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 on Biodiversity in Cali, Colombia on 28 October to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and to chart an ambitious path forward for expanding the critical indicator of the health of the world’s biodiversity – the “barometer of life”.| IUCN
Gland, Switzerland, 7 August 2025 (IUCN) – Poaching of African rhinos has decreased since 2021, but the gains have been offset by other threats such as drought and policy shifts, posing a challenge to future growth, a report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and TRAFFIC finds.| IUCN
Wellington, New Zealand, 18 February 2025 (IUCN) – A breakthrough partnership is set to redefine global conservation efforts, as the OceanOmics team at Minderoo Foundation partners with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to use environmental DNA (eDNA) to determine when species are under threat of extinction.| IUCN
Eighty five percent of sturgeon, one of the oldest families of fishes in existence, valued around the world for their precious roe, are at risk of extinction, making them the most threatened group of animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The latest update of the Red List assessed the status of 18 species of sturgeon from all over Europe and Asia and found that all were threatened.| IUCN
World Commission on Protected Areas of IUCN – The World Conservation Union.| IUCN
Right now in the global conservation community, everyone is talking about "30x30". This refers to a new global movement that calls for the conservation of 30% of the earth's land and water by 2030 in fair and effective ways. But how can this ambitious target be achieved?| IUCN
On 2025 World Environment Day, the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea officially launched the “30×30 Alliance” on 4 June in Jeju.| IUCN
Baku, Azerbaijan, 13 November 2024 (IUCN) – Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ reveals following a global assessment announced today at the ongoing COP29 UN climate conference in Azerbaijan.| IUCN
Cali, Colombia, 28 October 2024 (IUCN) – Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published in today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Also in today’s update, the conservation status of the Western European hedgehog has deteriorated and is now listed as Near Threatened.| IUCN