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From collaboration and climate challenges to K-Pop, the 48th UNESCO World Heritage Committee concluded this week with important decisions reinforcing both the opportunities and challenges facing the world's most exceptional natural places. Among the highlights were the inscription of seven new natural and mixed World Heritage sites, the expansion of one existing site and the renomination of another. There was also the adoption of a new Roadmap to strengthen Indigenous Peoples' engagement in the World Heritage Convention, and a clear message that climate change is becoming one of the defining threats to World Heritage. Click the link in the comments to read the full blog for reflections from Busan on this year's discussions and decisions 👇 #WorldHeritage #UNESCO #ClimateChange #IndigenousPeoples #Conservation #48WHC

🐅 As tiger populations recover across parts of Asia, ensuring that people and wildlife can coexist safely is becoming one of conservation's defining challenges. This #GlobalTigerDay, IUCN is celebrating the communities, conservation practitioners and partners advancing practical coexistence solutions across Asia. From predator-proof livestock corrals and early warning systems to sustainable livelihoods and habitat restoration, these locally led approaches are helping secure a future where both people and tigers can thrive. Through the Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme, funded by theFederal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through KfW Development Bank, IUCN works with partners across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand to scale solutions that benefit both people and nature. Click the link in the comments to learn more 👇 #InternationalTigerDay #TigerDay #TigerConservation #ITHCP #Tiger Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Ecosystem health isn't only shaped in forests or wetlands — it's shaped in offices and factories too. In Japan, biodiversity has steadily climbed the corporate agenda, thanks to almost three decades of collaboration between the business community and IUCN. In 1996, the Keidanren Nature Conservation Council (KNCC), founded by the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), became the first indisutrial association to join as an IUCN Member — laying the groundwork for a partnership still growing today. That momentum is backed by the Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund (KNCF), established in 1992, which has channelled around 5.5 billion yen (USD 38 million) into more than 1,820 conservation projects. In Japan, this has meant building capacity for Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction and training on the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems. Beyond Japan, KNCF has backed IUCN-led work in Thailand and Bangladesh, strengthening $biodiversity protection and sustainable livelihoods. Nearly 30 years on, KNCC's partnership with IUCN shows how the private sector can play an active role in global biodiversity efforts — not just by funding conservation, but by embedding environmental stewardship into how business is done. Explore more in The Nature of Success: Stories of Impact from IUCN’s Collaboration with Businesses https://lnkd.in/ejx_St6Q #Biodiversity #NatureBasedSolutions #GBF #IUCN #WorldConservationDay

Every tree begins with a seed — and in Peru's dry forests, restoring that first step is a community effort. Across 3.5 million hectares of dry forest on Peru's northern coast, 114 rural communities face mounting pressure from agricultural expansion, overgrazing, and climate change. The Bosque Seco Project, led by IUCN and FAO as GEF Implementing Agencies and executed by Peru's Ministry of the Environment with Profonanpe, is restoring these landscapes with local communities at the centre. In the José Ignacio Távara Rural Community, around 150 families are restoring 304 hectares using the Nendo Dango (seed ball) technique — clay, goat manure, and native seeds combined to protect seeds until the rains come, alongside "nurse structures" that shield young saplings from grazing livestock. The work supports Peru's target of restoring at least 0.5% of degraded land annually — proof that landscape restoration starts with community knowledge and resilience. Read the full story by clicking the link in the comments 👇 #ForestRestoration #Peru #GEF #IUCN Ministerio del Ambiente - Perú IUCN South America

Seven IUCN-recommended natural and mixed sites have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List during the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee in Busan, Republic of Korea. From the climate-resilient coral reefs of Jordan’s Aqaba Marine Reserve to South Sudan’s Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape, home to the world's largest terrestrial mammal migration, these sites showcase some of the planet's most extraordinary biodiversity, geological heritage and ecological processes. The Committee also approved the extension of Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats, and recognised the ecological significance of Garamba National Park through updated World Heritage criteria. As the official advisory body on nature under the World Heritage Convention, IUCN is proud to support the identification, assessment and conservation of these globally important places. Congratulations to all State Parties, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, scientists, conservationists and partners whose efforts made these inscriptions possible. #WorldHeritage #UNESCO #NatureConservation #Biodiversity #IUCN #ProtectedAreas #Conservation UNESCO IUCN World Heritage Learn more with the link in the comments 👇

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Mangroves are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems on Earth — but they face growing pressure from human activity, making it essential to understand their status for effective conservation. IUCN's global assessment does just that. For the first time, every occurrence of a single Ecosystem Functional Group has been evaluated worldwide. The global scale matters: many of the ecological functions and services mangroves provide are transboundary, so understanding their status at this scale is key to protecting them effectively. Learn more with the link in the comments 👇 #WorldMangroveDay #Mangroves #Conservation #RedListOfEcosystems #IUCN

Yale University, IUCN and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from Latin America have launched the Intercultural Training Programme on Rights-Based Conservation 🌎 Built from the voices and lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples across the region, the initiative aims to strengthen Indigenous leadership in territorial governance and rights-based conservation. Designed through a participatory co-design process and grounded in a peer-to-peer learning approach, the programme creates a space for mutual learning, where academic excellence, conservation expertise and Indigenous knowledge come together to shape new models for rights-based conservation. 🤝 The programme is developed by Yale's Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) and the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, in partnership with IUCN and representatives of Indigenous organizations from Latin America. It is supported by the Swedish International International Development Cooperation Agency and the European Union. Click the link in the comments to learn more 👇 🌿 #WorldHeritage #IndigenousRights #Conservation IUCN Indigenous Peoples UICN México, América Central y el Caribe

IUCN highlighted the need for local, national and regional expertise in responding to the global challenges facing World Heritage sites at #48WHC this week. In its role as technical advisor IUCN delivered its statement to the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee meeting where the Committee will make decisions on the new sites to be added to the prestigious #WorldHeritage List. Addressing the Committee, IUCN Regional Director for Asia and Hub Director for Oceania Dindo Campilan said, "The challenges facing World Heritage properties are increasingly complex. They are global challenges, but they are experienced by communities and countries. Effective responses therefore depend on local, national and regional expertise and sustained engagement." The World Heritage Committee meeting is taking place in Busan, Korea until 29 July. Find the link to the full statement in the comments 👇 UNESCO IUCN World Heritage

Behind every pinned insect, dried plant or preserved amphibian in a museum drawer is a data point — georeferenced, time-stamped, documented evidence of life on Earth. Natural history museums, herbaria and fungaria are not passive storage. They are foundational scientific infrastructure for species discovery and long-term biodiversity monitoring. Yet they face chronic underfunding, inadequate storage, and — critically — a shrinking pool of trained taxonomists. Specimens that exist but aren't digitised remain effectively invisible to global research. The IUCN Species Survival Commission's new Position Statement calls for these collections to be recognised and funded as critical infrastructure. It also urges linking them to field monitoring, genomic research and international policy — closing the taxonomic gap that stands between species and protection. Full statement in the link in the comments 👇 #Biodiversity #Conservation #ScienceInfrastructure