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• W2187443586 abstract "Introduction For most of human history, nature has been considered something to be conquered. Throughout the world people have converted nature for human use—wilderness into homesteads, forests into farmlands, water from lakes and rivers into irrigated crops and energy, and, wildlife, both flora and fauna, into food, clothes, and other human needs. Only recently has the idea that nature needs to be protected and conserved received general support. In the second half of the last century the first national parks were established in the USA, and many countries have since followed suit by setting up various forms of protected area systems. Public interest has intensified over the last few decades and is now emerging as a major policy factor. The public have been made aware of the importance of nature conservation by a broad range of awareness campaigns—launched primarily by environmental organizations. These campaigns have been influenced by the results of scientific research on the threats to ecosystems and species. It was argued in rather powerful terms that species and ecosystems have considerable longterm biological values which are also important to social and economic development. The public was informed that a rapid depletion of many of nature’s resources might adversely impact the livelihood of future generations. Over the last half-century one of the largest and most active advocates for nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources has been the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). (More recently this has been shortened to IUCN—The World Conservation Union.) IUCN has played a continuing leadership role in global and national discussions on issues related to species and protected area systems, and also in educating the public at large regarding the scientific merits of natural resources and the experiences of practitioners in managing them. Its scientific networks include most of the scientists and technical experts used by governments, international organizations, and environmental conventions on matters related to species and ecosystems, and to nature conservation generally. IUCN was a major actor behind the preparations for the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. At that time there was little international interest among governments to discuss these matters seriously, and perhaps even less interest among most of the major international organizations. Soon after, IUCN helped to establish several new international agreements related to nature conservation. These covered very specific topics, such as international trade in endangered species, and the protection of world heritage sites, which include many national parks and other nature reserves. IUCN is often characterized as a ‘hybrid’ international organization since it has both non-governmental and governmental members. Its three major organizational parts—sometimes referred to as its ‘three pillars’—comprise its membership, its scientific and technical commissions, and its world-wide Secretariat. As a membership-based organization IUCN is open to institutions whose aims are to promote nature conservation. Its more than 800 members include non-governmental and governmental institutions, and governments/states, from a total of 130 countries. The second component of IUCN is its scientific and technical commissions. These have personal memberships and have traditionally been based on voluntary services. On an individual basis scientists and others committed to nature conservation volunteer time and services to one or more of IUCN’s six commissions. They comprise the Species Survival Commission, the Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas, the Commission on Environmental Law, the Commission on Ecosystem Management, the Commission on Education and Communication, and the Commission on Environmental Strategy and Planning. About 9,000 experts are members under these commissions. The third component is its Secretariat, with about 650 full-time staff. Around one hundred of these work at the IUCN headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, with the others spread around a global network of regional and country offices. This network has been expanded substantially in recent years. The regional offices in particular, but also some of the country offices, have already been delegated considerable authority in programming, budgeting, and fund raising. Governance and leadership functions are very difficult in this complex organization. At times in its history each of the three different pillars in IUCN have seemed to go their own ways—without much apparent team-work with the other" @default.
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• W2187443586 title "IUCN: A Bridge-Builder for Nature Conservation" @default.
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