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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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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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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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A Wave of New Commitments for Effective Conservation Strengthens the IUCN Green List Community through the Power of Partnership

The IUCN Green List continues to grow as a global movement for quality conservation. Increasingly, countries are adopting the IUCN Green List to measure and improve the quality, equity, and ...
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Sports for Nature

Sports have a unique opportunity to address the nature crisis. IUCN has been working with key partners on developing the Sports for Nature Initiative to contribute to global efforts to halt and ...
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Indigenous peoples

Across the globe, Indigenous peoples manage significant areas of Earth’s most biodiverse regions as a core expression and part of their cultural identity and spiritual practices. The profound ...
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Gender equality

Gender equality is a human right - and prerequisite for sustainable development and achieving IUCN’s mission. IUCN is committed to advancing gender equality, including through women’s empowerment, as ...
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The plastic pollution crisis

Plastics only began to be produced in large quantities following the second world war – but plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious threats humanity faces. By 2015, 60% of all ...
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Freshwater fish highlight escalating climate impacts on species - IUCN Red List

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 11 December 2023 (IUCN) – Climate change threatens a growing number of species, from Atlantic salmon to green turtles, today’s update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...
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Fin Whale, Mountain Gorilla recovering thanks to conservation action – IUCN Red List

Gland, Switzerland, 14 November 2018 (IUCN) – Conservation action has brought renewed hope for the Fin Whale and the Mountain Gorilla, according to today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened ...