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| Foreword |
The World Conservation Union unites those who recognize the scale and complexity of our collective impact on the earth’s natural resources. People know of the rising risks, and ask for pragmatic solutions.
This report measures our ability to deliver those solutions. It shows how we explore options and help make decisions to transform our economies and societies. It assesses our capacity to make a difference in a world that is still defining its common future, and to shift the relationship between people and nature onto a sustainable and equitable trajectory.
In these efforts, our members, Commissions, partners, donors and Secretariat elegantly combine to give us a unique, calm authority. We plan with science and innovate with hope. In 2005, the world saw our Union:
- Invest in Oceania, covering 15% of the planet, and completing our global network of ten regional offices;
- Enter the inner circle of decision making, informing the first meeting of environment and development ministers leading up to the G8 summit;
- Leverage our unique permanent Observer Status at the United Nations to link livelihoods with biodiversity conservation for the UN World Summit;
- Mobilize our power to promote the sustainable management of our marine resources;
- Launch what will become a US$ 300 million global initiative to connect conservation to poverty reduction;
- Include France as a new framework donor, and admit 64 new members from around the world, including Trinidad and Tobago;
- Broaden our strategic alliances with businesses to reduce negative environmental impacts from extractive industries.
These accomplishments did not just happen. They are the result of a sustained effort to forge enduring linkages over time, across geography and among peoples.
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