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We link a single species' habitat to interrelated ecosystems and to people. We raise the bar both of qualifications for protected areas and the way in which we protect them.
This geographic section is organized around the work of our regional and country programmes. The ties between them are strong. It can be hard to show where one work begins and another ends. Each region shares overlapping agendas with neighbours: absorption of refugees, ocean fisheries regulation, elephant migration, or the flow of 261 transboundary rivers.
Also, they share areas that are under one global system of environmental protection, such as Ramsar wetlands or World Heritage sites. Our approach to these interlinked places is rigorous enough to inspire confidence in their long-term survival, yet flexible enough to ensure we evolve with their changing needs.
Lastly, human-wildlife conflict is one of the few crises, and opportunities, shared by both the developed and developing world. In affluent countries, the conflict is often the result of effective conservation action, when once again brown bears roam Eastern Europe, wolves howl from the Alps to the Rockies and jaguars prowl the American Southwest.
In the developing world the conflict is usually the result of our encroachment into sparsely settled areas resulting in fragmentation and habitat loss, loss of wild prey, and sometimes increasing populations of wildlife.
IUCN forges links on a daily basis, and helps develop policy and mitigation methods. Because pastoralism and agriculture are the backbone of many economies, and because regulated hunting and eco-tourism are fast-growing sources of rural income, finding successful solutions to conflicts is essential to the survival of all species, including ours.
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