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IUCN Director General’s message on International Day for Biological Diversity 2025
Today, on International Day for Biological Diversity, we celebrate the extraordinary power of nature to sustain life, drive ...
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IUCN Director General's statement on the loss of environmental defender in Guatemala
In light of the tragic news of the death of Marco Antonio Zuleta Quevedo, Guatemalan park ranger and forest firefighter, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) strongly rejects all ...
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New Guidelines on Harvesting Threatened Species: Balancing conservation and sustainable use
On the occasion of Endangered Species Day 2025, the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) and its Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) are launching a new set of guidelines ...
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Transformative Justice in Conservation Finance: Basic Income for Nature and Climate (BINC)
Robert Fletcher and colleagues present Basic Income for Nature and Climate (BINC), an innovative funding mechanism that directly addresses social justice and ecological conservation simultaneously.
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Cross-sector Innovation for Nature-Positive Outcomes
Jacob Park, Swayamprabha Das, and Ernesto Herrera propose an innovative cross-sector collaboration model to achieve nature-positive conservation outcomes. Jacob Park (Associate Professor, Vermont ...
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First IUCN SSC Centre for Species Survival in partnership with the Wilder Institute opens in Canada
The IUCN SSC Centre for Species Survival Human Dimensions (CSS Human Dimensions) in Alberta will address some of the critical—but often overlooked—social and cultural aspects of conservation. The ...
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CREATES Stakeholder Validation Workshop closes with strong support from local stakeholders
On Wednesday 7th of May 2025, the CREATES Programme brought together key stakeholders, in Nairobi, Kenya, to validate the programme design and governance structure. The Climate Resilient Eastern ...
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SSC Conference to Bring Together Conservation and Microbial Research Communities
The upcoming conference Conservation in a Microbial World co-organized by the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) will for the first time bring together the conservation and microbial research ...
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Learning from what works: Regional knowledge exchange workshop in Namibia
In early May, Windhoek became the hub of regional learning and collaboration as Namibia hosted a landmark knowledge exchange workshop focused on implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and ...
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Wings of Wonder: Tracking the Epic Journeys of European Rollers
As dawn breaks across southern Africa, five new European Rollers, fitted with lightweight satellite trackers, take flight, beginning journeys that will span thousands of kilometres and cross entire ...
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Integrated environmental protection takes centre stage at 4th WCEL World Environmental Law Congress in Morocco
The 4th World Environmental Law Congress, organised by the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), was successfully held from 4-7 May 2025 in Rabat, Morocco, bringing together over 200 ...