October 2024 - As the global conservation community gathers for the CBD COP16, IUCN puts a spotlight on the unrealised ...

Consists of a group of volunteers dedicated to the common goal of assisting in the conservation of all Genera of Carnivorous Plants. Robert Cantley was educated as a physicist and then later as an ...

CGSG establishes guidance for pressing genetic policy and management issues. CGSG also provides genetic advice on policy and management within IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) and expert ...

These guidelines offer an approach for developing a corporate-level biodiversity strategic plan, including measurable goals and objectives and a set of core linked indicators, that will allow ...

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are seen as a response to many societal challenge. It is becoming increasingly obvious that protected and conserved areas (PCAs) are a major vehicle for NbS and essential ...

The Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) programme is an international collaboration that measures the levels, trends and causes of elephant mortality, thereby providing an information ...

South Africa has exceptional biodiversity, characterized by high species richness, high levels of endemism, a wide variety of ecosystems, and is a corridor for key migratory species. It is identified.

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 ...

Addressing ecosystem management means addressing complex systems. For this IUCN deploys a variety of tools and strategies, addresses information gaps and capacity needs in terms of sustainable ...

Boas and pythons are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. However, clearcutting of forests, substitution of natural habitats by crops and infrastructure, introduced ...

It was established in 1998 because of growing conservation concerns for vulnerable species in these two teleost families. The GWSG in the current triennium has 30 members from almost 20 countries ...

Bats are among the most endangered of the world's creatures, primarily because much of their habitat has been eliminated by human development or because they are persecuted. The IUCN SSC Bat ... Dr.