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Royal Commission for AlUla accorded government membership status by International Union for Conservation of Nature
21.02.2022
Builds on partnership agreement signed last year to help guide conservation across a swathe of north-west Saudi Arabia. RCU is regenerating a vast territory as it sustainably develops a leading global destination for natural and cultural heritage
16% of the world's damselfly and dragonfly species are threatened with extinction, including Africocypha varicolor, a species found only in two streams on the Moyabi-Madzay plateau in Gabon. Photo: André Günther

Dragonflies threatened as wetlands around the world disappear - IUCN Red List
09.12.2021
Gland, Switzerland, 9 December 2021 (IUCN) – The destruction of wetlands is driving the decline of dragonflies worldwide, according to the first global assessment of these species in today’s update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Their decline is...
Photo: Selma Kassem

Conflict and climate change pressures on natural World Heritage in the Arab region
06.12.2021
A new report, Tabe’a III, examines for the first time the impacts from conflict in natural World Heritage sites in the Arab States, as well as those from extreme weather conditions. It also looks at the connections between nature and culture in the management...