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 ...

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 ...

The Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development, but this cannot be achieved by conservationists alone. The IUCN Congress is the place to ...

The health of freshwater systems is core to the health of surrounding landscapes — but not nearly enough is being done to ...

Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published ...

The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (RLE) key tool and global standard for assessing the conservation status of ecosystems applicable at local, national, regional and global levels ...

IUCN SSC Coral Specialist Group brings together leading scientists, practitioners and conservationists under the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature .

A new report from IUCN’s Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP) highlights a decade of transformative ...

Harold Jefferson Coolidge, born in Boston in 1904, was one of the founders of IUCN, a former president of the Union and its principal fundraiser from 1948 to the 1980s. He founded and chaired the ...

Around 15% of the earths land surface is underlain by carbonate rocks most of which have distinctive karst landforms. Most caves are in carbonate rocks but there are also many lava caves. Caves are ...

The health of soils is dependent on the mix of living organisms they contain, including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, insects, worms, other invertebrates and vertebrates. This variety of organisms ...

Monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Agenda item 3) IUCN commends the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators on their work in further operationalising the ...