The majority of marine plastics come from land-based sources, including urban and storm runoff, sewer overflows, beach visitors, inadequate waste disposal and...
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Access and Benefit Sharing
The ELC has been working on ABS issues and supporting the negotiations relating thereto for over ten years.
The fair and equitable sharing of the...
Action on the ground
Of the over 96,500 species assessed on The IUCN Red List, more than 26,840 are threatened with extinction, demonstrating the magnitude of the...
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Advisor on World Heritage
IUCN co-drafted the World Heritage Convention text with UNESCO in 1972 and is explicitly recognised within the Convention as the technical Advisory Body on...
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Amphibians
The work of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group and the Amphibian Survival Alliance is instrumental in gathering new knowledge and implementing effective...
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Armed Conflict and the Environment
Goals
Support the efforts of the United Nations International Law Commission in its work on the protection of the environment in relation to armed...
Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP)
The Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP) is an interagency coalition to address the extinction risk among the most threatened land and freshwater...
Bio-cultural diversity
It is no coincidence that areas of linguistic and ethnic diversity are also areas rich in biodiversity. Most of the world’s languages are spoken by indigenous...
Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
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