Rangers play an important role in protecting the planet's natural resources and biodiversity. They work tirelessly to ...

Formally acknowledging water as a human right could encourage the international community and governments to enhance their efforts to satisfy basic human needs and to meet the Millennium Development ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most water-scarce region in the world. Throughout the MENA region both surface and groundwater resources are under pressure and over exploited because of ...

CISG is a global network of experts working on organisms associated with karst and caves. The majority of caves are found in limestone rock. The cave environment can be divided into the twilight zone ...

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 ...

“Estamos celebrando el Big Bang de la conservación. La primera acción concreta vinculada a la construcción de una agenda global de conservación”, así inauguró el Director Regional de la UICN para ...

Empezamos un nuevo proyecto. Uno que nos llena de ilusión y de retos como Secretariado. Uno, cuyo enfoque se basa en el valor más importante de la UICN: transmitir conocimiento técnico a través y de ...

Durante tres días se intercambiaron experiencias, conocimientos y perspectivas que enriquecieron el debate sobre la promoción de la inversión privada para el financiamiento de infraestructura ...

A Batak indigenous woman is planting crops in her field near my father’s village. We chat. The lady, who happens to be a distant aunt, has lived in the Tapanuli region with her extended family near ...

The threatened species categories used in Red Data Books and Red Lists have been in place for almost 30 years. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria provide an easily and widely understood system ...

The IUCN Academy is pleased to announce an upcoming series of webinars that will explore crucial topics at the intersection of nature and sustainability. Join us as we dive into discussions on ...

In March 2016, the failure of the Fundão Dam killed 19 people, destroyed villages, and spread mud along 670 km of the Rio Doce basin in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo. A ...