IUCN has the privilege of working with thousands of scientists from all over the world, passionate about nature and working tirelessly to protect it.
Here we profile some of the experts who are working to conserve the immense variety of life on our planet, covering ecosytems from forests to the oceans, mountain ranges to deserts.
Find out more about their work and about the projects they are involved in:
Dena Cator is best described as someone who connects people. Working for IUCN’s Global Species Programme, she acts as a link between the vast body of species experts in IUCN’s Species Survival…
25 Feb 2013 | Article
Professor Yvonne Sadovy’s passion for the oceans has led to a career that tackles the destructive impacts of unsustainable international species trade on both fishing communities and marine…
25 Feb 2013 | Article
Carole Martinez joined IUCN Europe in October 2012 after working previously on protected areas and ecosystem management issues withIUCN's National Committee in France and on regional cooperation…
10 Dec 2012 | Article
With invasive alien species posinga major threat to native biodiversity, progress in tackling the problem is among the topics at the UN biodiversity conference that starts 8 October.
01 Oct 2012 | Article
Ecotourism is one of the fastest growing segments of tourism and if carried out well, can be a great tool for conservation. But conservation organisations and managers of tourist destinations such as…
01 Aug 2012 | Article
Not many of us get to turn a childhood passion into a career but IUCN’s Leo Niskanen is doing just that—in the heart of East Africa, one of the world’s last great bastions of wildlife.
24 Jun 2012 | Article
In 2008 Aurel Lozan joined the IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM). Since 2009 he has worked with IUCN in the ENPI FLEG Program as National Coordinator and Country Communication…
06 Jun 2012 | Article
How to survive a 10-day environmental conference where you are working from dawn ’til dusk trying to convince the world’s decision makers to take nature conservation seriously.
14 May 2012 | Article
Naresh Subedi, Nepal Office? The jungle. Colleagues? Elephants, rhinos and tigers. Naresh Subedi has many stories to tell. Stories that are not only fascinating and impressive but that can also…
04 Apr 2011 | News story
Everyone knows the oceans are in a trouble but how can we properly protect them when we don’t know much about what lives within them?
05 Jan 2012 | Article
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