COP16 has made its mark. Hailed as the biggest biodiversity COP ever, with a record number of delegates (around 23,000), a ...

Conservation status for warm-water reef-building corals was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ...

Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) will publish the latest version of its Red List of wildlife species in danger of extinction on Oct. 29. The ...

"We have assessed the status of the majority of the world's tree species, so that's about 47,000 species, and of those, one ...

The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), held in Cali, ...

More than 20 rice, wheat and yam plants have been listed as threatened on the latest version of the IUCN's Red list. The wild plants are being squeezed out by intensive farming, deforestation and ...

The latest IUCN Red List assessment has painted a stark picture for global tree conservation, revealing that 38% of tree ...

The conservation body, the IUCN, which compiles the 'red list' tally of threatened species, says the Bornean elephant has lost much of its habitat to deforestation. The diminutive elephant ...

The latest update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of threatened species has also found more than a third (38%) of the world's tree species are at risk of ...