Story | 29 Jan, 2016
Microplastics: A global disaster in the Arctic Ocean
Microplastics pollution in the Arctic and its effects on ecosystems, human health and ice formation and melting are the subject of a newly launched IUCN research project.
Legacy Article | 07 Oct, 2015
Illegal trade contributes to placing cacti among world’s most threatened species – IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 5 October 2015 (IUCN) – Thirty-one percent of cactus species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive, global assessment of the species group by IUCN and partners, published today in the journal Nature Plants. This places cacti among the most…
Story | 07 Jul, 2015
New IUCN report tracks conservation in the Arab region’s natural World Heritage sites
TABE’A II, a report tracking the conservation status of natural World Heritage sites in the Arab region, has been launched at the 39th World Heritage Committee meeting in Bonn, Germany. This is an update of the 2011…
Press release | 16 Jun, 2015
Synergies between climate mitigation and adaptation in forest landscape restoration.
The two responses to climate change - mitigating emissions and adapting to impacts - are often pursued as separate actions. But some ecosystem-based responses, like forest landscape restoration, can serve as both mitigation and adaptation tools. A new report from IUCN examines where and how…
Press release | 01 Jan, 2014
IUCN presents Restoration Opportunity Assessment Methodology
IUCN is developing a new landscape Restoration Opportunity Assessment Methodology for use at national and subnational levels.
Story | 04 Nov, 2013
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
including Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types.
Story | 02 May, 2013
Workshop Report - Improved Management of the Bering Strait
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) have undertaken a cooperative project to identify measures that could be adopted to protect important areas of the Bering Strait region,…
Story | 01 May, 2013
Improved Management of the Bering Strait
Story | 11 Dec, 2012
Nome Workshop Report on Bering Strait Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs)
Warming ocean temperatures and the dramatic loss of ice cover is opening Arctic waters to new and expanded shipping, fishing, research, offshore oil development, and other economic activities.Trans-Arctic and “destinational” shipping will likely grow substantially and will necessarily transit…
Story | 12 Nov, 2012
Protected Areas Benefits Assessment Tool
The Protected Areas Benefits Assessment Tool (PA-BAT) is designed to fill an important gap in the toolbox of protected area agencies and conservation institutions, by providing a methodology to collate and build information about the overall benefits from protected areas.