The Latest Breaking News from IUCN

Across Australia and around the world, citizen scientists are protecting species by recording sightings, surveying landscapes and collecting samples. No job is too big or too small. As wildlife ecologists, we are indebted to this army of volunteers.

In March 2023, temperatures in eastern Senegal soared to 40°C, with the cooling rains still months away. Yet, for the dedicated field team from the NGO Panthera – committed to global feline conservation – and the Direction des parcs nationaux du Sénégal (DPN) (Senegal National Parks team), led by Mouhamadou…

Animals are disappearing too fast for researchers to record all of the extinctions we've caused.

Letter: Will Travers of the Born Free Foundation says we should all strive for ethically acceptable ways to deliver effective conservation and sustainable livelihoods

The baby loggerhead sea turtles emerged from their eggshells and began their first challenge in life: a wobbly dash across the sand to the moonlit waters of Turkey's Mediterranean coast -- sometimes with a helping hand from volunteers.

Over 1,000 new species have been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “red list” as invasive species, climate change and human activities such as illicit trade and infrastructure development threaten certain animal and plant species with extinction

Long listed as one of the world's rarest cats, the IUCN no longer classifies the Iberian lynx as endangered

The number of Iberian Lynxes has increased by nearly 2,000 since 2002, according to the latest census

Things are looking up for the Iberian lynx

More than half of endangered animal and plant species in France are not adequately protected, according to a new report by a French environmental research body.

The loss of the ecosystems, which are vast stores of carbon, would ‘be disastrous for nature and people across the globe’, says IUCN