Gender equality is a human right - and prerequisite for sustainable development and achieving IUCN’s mission. IUCN is committed to advancing gender equality, including through women’s empowerment, as ...

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 ...

Early October in Abu Dhabi, more than 10,000 participants hailing from over 140 countries converged at the IUCN World ...

IUCN Members adopt 20-year Vision and four-year Pr... IUCN Members have voted to adopt a new 20-year Strategic Vision and four-year Programme to guide the Union’s work in the lead up to 2030.

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 ...

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 ...

In November 2015, the failure of the Fundão tailings dam at the Samarco's ore mining site in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, released 39.2 million m3 of tailings, resulting in severe environmental, ...

About & How We Engage WCEL works to enhance the development and strengthen the implementation of environmental law and policy, including through best practices and inter-sectoral strategies for ...

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 ...

A call for mobilisation to the entire Union.

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 ...

Besides being our key partners in action, the Members are shaping our regional direction and work plan. Strengthening and enlarging our membership and knowledge base remains one of our priorities in ...