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Mark Stanley Price, who passed away on 13 December, was a conservation scientist with 40 years of experience working in Africa and West Asia. He trained as a zoologist, conducted fieldwork on antelopes, including mountain bongo, in Kenya, and researched the feeding ecology of hartebeest for a…

������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� welcomes the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which was adopted at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) in Montreal, Canada on 19 December 2022 after four long years of negotiations. We congratulate the Chinese Presidency, Canadian hosts and the CBD secretariat for their…

Expertise tends to be particularly poor in the countries with the richest biodiversity, while taxonomists are predominantly male and ageing.

Montreal, Canada, 9 December 2022 (������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ��) – Today’s update to the ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Red List of Threatened Species™ highlights a barrage of threats affecting marine species, including illegal and unsustainable fishing, pollution, climate change and disease. Populations of dugongs – large…

Dear ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Members,

As ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� (International Union for Conservation of Nature), we have an enormous responsibility. Since 1948, we have been the global authority keeping our finger on the pulse of biodiversity.

Led by ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ��, a manual to support EU Member States and other stakeholders with incorporating animal welfare into their management of invasive alien species (IAS) of Union concern has been published.

Brussels, Belgium, 11 October 2022 (������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ��) – Thirty-seven per cent of all hoverfly species in Europe are threatened with extinction, according to the first continent-wide assessment of this essential pollinator group on the ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM, which was requested and…

In several Asian countries, bears are farmed for their bile, which is an ingredient in traditional medicine. In 2012, nine ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Members tabled a motion at the ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� World Conservation Congress to phase-out bear farms on the grounds that farms may harm bear conservation. The motion triggered…

A newly released peer-reviewed paper in Frontiers in Marine Science emphasises that establishing measures to address the global decline in Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays, and chimaeras [ghost sharks], hereafter ‘sharks’) is more urgent than ever.

New York, USA - ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Species Survival Commission experts join the list of speakers who will be shining a spotlight on biodiversity at the Science Summit at the 77 United Nations General Assembly, from 13 to 30 September 2022.