IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar delivered IUCN's statement to the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee, at ...

This new IUCN Red List assessment provides critical scientific support for strengthening protections for emperor penguins under the Antarctic Treaty System.

The IUCN red list also warns that five species of frankincense tree on Socrota Island, Yemen, have moved from vulnerable to extinction to the higher-risk category of endangered, ...

They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from safe. In a first-of-its ...

In March the IUCN announced that its experts had assessed 482 fungi species for the first time, bringing the Red List’s fungal members up to 1,300. Around a third of those species are at risk of ...

"It shows that we are having quite a devastating impact on marine species," Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List, told Reuters. "Underwater, you can't really see what's going on.

The IUCN Red List has been guiding successful conservation actions for 60 years, and is the go-to resource for many around the globe. With this campaign, ...

VOV.VN - The Huong Khe District Forest Protection Unit in central Ha Tinh province in coordination with Vu Quang National ...

The IUCN Red List includes more than 150,000 species. The list sometimes overlaps with the species listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, such as in the case of the North Atlantic right whale.

Bad news for sturgeons, good news for tigers. The IUCN also announced today that all species of sturgeons—26 in total—are now at risk of extinction, and 17 of those are critically endangered.

IUCN typically updates the red list two or three times a year. This week’s update includes more than 3,000 additions to the red list. Of those, 700 are threatened with extinction.

The red wolf species, one of two wolf species in North America, has a dangerously small population size and is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List.