IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
Organisation O0046
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| Contact details | IUCN Headquarters Rue Mauverney 28 Gland 1196 Switzerland Phone: +41 (22) 999 0000 Fax: +41 (22) 999 0002 |
| Type of organisation | Conservation organisation |
| Organisation's interest | Conservation |
| Location | Switzerland |
| Learning Group member? | Yes |
Description
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) is the world’s largest conservation network. IUCN's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
Projects
1. Forest Livelihoods and Landscapes: Livelihoods and Landscapes builds on the Forest Conservation Programme’s expertise in examining the rights and access of the rural poor to forests products and markets for those products. It also looks at this in the context of the entire landscape in which people and forests interact, to ensure that the landscapes can support the livelihoods of the rural poor in a way that supports the balance between people and nature (www.iucn.org/themes/fcp/forestissues/lls.htm).
2. Mangroves for the Future is a multi-agency, multi-country initiative for the long-term conservation and sustainable management of coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs, wetlands, forests, lagoons, estuaries, beaches and sandy shores. It covers ten tsunami-affected countries in South and Southeast Asia and the Western Indian Ocean (http://www.iucn.org/tsunami/).
3. Building blocks for sustainability - the Mountain Areas Conservancy Project: The overarching goal of the project is ecologically sustainable development and conservation, with co-management of natural resources and biodiversity for sustainable livelihoods.
4. Building capacity and strengthening institutions to support ecologically sustainable and equitable use of non-timber forest products for biodiversity conservation and improved livelihoods: The goal of the project is to strengthen the capacity of research and management institutions in Vietnam to support ecologically sustainable and equitable use NTFPs that contributes to biodiversity conservation, improved livelihoods of poor people resident in and around forest areas, and to local and national socio-economic development.
5. Conserving wetlands in Bangladesh - Community-based Haor Resource
Management: The objectives of the project are to improve environmental quality of the country coupled with sustainable development, poverty alleviation and capacity building for better environmental management.
6. Developing by conserving - Kibale, Semliki And Mt. Elgon Conservation and Development Programme: The goal of the Programme is the sustainable development of the National Parks and their environs, with focus on conservation action that has clear contributions to local livelihoods.
7. Seeing the future - Hon Mun Marine Protected Area Pilot Project: The project has two objectives: to enable local island communities to improve their livelihoods, and, in partnership with other stakeholders, to effectively protect and manage marine biodiversity at Hon Mun as a model for collaborative MPA management in Vietnam.
Other initiatives:
In 2005, IUCN launched a Conservation for Poverty Reduction Initiative (CPRI), to focus its institutional capacity in conservation as a tool for helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The cornerstone of IUCN’s CPRI is the promotion of governance arrangements geared to equitable and sustainable management of ecosystems, through empowerment of the poor, support to local institutions, enabling legal and policy frameworks, more democratic and transparent decision-making and greater enforcement and accountability.
Geographic coverage
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
People
Bill Jackson
E-mail: bill.jackson@iucn.org
Gonzalo Oviedo
E-mail: gonzalo.oviedo@iucn.org
Web URL
http://www.iucn.org/
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