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The World's Conservation Strategy*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Lee M. Talbot
Lee M. Talbot
Affiliation:
Director-General of I.U.C.N., 1196 Gland, Switzerland; Senior Scientific Adviser on Conservation and Natural Resources, International Council of Scientific Unions.
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Rational use and conservation of living resources must be the active concern of all of us, rich and poor alike, if the world is to continue to develop in any reasonable degree of harmony with Nature. Accordingly it is necessary to recognize that industrial—and even some degree of demographic—development is not necessarily incompatible with environmental protection, and indeed that, in the world to come, conservation and development will have to be widely interlinked.

Cognizant of this and of the fundamental need to protect and perpetuate living, renewable resources in the face of ever-mounting and demanding human populations, and stressing the imperative of preserving a holistic approach to these problems of Man's and Nature's ‘only one Earth’, IUCN, with the support of UNEP and WWF, and the endorsement of some other bodies, launched, early in 1980, after several laborious redraftings, a ‘World Conservation Strategy’, in the manner described in the last part of this paper. It sets a policy for all to follow, taking mankind well away from the merely reactionist basis of conservation.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , Winter 1980 , pp. 259 - 268
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980

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