With 21 riparian countries, the Mediterranean Sea covers about 2.5 million km2, of which about 25% are under the full jurisdiction of the countries, the remaining part being potentially their ...

Recognizing the interdependency of the three pillars of sustainable development - social, economic and environmental, IUCN’s work in Eastern and Southern Africa underscores the fact that sustainable ...

Europe faces enormous challenges in the years to come. These challenges include adapting to climate change and enhancing our resilience to natural disasters, providing food to more than 500 million ...

IUCN WCPA Marine Theme - the world’s premier network of Marine Protected Area (MPA) expertise. Fabrice Stephenson is a marine ecologist at Newcastle University and a thematic Vice Chair for the WCPA ...

The first study of its kind, led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), gathered data from 1,733 municipalities representing more than 74% of the Amazon to find that forests on ...

More than 280 State, government agencies, NGOs, Indigenous Peoples' Organisations (IPOs) and institutions in Asia are IUCN Members. We also work with over 2,500 Commission members in the region who ...

The IUCN and the Agence Nationale des Eaux et Forêts (National Water and Forestry Agency) are launching a national strategy for the conservation of birds of prey in Tangier, along with an action plan ...

In Oceania, millions of people are directly dependent upon nature’s bounties for their daily food, housing and medicine. Good environmental governance will ensure the environment continues to provide ...

The Green, Just Energy Transition is more than a shift from fossil fuels to renewables—it’s a commitment to doing so in ways ...

The Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA) is a prime example of an intergrated conservation and communtiy development organisation. TCA uses two critically endangered tree kangaroos as flagships - the ...

Despite previous policies and actions to support biodiversity, the drivers of biodiversity loss have worsened and biodiversity continues to decline. Parties to the UN Convention on Biological ...