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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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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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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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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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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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Climate Change

The interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation threaten to exacerbate human inequality and disrupt efforts for broad human well-being, unless an integrated ...
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IUCN SSC Bird Red List Authority

The BirdLife Partnership strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. The role of the group exists to ...
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TREPA midterm report shows strong progress, achieving 73% of restoration target as efforts continue through 2027

Rwanda is redefining what climate resilience looks like in Africa’s drylands. In the heart of the Eastern Province, once scarred by drought, erosion, and land degradation, a quiet transformation is ...
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IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas

The IUCN Green List is a global campaign for successful nature conservation. At its heart is the Green List Sustainability Standard that provides a global benchmark for how to meet the environmental ...
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IUCN SSC Sirenia Specialist Group

This Specialist Group (SSG) contributes to increase current knowledge on status and distribution of Order Sirenia across the entire geographic range of its distribution. To identify issues of concern ...