IUCN Flagship Report Series
The IUCN Flagship Report Series was launched in 2021 to demonstrate the importance of conserving nature for human well-being and all life on Earth, bringing nature conservation into mainstream political and economic decision-making.
The IUCN Flagship Report series seeks to draw from multiple lines of evidence: novel analysis to bring together data based on IUCN standards, with authoritative external datasets and integrated assessment models; structured narrative literature review and synthesis; and case studies and examples from around the world. The case studies draw from IUCN’s decentralised network of approximately 200 Member governments and 1,200 non-governmental and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations, and around 16,000 conservation specialists mobilised through seven independent expert Commissions, and 50 regional and national offices.
The first Flagship Report Conflict and conservation focuses on armed conflict and nature. Armed conflicts cause great economic and social harm, as well as environmental damage around the world. Conflicts have stretched societies to their limits in terms of financial and human resources. Lives and property have been lost and disrupted, livelihoods destroyed, and people displaced. Regrettably, armed conflicts are now at their highest level for 30 years. Conflict and conservation explores the complex relationships between nature and conflict to inform policies to better advance both peacebuilding and conservation
Agriculture and conservation, the second in the Flagship Report Series, focuses on agriculture and nature. The interactions, synergies, and trade-offs between the two sit at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which calls for ending hunger and ensuring food security while also mandating the protection and restoration of nature. Whether the two can be achieved simultaneously, and if so how, are crucial questions for humanity and our planet. Agriculture and conservation sets out the positive and negative relationships between agriculture and nature conservation and mobilises new modelling approaches to examine both imperatives within a range of realistic policies.
In addition to the full Agriculture and conservation report, a concise set of Key Takeaways and Priority Recommendations for Stakeholders is available. This briefing document helps those with a particular specialism or focus to identify the specific actions which are most applicable to their field of work. It sets out key takeaways and priority messages for the key stakeholder groups identified in the main report.
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Publication 2021Conflict and conservation focuses on armed conflict and nature. The theme is highly timely as armed…
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Publication 2024In 2021, IUCN launched the IUCN Flagship Report Series, to help demonstrate the importance of…