More than one in three tree species worldwide faces extinction - IUCN Red List
Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, publ…
The looming extinction of the vaquita puts Gulf of California on World Heritage danger list
The World Heritage Committee today followed IUCN’s advice to list Mexico’s Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of Ca…
Ancient ferns highly threatened in Europe - IUCN Red List
A fifth of European fern and lycopod species, a group of vascular plants that underpins healthy ecosystems, are threaten…
A billion-dollar business puts species and people at risk
At least 12% of groupers - globally-important food fish species that live on coral and rocky reefs - face extinction, pu…
Last chance for the Sumatran rhino
With population estimates of Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) reduced to less than 100 individuals, a ground-b…
Sharks, rhinos and elephants among wildlife trade summit winners
A historic vote to improve the sustainability of the international trade of eight species of sharks and rays that are li…
IUCN and Microsoft form unique partnership to tackle species extinction
Microsoft and IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, jointly announced today at the 2012 IUCN World C…
Governments to debate planet "bailout"
Never has the world faced a more pressing crisis than the current loss of biodiversity, which affects every man, woman a…