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In partnership with the Marine team of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), IUCN's role is to inspire, inform and enable people to protect Planet Ocean by promoting the establishment of a global, representative system of effectively managed Marine Protected Areas…
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Livelihoods and sustainable use
As the human population grows, the survival of many species is threatened by overexploitation for food, medicines and cultural uses. Likewise, the livelihoods of rural communities who live with and alongside wildlife count on it as a real or potential asset to support their necessities of life.…
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Training is an effective tool to enable and support key actors to make better decisions and promote strong and well-implemented legal frameworks that advance conservation and sustainable development.
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Across the globe, Indigenous peoples manage significant areas of Earth’s most biodiverse regions as a core expression and part of their cultural identity and spiritual practices. The profound relationships they have with the whole of the natural world are a hallmark of their worldviews, values…
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Accounting for almost two-thirds of the global ocean, the high seas and seabed areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction (ABNJ) play a critical role in maintaining life on Earth. But, the current framework of governance related to conservation of marine biodiversity in ABNJ is weak and is…
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Global and transboundary frameworks
The complexity and scale of the problems deriving from an increasing demand for food, energy and infrastructure in a world threatened by climate change create a new set of challenges for nature conservation that indeed require coordinated responses between sovereign States. Increased knowledge…
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Gender equality is a human right - and prerequisite for sustainable development and achieving IUCN’s mission. IUCN is committed to advancing gender equality, including through women’s empowerment, as a Union that understands the importance of equal opportunity and inclusion, and whose policies…
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Freshwaters are among the most valuable ecosystems on the planet for their biodiversity and importance to livelihoods. Yet the freshwater realm is under threat, with its species declining faster than those on land and in the oceans. IUCN is working to raise the profile of freshwater…
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Forests are globally important in regulating climate and locally important in sustaining communities and supporting biodiversity. But they, and the people who depend on them, are under increasing pressure.
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The livelihood of millions of people living in coastal areas depends on fisheries. The issue of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (IUU) is of global concern because it threatens fish stocks, ocean biodiversity and the incomes generated by sustainable fisheries.
IUCN advocates…