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Are you interested in helping conserve the world’s most outstanding natural places? Join the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Academy for a free online course to learn more about natural World Heritage sites and what makes them different from other types of protected areas.

Kenya’s traditional, Indigenous practices sustainably managed fisheries for generations, but many were abandoned as colonial and commercial pressures came to dominate the legal system. Business, civil society and conservation leaders are gathering at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Leaders Forum, and the world must…

The World Heritage Leadership is a capacity-building programme that integrates nature and culture through the promotion of place-based and people-centred approaches to World Heritage management. By taking a nature-culture integrated approach to the protection and management of heritage, the…

The terminology provides terms related to conservation, in English, French and Spanish. The purpose of it is to ensure consistency across all Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ publications and documents. It is regularly updated.

Some very special areas are recognised simultaneously under several international designations, all of which have environmental conservation at their heart. These include Ramsar Sites and World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks.

Geodiversity refers to the variety of the geological and physical elements of nature, such as minerals, rocks, soils, fossils and landforms, and active geological and geomorphological processes. Together with biodiversity, geodiversity constitutes the natural diversity of planet Earth.

Climate change is the biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites, but these sites can be part of the solution.

In March 2022, the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) decided to work towards an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution.  Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ will engage in the negotiations providing science-based expertise and evidence to ensure the development of a robust instrument with…

London, UK, 5 October 2022 – At the Sport Positive Summit at Wembley Stadium, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) and Sails of Change today announced a new partnership to help sports organisations mitigate negative impacts on biodiversity and climate and encourage…