• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™

    A users' guide to The IUCN Red List web site
    03 April 2009 -
    In October 2008, the IUCN Red List web site was given a brand new look. The new site has more functionality than ever before. This also means that the site has more detailed search pages that...
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  • Pacific Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus occidentalis) Photo: Rob Pople

    Surprise species at risk from climate change
    13 June 2013 -
    Most species at greatest risk from climate change are not currently conservation priorities, finds an IUCN study that introduces a pioneering method to assess the vulnerability of species to...
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  • Giant Salvinia covering a farm pond Photo: Ted D Center USDA ARS

    Giant aquatic fern added to the IUCN Invasive Species list
    11 June 2013 -
    The Giant Salvinia (Salvinia molesta), an aquatic fern, has been added to the list of 100 of the World’s Worst Invasive Alien Species. Compiled by the IUCN Species...
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  • Oriental White-backed Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) Photo: Devki Nanda

    Ananya Muckherjee explains Vulture Safe Zones
    05 June 2013 -
    A lot done, a lot more to do. That could be the Facebook status update for Ananya Mukherjee as she works to establish Vulture Safe Zones (VSZs) to help protect India’s remaining vulture...
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  • Jon Paul Rodríguez (center) receives the XVI Premio Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Photo: Fundación Empresas Polar

    IUCN expert receives prestigious award
    04 June 2013 -
    Jon Paul Rodríguez, Deputy Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), has been presented with Venezuela’s most...
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