West and Central Africa

Created after the regionalization and decentralization process initiated by the IUCN Secretariat in 2006, the PACO region was born from the merger of Central Africa and West Africa programs.

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If you would like to learn more about our programme of work and our projects, we invite you to read our pages on our work (available in French only).

From there, you will also access more information about PACO's Regional office and the countries we cover.

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African elephants Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais

Philippe Bouché
06.04.2018
Our friend and colleague Philippe Bouché tragically passed away on Tuesday 5 April, as the aircraft he was piloting crashed on take-off from the La Tapoa resort in W National Park in Niger, West Africa. He leaves behind his wife and two children.
Lukenie River of central Democratic Republic of the Congo Photo: Valerius Tygart CC BY-SA 3.0

Ministers commit to protecting the world’s largest tropical peatland
26.03.2018
Commitments to conserve peatlands in the Congo basin were announced on Friday, 23 March 2018 as the Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia signed the Brazzaville Declaration at the third meeting of the Global Peatland Initiative,...
Photo: IUCN / Adriana Vidal

Global headway for Bonn Challenge at Brazil and the Republic of Congo events
21.03.2018
Major high-level Bonn Challenge events moved global forest landscape restoration action forward last week – from a joint strategy to pursue implementation financing in Central Africa to a pledge that nearly doubles that of one of the Bonn Challenge’s most...