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In this edition of “Meet the Expert” we hear from Dutch entomologist Jeroen van Steenis. With his fellow assessors, Jeroen has been playing an essential role in the assessment of Europe's hoverflies, building and gathering the necessary knowledge to successfully conserve these species across the…

Western Africa is rich in freshwater biodiversity and regional��endemicity, supporting the entire global populations of many��threatened freshwater species including fishes, molluscs,��dragonflies, crabs, shrimps and aquatic plants. This report��builds on a regional baseline assessment completed in…

This report is based on extensive literature search to reveal the elements of animal and plan biodiversity in the State��of Kuwait, and points out missing information on other little-known groups.��Despite its small area, Kuwait enjoys a rich fauna, given��its desert and marine habitats. Hundreds…

Scientists have discovered a 43-million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious four-legged whale species in Egypt.

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The increasing rate of infection of African swine fever (ASF) among domestic and wild pigs in the Asia-Pacific region has prompted the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission (������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� SSC), and…

At the next UN Biodiversity Summit in Spring 2022, governments are preparing to adopt a new global framework for managing nature through 2030. It will guide actions worldwide to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people en route to living in harmony with nature by 2050.…

The Útila spiny-tailed iguana, Ctenosaura bakeri (Stejneger, 1901), is a Critically Endangered iguana endemic to the island of Útila, in the Bay Islands archipelago of Honduras.�� The species occurs almost exclusively in the highly dynamic mangrove habitat on Útila (Gutsche, 2005), and is…

������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Species Survival Commission (SSC) released today a Position Statement on the critical need for greater search effort for Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), calling to bring expertise, funding and innovation together to save one of the world’s rarest species.

������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� is publishing a worldwide collection of case studies that provide concrete illustrations of��how aquaculture can be part of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), sharing conservation objectives with the community while outlining critical issues that should be explored on a case-by-case basis. Today…

CEESP News - by Nathan Bennett, Chair, People and the Ocean Specialist Group, ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� CEESP

There is a growing recognition of the need for more socially equitable conservation. Yet, in both policy and practice, greater attention is still given to what, how much, and where to protect, rather…