The Latest Breaking News from IUCN

Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse

Researchers have warned that the findings should not be used as a ‘carte blanche’ for destructive human behaviour.

Botswana’s fertile Okavango Delta is one of the last remaining high-biodiversity ecosystems in the world, home to cheetahs, African wild dogs, baobab trees, crocodiles, termites and owls that catch fish. Roughly the size of the state of Connecticut, the freshwater Okavango Delta opens into an enormous alluvial fan that stretches…

More than 20 per cent of both bumble bee and cellophane bee species are under threat

Essential pollinators at risk from habitat loss, climate change and pollution, IUCN assessment says.

The green turtle’s status has been downgraded from endangered after years of conservation work

The IUCN Species Survival Commission warned many animals face increasing risks of disappearing

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

Three Arctic seal species have also moved closer to extinction as global warming destroys their icy home.