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Candidates for IUCN Council 2013-2016: Who gets your vote?
This year in September, IUCN Members will vote at the upcoming Congress in Jeju to elect the President, the Treasurer, six Commission Chairs and three Councilors for each of the eight statutory regions of the Union. The names of running candidates for each position were announced in March 2012.
To enable Members to make an informed choice, candidates' web pages are now available on the IUCN Congress website to present detailed information on each of the 49 contenders. There is a page for each candidate where you can view personal messages from each candidate; additional background information and the candidate's photo.
IUCN Members can also leave comments and/or ask questions in the commenting spaces for each candidate, in English, French or Spanish. Representatives of Members should please clearly note their Member organization name in the comment box. Please understand that candidates may only be able to respond to queries left in the languages they are familiar with (as indicated on the candidates' web pages).
> Discover the 49 candidates here
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Online discussion area: Statutory amendments proposed by Council During the 2009-12 intersessional period, the IUCN Council prepared ten proposals for Congress to amend the IUCN Statutes and the Rules of Procedure of the World Conservation Congress. These were issued to IUCN Members together with the other Congress documents on 5 April 2012. A discussion area for each of the ten Council proposals has been opened online.
IUCN Members are encouraged to participate in the online discussion. You will need your username/password to share comments and questions on the discussion area. If you are unsure of your login details, please use the IUCN Accounts Management system. > Access the online discussion area here
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SOS Call for Proposals for Threatened Species Grants The Second SOS Call for Proposals for Threatened Species Grants is now open and will close on 22 June 2012. IUCN Members are welcome to apply for an SOS grant for one of the following Strategic Directions: threatened tropical terrestrial Asian vertebrates; threatened small marine mammals; threatened cycads; threatened freshwater African animals.
SOS - Save Our Species is a joint initiative of IUCN, the Global Environment Facility and the World Bank supported by Nokia and the Fonds français pour l'environnement mondial (FFEM). Its objective is to ensure the long-term survival of threatened species and their habitats. > Apply for a grant
> SOS – Save our Species website
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IPBES - everything you wanted to know! Find out more about IUCN's contribution to the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in a special edition newsletter, which includes: a message from the IUCN Director General, IUCN IPBES news, information on the IUCN products and services which could support IPBES, useful resources and upcoming events, including an IPBES workshop at Congress! > View the special edition IPBES newsletter here
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Motions update The deadline to submit motions expired on 9 May, in line with the Statutes, and the motions blog is now closed. Submitted motions are currently being reviewed, edited and translated by the Resolutions Working Group, with the assistance of the IUCN Secretariat. The list of the titles of all motions submitted can be downloaded on the Congress website here.
On 8 July, 60 days before the opening of the Congress, all motions as reviewed by the Resolutions Working Group will be published in the three languages on the motions website. After that date, the motions blog will be reopened to allow Members to discuss the motions prior to the opening of the Congress. > More information
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IUCN – Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award Enter an article by 15 June for an award honouring exceptional environmental journalism. The winner of the 2012 Award will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, from 6 to 15 September 2012, to attend the 2012 World Conservation Congress. Your article should focus on an environmental issue, ideally relating nature to human well-being. > More information: rules of entry and submission guidelines
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IUCN: Draft agenda and documents for Congress The documentation is available in electronic format from the IUCN Congress website in our three official languages: English, French and Spanish. You can choose to download the entire set in one file, or to download individual documents.
Additional documentation will be circulated by 8 July 2012 together with the motions proposed by IUCN Members as reviewed by the Resolutions Working Group of Council, for consideration at the World Conservation Congress. > Draft agenda and documents for Congress
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Members' Portal This is an exclusive platform for Members to share knowledge, engage with other IUCN Members and learn about new opportunities. Visit the Members' Portal to view recent information from the IUCN Council and Secretariat and to access interesting opportunities: jobs, funding and awards. > Members' Portal
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Publications IUCN has one of the world’s most comprehensive ranges of authoritative publications, reports, guidelines and databases for conservation and sustainable development.
Send us news of your new publications to: membership@iucn.org > Access recent IUCN Publications
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