Story | 10 Sep, 2009

50 Years of working for protected areas - A brief history of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

Over the past 50 years we’ve created a network of exceptional pe ople in every region and biogeographic realm, says IUCN WCPA Chair Nik Lopoukhine: “This Commission provides information, science and guidance to answer the deceptively simple question ‘Protected areas: What are they and what do you want to do with them?’”
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Photo: WCPA