalishpur, Khulna, Bangladesh. Dehydrated and malnourished, the vulture ...
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The plastic pollution crisis
Plastics only began to be produced in large quantities following the second world war – but plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious threats humanity faces. By 2015, 60% of all ...