What UNEP-WCMC does
UNEP-WCMC Activities
 The
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information for
policy and action to conserve the living world.
UNEP-WCMC does this work through three divisions:
Information Services Division: to support international
action by providing expertise, tools, techniques and information
for public awareness, education, capacity-building and cross-sectoral
cooperation.
Early Warning & Assessment: to monitor, analyse and
report the state of global biodiversity, assess trends and provide
early warning of emerging threats, in support of international cooperation
and action.
Conventions and Policy Support: to support the development
and implementation of biodiversity policy through multilateral environmental
agreements and other international programmes that promote biodiversity
conservation and sustainable management.
The Centre's programmes concentrate on species,
forests, protected
areas, marine, mountains
and freshwaters; plus
habitats affected by climate
change such as polar regions.
We also address the relationship between trade
and the environment and the wider aspects of biodiversity
assessment.
UNEP-WCMC provides policy-makers with vital knowledge on global
trends in conservation and sustainable use of wildlife and their
habitats. Extensive use is made of geographic information systems
and other analytical technologies to help to visualise trends, patterns
and emerging priorities for conservation action.
For details of our most recent activities, see our Annual Reports
2003 and 2004.
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