Story | 08 Apr, 2019
IUCN Welcomes 21 new Members
During its 96th meeting, the IUCN Council admitted 21 new Members to the Union.
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Photo: Catherine Gras
The Council, President, Director General and entire Union extend a very warm welcome to the new Members and look forward to their active involvement.
These new Members are:
- Environment and Rural Development Foundation, ERUDEF, Cameroon
- Réseau des Acteurs de la Sauvegarde des Tortues Marines en Afrique centrale, (Central African Network for Sea Turtle Conservation), RASTOMA, Congo
- Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia, SCNL, Liberia
- Action pour la Protection de l'Environnement et la Promotion des Filières Agricoles, (Action for Environment Protection and Promotion of Agriculture Sectors), APEFA, Rwanda
- Wildlife Poisoning Prevention and Conflict Resolution, WPPCR, South Africa
- Asociación de Desarrollo Productivo y de Servicios Tikonel (Tikonel Association for Productive Development and Services), TIKONEL, Guatemala
- EarthX, United States of America
- The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, TLD, United States of America
- Thinking Animals, Inc., TAU, United States of America
- Angka Sakampheap Deumbey Aphiwat, (Action for Development), AFD, Cambodia,
- Highlanders Association, HA, Cambodia
- China Wild Plant Conservation Association, CWPCA, China
- Ghazi Barotha Taraqiati Idara (Ghazi Barotha Development Organisation), GBTI, Pakistan
- Snow Leopard Foundation, SLF, Pakistan
- Indo-Myanmar Conservation, IMC, Viet Nam
- Center for Conservation and Development of Sustainable Ecosystems, ZIPAK, Iran
- Dibeen Association for Environmental Development, Dibeen, Jordan
- Lebanon Reforestation Initiative, LRI, Lebanon
- Petra Development Tourism Regional Authority, PDTRA, Jordan
- Autonomous noncommercial organization "Eurasian center of saving far eastern leopards'', ANO "FAR EASTERN LEOPARDS", Russian Federation
- Turks & Caicos Reef Fund Inc., TCRF, Turks and Caicos, United Kingdom