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IUCN in Retrospect and Prospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Lee M. Talbot
Lee M. Talbot
Affiliation:
Director-General of IUCN 1980–82, World Conservation Centre, Avenue du Mont-Blanc, 1196 Gland, Switzerland; Senior Scientific Adviser on Conservation and Natural Resources, ICSU; Director of Scientific and International Activities, President's Council on Environmental Quality, Washington, DC, 1970–78.
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IUCN is a unique, international but independent, organization which promotes and carries on scientifically-based action for conservation throughout the world. Founded originally for the ‘Protection of Nature’, it has evolved greatly in the intervening nearly 35 years in response to current needs, and now occupies a very prominent position in the environmental/conservational movement to withstand ever-increasing human population-pressures through rational use of resources and seeking to assure that development is environmentally sound.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Spring 1983, pp. 5 - 11
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1983

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