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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.
The United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland is the second biggest U.N. centre after the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.. United Nations specialized agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the co-ordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level, and through the Chief ...
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
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 ...
Following two-thirds approval of each part, the final text was unanimously adopted by delegates and opened for signature on 26 June 1945; [6] [7] it was signed in San Francisco, United States, by 50 of the 51 original member countries. [6] [Note 1]
The first two volumes of Red Lists were published in 1966 by conservationist Noel Simon, one for mammals and one for birds. [8] [9] The third volume that appeared covered reptiles and amphibians. It was created by René E. Honegger in 1968. [10] In 1970, the IUCN published its fifth volume in this series.
The Elephant Trade Information system (ETIS) is an information system that tracks illegal trade in ivory and other elephant products. [7] Managed by TRAFFIC on behalf of CITES, it contained nearly 20,000 records from around 100 countries by 2014. ETIS originated from TRAFFIC's BIDS, set up in 1992 to track law enforcement records from ivory ...
IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). [1] [2] The enlisting of such areas is part of a strategy being used toward the conservation of the world's natural environment and ...