International Union for the Conservation of Nature

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International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) or World Conservation Union, international organization founded in 1948 to encourage the preservation of wildlife, natural environments, and living resources. Its members include private individuals, nongovernmental organizations and governments. The IUCN promotes research in the preservation of threatened species, ecology ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology.
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No references found			A third of the world's open water sharks -- including the Great White and hammerhead -- face extinction, according to the largest ever shark survey, completed earlier this year by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Great Whites hang out in Pacific's 'shark cafe' by AFP / AFP Global Edition The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates the loss of species today is 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the natural rate that occurs through evolution. A stressed world by New Internationalist In addition, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has requested that a moratorium on logging in areas of potential outstanding universal value, including old-growth forests located in the Upper Florentine and Styx valleys, should be considered. 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