Cemex has released The IUCN Red List: 50 Years of Conservation, the second edition of its Cemex Nature Series.
This inviting and innovative series continues the tradition of excellence that won recognition for the company’s celebrated 20-volume Cemex Conservation Series.
The company says that by blending spectacular images from award-winning photo-journalists with clear, concise, and evocative expert prose, the book engenders an impactful and inspirational awareness of the extinction crisis and a comprehension of its importance to humanity.
Since 1993, Cemex “has been honoured to work with many of the world’s most dedicated conservation organisations to create impressive photography books related to the environment.”
This year, Cemex builds on its history of collaboration with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organisation.
Started in 2001, the partnership has now worked together to mark the significant contribution of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in guiding conservation action and policy decisions over the past 50 years, and to open new doors for potential sources of action from a global audience.
“A combination of magnificent photography and absorbing expert commentary, this splendid anniversary volume brilliantly displays magnificent, endangered, but often little-known species. Among its treasures, it proudly presents 30 profiles of flagship species of plants and animals that have benefitted from their inclusion in the Red List in past years. Gripping the reader mentally and visually, this work underscores the value of the Red List as an invaluable conservation resource, a health check for our planet and a barometer of life,” says Cemex.
Through “these beautifully crafted books,” Cemex says it has sought to promote and develop a culture of appreciation and respect for nature, among its own stakeholders and, by extension, the global community.
The electronic version of the second edition of Cemex Nature Series can be downloaded from
