World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The
UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (
UNEP-WCMC) is the specialist biodiversity centre of
UN Environment Programme, based in
Cambridge in the
United Kingdom. UNEP-WCMC has been part of UN Environment Programme since 2000 and has responsibility for
biodiversity assessment and support to policy development and implementation. The "World Conservation Monitoring Centre" was previously an independent organisation jointly managed by
IUCN, UN Environment Programme and
WWF established in 1988. Before that, the centre was a part of the IUCN Secretariat.
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