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World Conservation Monitoring Centre

LC control no.nr 91001850
Corporate name headingWorld Conservation Monitoring Centre
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Variant(s)WCMC
Centre mondial de surveillance continue de la conservation de la nature
Centro de Monitoramento da Conservação Mundial
Centro Mundial de Monitoreo de la Conservación
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. World Conservation Monitoring Centre
United Nations Environment Programme. World Conservation Monitoring Centre
World Wide Fund for Nature. World Conservation Monitoring Centre
See alsoUNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
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Found inHarcourt, C. Lemurs of Madagascar, 1990: t.p. (World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, U.K.) p. before t.p. (World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) is a joint venture between the three partners in the World Conserv. Strategy, the World Conserv. Union (IUCN), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the United Nations Environment Prog. (UNEP))
Its Guide de la diversité biologique de la Côte d'Ivoire, 1991: map recto (World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Centre mondial de surveillance continue de la conservation de la nature; WCMC)
Its Guia da biodiversidade de Guiné Bissau, 1991: map recto (World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Centro de Monitoramento da Conservação Mundial; WCMC)
Checklist of CITES species, 1998: t.p. (World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Centro Mundial de Monitoreo de la Conservación; Centre mondial de surveillance continue de la conservation de la nature)
Not found inCITES-listed species database, via WWW, Feb. 4, 2003 (UNEP-WCMC); UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre home page, Feb. 4, 2003 (UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; UNEP-WCMC) about UNEP-WCMC (The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre was established in 2000 as the world biodiversity information and assessment centre of the United Nations Environment Programme. The Centre's roots go back to 1979 when IUCN established a Cambridge office to monitor endangered species. In 1988 the independent, non-profit World Conservation Monitoring Centre was founded jointly by IUCN, WWF and UNEP. The transition to UNEP in the year of the new millennium received the full support of IUCN and WWF, as well as the political and financial backing of the UK government.)