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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 Faroe Islands, an autonomous region in the Kingdom of Denmark, is also treated as a non-Party to CITES (both the Danish mainland and Greenland are part of CITES). [ 5 ] [ 7 ] An amendment to the text of the convention, known as the Gaborone Amendment [ 8 ] allows regional economic integration organizations (REIO), such as the European Union ...
It was created by René E. Honegger in 1968. [10] In 1970, the IUCN published its fifth volume in this series. This was the first Red Data List which focused on plants (angiosperms only), compiled by Ronald Melville. [11] The final volume of Red Data List created in the older, loose leaf style was volume 4 on freshwater fishes.
That same year, "Scientific Foundations of an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems" was published to provide a consistent, practical and theory-based framework for establishing a systematic list. [1] The RLE was officially recognized by IUCN in 2014, to be managed as a Thematic Group under the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM).
UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen at the UN Biodiversity conference, 2022 In December 1972, the UN General Assembly unanimously elected Maurice Strong to be the first head of UN Environment. He was also secretary-general of both the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and the Earth Summit (1992).
Multiple factors are considered when assessing the status of a species; e.g., such statistics as the number remaining, the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding success rates, or known threats. [7] The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the best-known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. [8]
ICCAs may or may not fit the IUCN definition of “protected area” but, when they do, they can fall into any IUCN protected area categories. The following three characteristics are used to identify an ICCA: [1] A strong relationship exists between an Indigenous people or local community and a specific site (territory, ecosystem, species habitat).
In 2022, COP14 was co-held in Wuhan, China, and Geneva, Switzerland. The Upper Navua Conservation Area Ramsar site in Fiji Sustainable fishing in India, an example of wise use. List of wetlands of international importance