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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.
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 ...
Ashmore Reef Marine Park – Protected marine park in Australia, (1983), 146,003 km 2 (56,372 sq mi), IUCN category Ia. Carnarvon Marine Park – Australian marine park in the North-West Network, Western Australia; Cartier Island Marine Park – Protected marine park in Australia (2000) 172 km 2 (66 sq mi), IUCN category Ia
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 United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second biggest UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters (New York City).. The United Nations System consists of the United Nations' six principal bodies (the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the United Nations Secretariat), [1 ...
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 .
CITES is one of the largest and oldest conservation and sustainable use agreements in existence. There are three working languages of the Convention (English, French and Spanish) in which all documents are made available. [3] Participation is voluntary and countries that have agreed to be bound by the convention are known as Parties.
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 ...