International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

New IUCN guidance calls for ecological integrity to guide global biodiversity and climate action

October 2026. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched new guidance on how to successfully ...
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Nearly half of reef-building coral species face elevated relative risk of extinction

Mombasa, Kenya, 15 October 2026 – A global reassessment of reef-building corals has found that 44% of species are threatened ...
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From global ambition to local action: IUCN President sets priorities ahead of COP17

Yerevan, Armenia – 19 October 2026. Ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP17), IUCN President Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak called for faster implementation of global biodiversity commitments, ...
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New FEBA brief calls for equity to be at the heart of ecosystem-based adaptation ahead of CBD COP17

As global leaders prepare for the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia, a new brief from Friends of Ecosystem-based ...
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IUCN Celebrates Grand Opening of New North America Regional Office in Washington, D.C., Marking 40 Years in the Region

IUCN’s North America Regional Office celebrated the opening of its new Washington, D.C. space, welcoming global conservation leaders, philanthropists, Members, diplomats, and policymakers and ...
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Deep-sea mining

Deep-sea mining is the process of extracting and often excavating mineral deposits from the deep seabed. The deep seabed is the seabed at ocean depths greater than 200m, and covers about two-thirds of ...
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IUCN Secretariat

IUCN’s headquarters are in Gland, near Geneva, Switzerland, and we have regional, outpost, country and project offices around the world. In addition to contributing knowledge, convening and ...
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Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric

The Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric measures the contribution that investments can make to reducing species’ extinction risk. It helps governments, cities, civil society, 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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Land degradation and climate change

Soil is the biggest terrestrial carbon sink. The world’s soils store more carbon than the planet’s biomass and atmosphere combined. This includes soil organic carbon, which is essentially biodiversity ...
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Blue carbon

The coastal ecosystems of mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows contain large stores of carbon deposited by vegetation and various natural processes over centuries. These ecosystems sequester ...
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Search: SSC groups

Some groups address conservation issues related to particular groups of plants, fungi or animals while others focus on broader issues such as the reintroduction of species into former habitats, ...