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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.
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 ...
A 2020 academic dataset on international organizations included 561 intergovernmental organizations between 1815 and 2015; more than one-third of those IGOs ended up defunct. [ 2 ] United Nations and agencies
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 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and its World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) have defined "National Park" as its Category II type of protected areas. [10] According to the IUCN, 6,555 national parks worldwide met its criteria in 2006. IUCN is still discussing the parameters of defining a national park.
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 ...
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 .