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Tech4Nature: How low-cost innovation and traditional knowledge are helping Amazonian communities confront a changing coastline

Stretching across more than 8,000 km² on Brazil’s northern coast, the Amazon mangroves form one of the planet’s largest ...
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Preserving Earth’s last sanctuaries: A call for urgent action on primary forests

From boreal forests near the Arctic Circle to dense tropical jungles south of the Equator, Earth’s last primary forests — ...
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Switzerland boosts forest landscape restoration across Africa and South America with CHF 5.2 million contribution

Belém, Brazil, 17 November 2025 (IUCN) – Today at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), Switzerland announced significant new ...
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Germany and IUCN celebrate 15 years of the Bonn Challenge, the world’s largest restoration initiative

Belém, Brazil, 17 November 2025 (IUCN) – Today at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), global leaders gathered to celebrate the ...
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IUCN calls for stronger collaboration among Rio Conventions at COP30 in Belém

IUCN has urged governments and stakeholders to strengthen the role of nature in climate action and take concrete steps to jointly address the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss ...
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Nature’s power in action: Linking ground realities with global adaptation and resilience goals at COP30

13 November 2025, Belém, Brazil, IUCN – At COP30, where the world is called to deliver on the “Global Mutirão” vision of collective, solutions-oriented action, IUCN’s Global Climate Change and Energy ...
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IUCN agrees first global policy on synthetic biology

IUCN has adopted the first-ever global policy on synthetic biology and nature conservation. The policy was adopted by IUCN’s highest decision-making body, its Members’ Assembly, comprising the Union's ...
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IUCN launches new RHINO approach (Rapid High-Integrity Nature-positive Outcomes) in global charge to deliver critical nature action

Today at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 in Abu Dhabi, IUCN has launched RHINO (Rapid High-Integrity Nature-positive Outcomes), a new approach guiding organisations on what to do, where to ...
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IUCN Commission for Environmental Management launches new guidance on rewilding

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 9 October 2025 (IUCN) – New guidelines on rewilding practice have been launched at the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025. Evolving over many years, the guidelines ...
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High Seas Treaty achieves milestone of 60 ratifications, paving the way for ocean protection

Formally known as the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction ...
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Poaching of African rhinos down - but drought and other threats drive losses globally

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 ...
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IUCN welcomes International Court of Justice's historic climate change Advisory Opinion

Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States to protect the climate system. IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar addressing the ICJ ...