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International Union for Conservation of Nature

Global authority on nature conservation and sustainable resource use.

IUCN is a union whose members include both governmental bodies and civil society organizations, collaborating to foster sustainable development and protect nature.[1] The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which evaluates the conservation status of species globally, is the organization's most recognized public output.[2] At the United Nations, IUCN holds both observer and consultative status and contributes to the execution of multiple international agreements focused on biodiversity and nature conservation.[3]

Quick Facts

Founded
5 October 1948; Fontainebleau, France
Headquarters
Gland, Switzerland
Region served
Worldwide
Focus
Nature conservation, biodiversity
Members
1,400
Former name
International Union for the Protection of Nature

Facts from the source article.

Key facts and history

Julian Huxley was instrumental in creating the IUCN, which consolidated the work of the British Fauna and Flora Preservation Society with other conservation groups.[4] IUCN suffered from restricted financing in its early years, and secretary-general Tracy Philipps did not draw a salary from 1955 to 1958.[5] During the 1960s, IUCN lobbied the UN General Assembly to create a new status for NGOs, leading to Resolution 1296 in 1968 which granted consultative status.[6] The World Conservation Strategy, published in 1980, had its development initiated by IUCN in 1975.[7]

As a follow-up to the World Conservation Strategy, IUCN, UNEP, and WWF jointly released Caring for the Earth in 1991.[6] To guide private-sector partners on environmental and social matters, the IUCN Global Business and Biodiversity Program was created in 2003.[8] With its main office located in Gland, Switzerland, IUCN has a workforce exceeding 900 full-time employees spread across more than 50 nations.[2]

What the cited sources add

The IUCN website states that the organization provides a neutral space where governments, NGOs, scientists, businesses, and indigenous peoples' organizations can work together to solve environmental challenges.[1] According to the same source, IUCN Member organisations set the direction of the Union's work every four years at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.[1] The "Understanding NGOs" source notes that IUCN, WWF, and WRI together are the driving force behind the rise of NGO influence at the UN and around the world.[4] That source also states that IUCN created the World Wildlife Fund in 1961 to increase funding for its work.[4]

The IUCN Programme document describes the Nature 2030 Programme as IUCN's plan for work towards a vision of a just world that values and conserves nature.[9] The same document reports that IUCN's network includes over 1,400 members and 15,000 scientists.[9] An IUCN press release confirms that Razan Al Mubarak was elected as IUCN President at the World Conservation Congress in Marseille on 8 September 2021.[10]

References

  1. "About IUCN", IUCN. facts only, no text reused. iucn.org
  2. Wikipedia, "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "About IUCN", IUCN (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Kenya: The Maasai Stand up to IUCN Displacement Attempts from their Forest", World Rainforest Movement; Block, "Environmentalists Spar Over Corporate Ties", Worldwatch Institute. worldwatch.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. "Understanding NGOs", agendatwentyone.wordpress.com, 2010-06-28. facts only, no text reused. agendatwentyone.wordpress.com
  5. Wikipedia, "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Holdgate, "The green web: a union for world conservation", Earthscan, 1999 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Understanding NGOs", agendatwentyone.wordpress.com, 2010-06-28 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, "World Conservation Strategy: Living Resource Conservation for Sustainable Development", IUCN–UNEP–WWF, 1980 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "International Union for Conservation of Nature" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Global Business and Biodiversity Programme", IUCN (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "IUCN Programme", IUCN, 2015-10-01. facts only, no text reused. iucn.org
  10. "President", IUCN, 2021-09-08. facts only, no text reused. iucn.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article International Union for Conservation of Nature (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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