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16 May 2007 The 67th IUCN Council meeting has admitted 17 new members to the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The new members include the first local government agency to join IUCN and international and national NGOs. The local government agency that joined IUCN as an Affiliate Member is the “Direction de l’Environnement (Environment Unit) of the Conseil Régional d’Ile de France. This new membership is in line with a resolution from the 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress that asked for IUCN to obtain members from local government agencies. The new national and international NGO members, originating from a wide range of regions and backgrounds, include the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) from New Zealand, the Bahrain Women Society and the Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral del Hombre y su Entorno (Foundation for Human Development and Environment) from Guatemala. The reasons for joining the Union, as stated by the new members, were networking, access to knowledge, capacity building, linking local experience to policy level, possibility of establishing partnerships. “We are very pleased to welcome the 17 new members of the World Conservation Union and look forward to working with them,” said Jane Ganeau, Acting Head of IUCN’s Membership Relations and Governance Unit. “We take the growing number of UCN members as a sign of the relevance and credibility of the Union’s conservation work.” With these additions, the total number of IUCN members stands at 1,056; including 84 State members, 108 government agency members, 82 international NGOs, 749 NGOs national NGOs, and 33 Affiliate members. For more information:
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