Quito, Ecuador, 9 December 2025 – Today the IUCN Forest and Grasslands Team, together with IUCN’s South America Regional Office, launched a new regional Knowledge Platform for Grasslands and Savannahs to strengthen collaboration,…

The “Protection of Natural Resources of the Selva Maya II” project will channel up to €750,000 for sub-projects that strengthen the integrated, coordinated, and participatory management of natural and cultural heritage in priority areas for the conservation and restoration of the largest forest…

The journey of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity has been a long process which has achieved increased recognition of the role, rights, and contributions of traditional knowledge to biodiversity conservation, restoration and benefit-…

Belém, Brazil, 18 November 2025 (IUCN) – Today at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30), the IUCN-led Science Task Force of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration launched the report…

A major step for regional cooperation was taken this week with the launch of the European Subregional Technical and Scientific Cooperation Support Centre (TSC). 

The Joint Programme of Work on the links between Biological and Cultural Diversity which was reaffirmed under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, is an important step in rethinking relationships and activating new forms of collaboration. Programme consultations, dialogues and…

The fifth resumed session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee on an international, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2), concluded on 15 August without…

As the INC-5.2 negotiations continue toward their final scheduled date, we reiterate that, while the Chair does have the ability to propose new text as an option, it still must be in compliance with the parameters of …

IUCN expresses its disappointment in the 13 August 2025 Chair's Text, as it is a significant retreat from what could have been developed from the 1 December Chair’s Text and in negotiations this week in Geneva. As the INC-5.2 negotiations continue toward their final scheduled date, we reiterate …

Plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and human health are interconnected issues that require coordinated responses across multiple international environmental agreements, including the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions and the future Plastics Treaty, but have also to be aligned…