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The government has been urged to ban deep sea mining in Vanuatu.

Scientists have completed the first-ever global, high-resolution map of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs.

In 2016, members of the IUCN, the global conservation authority, voted to change its membership structure and include Indigenous peoples’ organizations as a new constituency. The agenda was released following a summit for Indigenous participants at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, and c

The New South Wales government has set a target of zero extinctions of native wildlife in the state’s national parks estate, the first time an Australian government has set the goal.

Six Coromandel kiwi care groups have received more than $1 million to increase the rate of kiwi recovery and expand their area of protection by 10,000 hectares over the next fours years. The $1,041,320 injection was one of 11 Jobs for Nature projects funded by national charity, Kiwis for kiwi.

Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak is in the running to become the first woman from the Arab world to head IUCN.

The Global Reef Expedition brought together a team of over 200 scientists, conservationists, government officials, and local experts who worked side-by-side conducting tens of thousands of underwater surveys of corals and reef fish communities.

The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) has lifted the beche-der-mer ban, reopening the harvest period for a year, starting today.

The Mt. Goplom Conservation Deed is an important signing, which sets an example for PNG communities to use land rights to preserve the unique biodiversity of the region for generations to come...The signing of this conservation deed ratifies their legal rights to conserve and protect the Mt.

Two bluefin species, a yellowfin, and an albacore are no longer critically endangered or have moved off the leading international list of endangered species entirely. The unexpectedly fast recovery speaks to the success of efforts over the past decade to end overfishing.