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IUCN co-drafted the World Heritage Convention with UNESCO and has been involved as the official Advisory Body on nature from the onset. [8] CITES – the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1974). IUCN is a signatory party and the CITES secretariat was originally lodged with IUCN.
1960 — World human population reached three billion. [12] — Mobilisation in France to preserve the Vanoise National Park in the Alpes (Val d'Isère, Tignes, etc.) from an important touristic project. The park itself was created three years later, in 1963, and was the first French natural park.
February 1, 1922 (Wednesday) [ edit ] Representatives of the five major world powers represented at the Conference on the Limitation of Armament (the U.S., the U.K., Japan, France and Italy) and of four other nations (including Germany, the Soviet Union and China) voted to adopt eight treaties, including the Washington Naval Treaty , with a ...
March 10, 1922: British Indian authorities arrest the Mahatma Gandhi, sentence him to six years in prison for sedition. March 16, 1922: Sultan Fuad al-Awal of Egypt becomes the first King of Egypt following British unilateral declaration. March 5—31, 1922: Nine U.S. states get their first radio stations. The following events occurred in March ...
The IUCN — International Union for Conservation of Nature. International environmental and conservation organization — focus on environmental conservation . The main article for this category is International Union for Conservation of Nature .
[1] [2] It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972. Its mandate is to provide leadership, deliver science and develop solutions on a wide range of issues, including climate change, [ 3 ] the management of marine and terrestrial ecosystems , and ...
Ecology is a new science and considered as an important branch of biological science, having only become prominent during the second half of the 20th century. [1] Ecological thought is derivative of established currents in philosophy, particularly from ethics and politics.
In a landmark paper published in 1982, Jack Sepkoski and David M. Raup identified five particular geological intervals with excessive diversity loss. [2] They were originally identified as outliers on a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, [3] but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, it has been established that in the ...