Biodiversity Indicators Partnership

Providing the best information on global biodiversity trends

Protected Planet

Explore the world’s national parks and protected areas

CITES Trade Dashboards

Interactive and dynamic views of trade data

Carbon, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services

Exploring multiple benefits of REDD+

With our partners worldwide we source, collate and verify information on biodiversity and ecosystems which we then synthesise and analyse to create knowledge fit for global decision making

Policies

member photo

UNEP-WCMC does not assert any intellectual property rights in the data made available to it by data providers. 

Access to UNEP-WCMC datasets is provided on the understanding that you read and consent to be bound by the Terms and Conditions set out in the policies below.

Read more

Meet our staff

Staff member photo

Amelie Heuer

Read more
 

Photo Credits: Sun through the Trees © Matteo Cargasacchi; Grand Canyon © Charles Besancon; Tree Frog © Rafael Alvarez; Forest Fire © Tambako the Jaguar

Recent News:

  1. VACANCY - Senior Programme Officer (AD771)

    3/4/2013

    Ecosystem Assessment Programme
    Salary £32,000 - £38,000
    Permanent

  2. Vacancy - Programme Officer (AD759)

    2/4/2013

    Ecosystem Assessment Programme
    Salary £25,000 - £31,000
    Permanent
     

  3. VACANCY - Head of Capacity Development

    27/3/2013

    Head of Capacity Development (AD767) – Permanent Contract
    Salary Band B £41,922 - £55,897

    WCMC is a UK charity, based in Cambridge, which supports the United Nations Environment Programme. We work in collaboration with UNEP, under the banner of UNEP-WCMC. Our mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making. Since our establishment in the 1970s, the Centre has been at the forefront of the compilation, management, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity information, and has an outstanding record of achievement.

    WCMC is now seeking to fill a new role of Head of Capacity Development to work with us on a permanent basis and to take a leading role in ensuring the Centre’s growing engagement with national governments is as effective as possible.
     

Other news
 
Links

About us

 The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is a collaboration between the United Nations Environment Programme, the world's foremost intergovernmental environmental organization, and WCMC (UK), a UK-based charity.

Read more

United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020

UNEP-WCMC supports the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020.