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Seasonal best wishes from the IUCN National Committee UK
With 2019 nearly behind us we look forward to working with you in the ‘environment super-year’ of 2020. This year, the beginning of a new decade, is important not just for the number of environment-related conferences that will be going on, vital benchmarks for progress though they are. 2020 is also a year in which…
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IUCN UK MEMBER LEADS GLOBAL CAMPAIGN ON WORLD POPULATION DAY
The Thriving Together campaign recognises that family planning is critically important not only for women and girls but also for the environment and biodiversity Today, World Population Day, ten UK-based IUCN Members are among the 151 leading environmental and reproductive health organisations to pledge support for a first-of-its-kind campaign: Thriving Together. The Sustainable Development Goals…
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IUCN Regional Conservation Forum, Europe, North & Central Asia, Rotterdam 2019 #IUCNRCFRotterdam
More than 20 IUCN Member organisations and Commission Members from the UK attended the RCF in Rotterdam last week. Despite the sombre findings of the recent IPBES report and against a background of dire and unprecedented degradation of the natural world, the meeting was relatively upbeat. Maybe urgency creates focus, certainly the need for…
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Join IUCN Members at the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge, from 10.30, May 17th 2019
Join us at the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge for an engaging day with IUCN colleagues Meet with other IUCN Organisation Members and Commission Members in the UK at the annual Members Meeting and AGM. This free event will include a facilitated workshop from colleagues at Arup on the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals,…
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IUCN NCUK Members Meeting and AGM 2019
Notice is hereby given that the IUCN National Committee UK Members Meeting and Annual General Meeting for 2019 will take place at the David Attenborough Building in central Cambridge on Friday the 17th May 2019. Programme and papers to follow. At the AGM, we shall seek to appoint a new Chair-elect for the National Committee,…
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Thriving Together – an opportunity to support conservation advocacy
The Thriving Together campaign is led by an IUCN member, the Margaret Pyke Trust, based in the UK. David Johnson, the Trust’s Chief Executive, provides the following background: On World Population Day in July 2019, we will publish the ‘Thriving Together’ statement and the names of the anticipated 100+ conservation NGOs and reproductive health NGOs…
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Two IUCN regions meet in Prague
Hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry for the Environment and coordinated by IUCN Regional Councillor Michael Hosek, over 30 delegates came to the bi-regional ‘informal’ meeting this week. IUCN Members, Commissions, National Committees, Regional Councillors and the Secretariat were represented to discuss some important issues which affect many aspects of IUCN’s effectiveness. The latest results…
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Hugh Synge obituary
You can read this article in The Guardian by Peter Marren, with contributions by IUCN’s Global Director, Dr Jane Smart, here Botanist and conservationist who was one of the founders of the UK’s leading wild plant charity, Plantlife The botanist Hugh Synge, who has died of cancer aged 67, was a roving ambassador for wild plants.…
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UK is a global leader in the reporting of Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME)
The Global Database on Protected Area Management Effectiveness (GD-PAME) is the most comprehensive global database of management effectiveness assessments for protected areas. It indicates whether a protected area, included in the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), has been assessed via a methodology assessing management effectiveness. The GD-PAME is a searchable database that includes assessments submitted…
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Helping IUCN Members work better together
The Global Directory of IUCN National and Regional Committees is now available to view and contains information on the activities of these members of the IUCN family as well as their contact details. You will see from this document that there are more than 60 officially recognised IUCN National Committees and 7 Regional Committees as…