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The United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre or UNEP-WCMC is an executive agency of the United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme

The UN Environment Programme coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and encourages sustainable development through sound environmental practices....
, based in Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. UNEP-WCMC has been part of UNEP since 2000, and has responsibility for biodiversity
Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems....
 assessment and support to policy development and implementation. The World Conservation Monitoring Centre was previously an independent organization jointly managed by IUCN, UNEP and WWF established in 1988, and prior to that the Centre was a part of the IUCN Secretariat.

The activities of UNEP-WCMC include biodiversity assessment, support to international conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity, known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is an international treaty that was adopted in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992....
 (CBD) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), capacity building and management of both aspatial and spatial data on species and habitats of conservation concern.

-WCMC has a mandate to facilitate the delivery of the global indicators under the CBD's 2010 biodiversity target
2010 biodiversity target

The 2010 Biodiversity Target is an overall conservation target aiming to save biodiversity by the end of the year 2010....
 on the rate of loss of biological diversity.






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The United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre or UNEP-WCMC is an executive agency of the United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme

The UN Environment Programme coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and encourages sustainable development through sound environmental practices....
, based in Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. UNEP-WCMC has been part of UNEP since 2000, and has responsibility for biodiversity
Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems....
 assessment and support to policy development and implementation. The World Conservation Monitoring Centre was previously an independent organization jointly managed by IUCN, UNEP and WWF established in 1988, and prior to that the Centre was a part of the IUCN Secretariat.

The activities of UNEP-WCMC include biodiversity assessment, support to international conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity, known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is an international treaty that was adopted in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992....
 (CBD) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), capacity building and management of both aspatial and spatial data on species and habitats of conservation concern.

Areas of work

UNEP-WCMC has a mandate to facilitate the delivery of the global indicators under the CBD's 2010 biodiversity target
2010 biodiversity target

The 2010 Biodiversity Target is an overall conservation target aiming to save biodiversity by the end of the year 2010....
 on the rate of loss of biological diversity. It also manages the World Database of Protected Areas in collaboration with the IUCN
World Conservation Union

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources is an international organization dedicated to natural resource Conservation ethic....
 World Commission on Protected Areas. A series of world atlases on biodiversity topics have been published by UNEP-WCMC through University of California Press
University of California Press

University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing....
.

See also

  • Earthdive
    Earthdive

    Earthdive is a global project of underwater diving, Snorkelinglers and ordinary citizens to protect the ocean ecosystem. It maintains Global Dive Log - a unique database developed in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre , Coral Cay Conservation and marine biologists from all over the...


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Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System