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Roger Crofts receives Packard Award
The prestigious Packard Award is made by IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) in recognition of outstanding service to protected areas. The award is named after the individual who served as Secretary to the WCPA in the early 1970s. He established an award in recognition of “valour” which has been used to recognise rangers…
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New IUCN Member holds major population and environment event
One of the most recent organisations from the UK to join IUCN is the Margaret Pyke Trust, with the Population and Sustainability Network. They will be holding a Population and Conservation event on the 10th July in London, moderated by Andrew Mitchell MP. ‘A win-win for human and environmental health: How conservation programmes can be…
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Belfast launch bid to host 2020 IUCN World Conservation Congress
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland have launched their bid to host the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in 2020. This expression of interest joins nine others in a list of countries offering a home for this, the largest gathering of environmental conservation experts…