Welcome to IUCN's Save Our Species Conservation Action Programme

Time to Scale up Freshwater Conservation Action

18 July 2019 | IUCN well placed to implement coordinated conservation action for freshwater biodiversity
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Call for Proposals closing soon!

15 July 2019 | Call for Proposals for SOS Lemurs initiative closing this Sunday, 21 July 2019.
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First Rapid Action Grant awarded under SOS African Wildlife initiative

12 July 2019 | Rapid Action Grant awarded to Kalahari Research and Conservation to respond to an urgent issue facing Cape Vultures
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Uninvited guests heading for the “buffet” in Kianjavato

28 June 2019 | Tiny caterpillars are causing problems for a 'woolly lemur favourite' in reforestation nurseries in Madagascar
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Women’s Beekeeping Initiative complete training for 200 members

21 June 2019 | There is a buzz around parts of Tanzania, and it’s not just the dozens of new beehives hanging from tree branches
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Call for Proposals now open

11 June 2019 | In partnership with a Hong Kong based private foundation, IUCN SOS launches a Call for Proposals through its SOS Central Asia initiative
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Carnivores as umbrella species for conservation

28 May 2019 | Professor Claudio Sillero, Chair of IUCN Species Survival Commission Canid Specialist Group shares his thoughts
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Thank you to our partners

Partner support is critical to coordinated conservation action on the ground
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Calls for Proposals now open

There are currently two open Calls for Proposals for Threatened Species Grants within our SOS Lemurs and SOS Central Asia initiatives.

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More than 140 projects so far!

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Rapid Action Grants Available

Within the context of the SOS African Wildlife initiative emergency funding is now available to perform urgent conservation measures at local level to protect threatened species and their habitat.

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300

Species of animals and plants protected

Countries where we operate

200

Civil-society organizations supported

140

Projects supported

IUCN Save Our Species works to ensure the long-term survival of threatened species and their habitats while supporting the people who live with them.

The fundamental importance of conserving freshwater biodiversity cannot be underestimated. According to IUCN, over 140,000 described species - including 55% of all fishes – rely on freshwater habitats for their survival.
Kalahari Research and Conservation has been awarded a Rapid Action Grant to enable the organisation to respond to an urgent issue facing Endangered Cape Vultures (Gyps coprotheres) in the Tswapong Hills of Botswana.
Habitat loss is the greatest threat to the nine lemur species in the forests of Kianjavato in south-eastern Madagascar.
There is a buzz around parts of the Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem, and it’s not just the dozens of new beehives hanging from tree branches around the villages.
As human populations boom across the African continent, it has become ever more essential to provide remnant wildlife populations with a connecting landscape between fragmented protected areas.