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Our resources share the knowledge gathered by IUCN’s unique global community of 17,000+ experts. They include databases, tools, standards, guidelines and policy recommendations. We author hundreds of books, assessments, reports, briefs and research papers every year.
IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology
The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology is a comprehensive classification framework for Earth’s ecosystems that integrates their functional and compositional features. This new typology helps identify the ecosystems that are most critical for biodiversity conservation, research, management and human wellbeing into the future.
IUCN Issues Briefs
IUCN Issues Briefs provide key information on selected issues central to IUCN’s work. They are aimed at policy-makers, journalists or anyone looking for an accessible overview of the often complex issues related to nature conservation and sustainable development.
Issues brief 2025
Wild species are used by billions of people who rely on them for many purposes including for food,…
Issues brief
Despite previous policies and actions to support biodiversity, the drivers of biodiversity loss…
Issues brief
Wildlife health is foundational to the outcomes of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Surveillance…
Conservation tools
IUCN's conservation tools consist of conservation databases, metrics and other knowledge products. These products have helped hundreds of organisations design, monitor and implement just and effective conservation.
Conservation Tool
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world’s most comprehensive information source on…
Conservation Tool
– THE GATEWAY TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW – Data is the basis for sound decision making…
Conservation Tool since 2014
The PANORAMA platform identifies and promotes examples of tested and replicable solutions in…
Publications
IUCN produces publications on a wide range of topics to share our expertise on nature, conservation and sustainable development. Publications include reports, analyses, best practices, standards, periodicals from IUCN Commissions and numerous other types of knowledge from the Union.
Publication 2024
Unsustainable agricultural practices are among the main causes of biodiversity loss, climate change…
Publication 2024
In the 20 years since the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group’s first status report (2005), much has…
Publication 2024
Inland waters – such as rivers, lakes and other wetlands – are among the most biodiverse ecosystems…
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Policy brief 2025
IUCN has developed a series of key messages to ensure that nature features prominently across the themes of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) and in its outcome…
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File 2024
The SSC Quarterly Reports aims to share the activities of the SSC Chair's Office and highlights from the SSC Network, while offering a space to reflect and discuss conservation issues, with the SSC…
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File 2024
Welcome to the first in a series of webinars by the End Plastic Pollution International Collaborative (EPPIC), held 22 March, 2024.
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Issues brief 2025
- Wild species are used by billions of people who rely on them for many purposes including for food, medicine, income, and energy.
- To conserve biodiversity and to…
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Jointly published 2024
This document provides broad guidance on surveillance of infectious and non-infectious wildlife diseases, pathogens and toxic agents to assist in the implementation of a national surveillance…
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Annual reports 2024
The IUCN Africa Conservation Forum (ACF) is Africa’s foremost platform for advancing Conservation, uniting IUCN Members, Commissions, and diverse stakeholders to address critical environmental…
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File
This is a 2024 Africa Conservation Forum (ACF) Pre-Forum event report from IUCN SOS
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Grey literature 2025
The capacity of cities as landscapes to support biodiversity is accepted as one of the critical steps necessary to halt global biodiversity loss and also address the other two aspects of the…
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Brochure 2024
The National Species Specialist Groups (NSSG) aim to bring together efforts at the national level to collaborate in making the best decisions to achieve biodiversity conservation based on the best…