IUCN

International Union for Conservation of Nature

• International NGO
• established in 1948
  • oldest environmental org.
  • largest network
• HQ ➡️ Gland, Switzerland
• drafted ⤵️
  • CITES
  • RAMSAR

Key Highlights

• only Environment Org. to have Observer status in UNGA

Objective

• to find practical solutions to most pressing
  • environmental &
  • developmental challenges

Functions

1.   Acts as an advisory

• provide assistance & guidelines on issues of
  • conservation
  • protection
  • sustainable management of nature
• to ⤵️
  • govts.
  • NGO’s
  • intl. bodies
  • conventions &
  • treaties

2.   Acts as a facilitator

• helpled in establishment of
  • WWF
  • WCMS

3.   Data accumulation & Management

• maintains world’s largest inventory on
  • status of Types of Biodiversity
• publishes it’s data under various reports
  • Red Data Book
• Indian Orgs ➡️ BSI & ZSI (working under MoEFCC)
  • share data with IUCN

4.   World Conservation Congress

• organised by IUCN
• every 4 yrs
• RAMSAR, CITES ➡️ reasults of this congress

Structure

• has 6 commissions