IUCN

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IUCN is a global environmental network that helps the world find pragmatic solutions to its most pressing environment and development challenges. Its work is focused on valuing and conserving nature, ensuring effective and equitable governance of its use, and deploying nature-based solutions to global challenges in climate, food, and development. IUCN also supports scientific research, manages field projects all over the world, and brings governments, NGOs, the UN, and companies together to develop policy, laws, and practice. It has more than 1,200 government and NGO members and almost 11,000 volunteer experts in some 160 countries. The organization is supported by over 1,000 staff in 45 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO, and private sectors around the world. IUCN was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Gland, Switzerland.