The programme structure at UNEP-WCMC represents some of the focus areas of our work, including:

• Species team - Species protection legislation and wildlife trade
• Protected Areas and the WDPA (World Database on Protected Areas)
• Marine Assessment - includes Marine Protected Areas
• Ecosystem assessment - including indicators and harmonisation of reporting
• Climate change and biodiversity
• Business and biodiversity
• Biomass and Food Security - Agriculture
• Informatics - spatial analysis, web development and data management.

There are also a number of cross-cutting themes which are not reflected in this structure:

• Capacity-building
• Support to the five biodiversity-related conventions
• Ecosystem modelling
• Biodiversity conservation for specific environments, including e.g. mountain regions, the arctic, drylands