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DNA methods help uncover further African Forest Elephants – but species remains critically endangered

A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals1, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 ...
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

New Living Legacy series from BBC Storyworks showcases the Union’s solutions for people and nature

From building greater climate resilience to restoring biodiversity, the challenges the world faces today call for solutions ...
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Coral reefs and climate change

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have caused an increase in global surface temperature of approximately 1°C since pre-industrial times. This has led to unprecedented mass coral bleaching events ...
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IUCN welcomes COP30 call to triple adaptation finance, regrets insufficient progress on fossil fuels

As the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) concluded in Belém, Brazil, IUCN welcomed the call to at least triple adaptation finance by 2035. This represents an important step forward ...
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IUCN Red List reveals world’s mammals in crisis

Barcelona, Spain, 6 October, 2008 (IUCN) – The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, ...
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The plastic pollution crisis

Plastics only began to be produced in large quantities following the second world war – but plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious threats humanity faces. By 2015, 60% of all ...
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IUCN Director General’s open letter to ISA Members on deep-sea mining

Dear Members of the International Seabed Authority, In September 2021 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, IUCN Member States, civil society and Indigenous organisations overwhelmingly voted in ...
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Saharan addax antelope faces imminent extinction

Regional insecurity and oil industry activities in the Sahara desert have pushed the addax – a migratory species of desert-adapted antelope – to the very knife-edge of extinction according to a recent ...
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Extinction crisis continues apace

The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction. The results reveal 21 percent of all known ...
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Computer Conservation

AI and machine learning is helping to advance conservation efforts in many amazing ways. Sam Perrin and Tom Ireland explore the possibilities and limitations of this fast-moving technology As anyone ...
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African elephant species now Endangered and Critically Endangered - IUCN Red List

The African forest elephant (loxodonta cyclotis) is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The species occurs in the tropical forests of Central Africa, and a range of habitats in West ...