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Introduction
Foreword
Preface
Our Six Commissions
Clarify Global Conservation
Agendas
Our Members
Our Donors and Partners
Highlights of the
Year 2006
Re-Thinking 21st
Century Conservation
Tools and Know-How
for Water and Nature
Collaborative
Approaches for the
Trees and the
Community
Adding to the World's Treasure Chest
Red List Release Llinks Melting Icecaps, Dying Deserts, Empty Oceans
Our Rapid Wartime Response Binds
Members in Time
of Crisis
Key Publications and Critical Reports
WORKING ON GLOBAL CHALLENGES
WORKING ON REGIONAL PRIORITIES
FINANCIAL STATEMENT 2006

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OUR MEMBERS
Uniting the conservation movement
Organizations continue to see the value of a worldwide Union that enables its members to network, access knowledge and policy networks, and create new partnerships.

They believe they can increase their impact and reach through IUCN. Many find the Union delivers on its promises, and stays actively engaged in its networks.

Of course, every year, there are also members that leave. While some renewal is normal and necessary, we need to pay specific attention to those who leave the Union disappointed. We know that some leave because they do not find the benefits they sought. Our attentive ears have heard the message, and we are trying to offer better and clearer services.

We are doing more to understand the needs of our members, and using that information actively to engage them in the Union’s worldwide programmatic activities. We are opening new channels of communications, for instance on the members’ portal where this year we organized the first online discussion. We organized the first-ever meeting of National and Regional Committees in 2006 to clarify the role of committees, specify how we can better communicate with them and our members, and how Committees can build bridges between countries and regions.

In 2007, our engagement will intensify through the regional meetings in preparation for the 4 th IUCN World Conservation Congress, and we aim to put in place other mechanisms to ensure that every member finds in the Union a platform for discussion and collaboration, where everyone contributes in his unique way to our common goal of a diverse and sustainable world.


   
IUCN MEMBERS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2006
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State members    82
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Government Agencies  108
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National Non-        Governmental         Organizations  734
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Organizations    81
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Affiliate members    32
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TOTAL  1037