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2008: Stopped using World Conservation Union as its official name and reverted its name back to International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2012: IUCN publishes list of The world's 100 most threatened species. 2016: Created a new IUCN membership category for indigenous peoples' organisations.
In 1948, the IUCN established a Committee on National Parks. Two decades later the IUCN had been asked by the international community to take responsibility for preparing a world list of national parks in keeping with its role as a network to share the world’s knowledge on nature conservation, and in 1960, the IUCN raised the status of the Committee to that of a permanent Commission, with ...
A 1963 IUCN resolution called for a similar international convention. [19] In February 1973 a meeting in Washington, D.C. was convened. This meeting produced the comprehensive multilateral treaty known as CITES, or the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. [20]
Among the IUCN Species Survival Commission Specialist Groups and IUCN Red List Authorities in existence in 2018, 52 out of the 135 working groups chose to contribute to the Green Status pilot. [3] In interviews of stakeholders performed by the IUCN, it was suggested that Green List assessments may be most effective if performed at multiple ...
The US has signed but not ratified the treaty, [14] because ratification requires a two-thirds majority in the Senate and is blocked by Republican Party senators. [ 15 ] [ 1 ] The European Union created the Cartagena Protocol (see below) in 2000 to enhance biosafety regulation and propagate the "precautionary principle" over the "sound science ...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump laid out his economic vision for the country on Thursday during a speech at the New York Economic Club. Trump said if he is elected he would create a ...
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 .
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.