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1990: Began using the name World Conservation Union as the official name, while continuing using IUCN as its abbreviation. 1991: IUCN (together with United Nations Environment Programme and the World Wide Fund for Nature) publishes Caring for the Earth. 2003: Establishment of the IUCN Business and Biodiversity Program.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. . Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmenta
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species. [1]
Conservationist may refer to the following: A member of the conservation movement; A scientist who works in the field of conservation biology;
These conservation status categories are used in Wikipedia articles. For threatened species and species believed to have become extinct after 1500 , the categories are based on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) Red List 1994 or 2001 categories.
Conservation-far is the means of protecting nature by separating it and safeguarding it from humans. [29] Means of doing this include the creation of preserves or national parks. They are meant to keep the flora and fauna away from human influence and have become a staple method in the west. Conservation-near however is conservation via connection.
WWF is the world's largest conservation organization, with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries and supporting around 3,000 conservation and environmental projects. [6] It has invested over $1 billion in more than 12,000 conservation initiatives since 1995. [7]
Deborah Parker – indigenous rights activist, conservationist, and environmentalist who has opposed various pipeline projects [2] [3] and who advocates for protecting coastal waters and salmon among the Northwest Natives; Gifford Pinchot – conservationist, first Chief of the United States Forest Service