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the Congress to safeguard the planet’s natural assets,

with a range of commitments – from halting rainforest loss

in the Asia-Pacific region and tripling ocean protection

off Africa’s coasts to planting 1.3 billion trees along

the historic Silk Road. We invite further promises and

commitments to be made.

Another milestone in 2014 was the 50

anniversary of

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

, the world’s

most comprehensive information source on the global

conservation status of animal and plant species. Far

more than just a list of species and their status, it is a

powerful tool to inform and catalyse action for biodiversity

conservation and policy change, which is critical to

protecting the natural resources we need to survive.

Complementing this invaluable tool for nature

conservation, we are also proud to be developing the

IUCN Red List of Ecosystems to measure an ecosystem’s

risk of collapse, and the Green List of Protected Areas,

a new global initiative that celebrates the success of

effective protected areas, and encourages the sharing of

that success so that other protected areas can also reach

high standards.

These 2014 achievements were realised under the

direction of our outgoing Director General, Ms. Julia

Marton-Lefèvre, who completed her tenure with IUCN in

January 2015. As President, and on behalf of Council,

I would like to express our deep thanks to Julia for her

leadership and relentless commitment to conservation,

nurtured by a deep personal and professional integrity

and the highest values of the Union. We wish her every

success in the future.

And, we cannot forget that none of this could be achieved

without support from our Union. We are proud and

privileged to work across a wide range of countries and

cultures, with a diverse range of peoples. We promise to

continue to serve our Members and partners in the best

way that we can in order to fulfil our mission to conserve

the integrity and diversity of nature.

The lives of people are inextricably linked to the lives of

plants, animals and other lifeforms on this planet, with

many of the world’s poorest people relying directly on

forests, oceans and rivers for their survival. That is why

well-managed, healthy and diverse ecosystems and the

biological resources they encompass are crucial for our

future.

With our global reach through a unique membership

that brings together governments, non-governmental

organisations and other stakeholders, we can work

together to find pragmatic solutions to our most

pressing environmental and development challenges.

IUCN’s strength lies in our objective and science-based

contributions to promote best practices for sustainable

use of our natural resources, where both communities and

species can thrive, as well as in our convening power for

dialogue on conservation issues.

Such collaboration was on full display at the once-in-a-

decade IUCN World Parks Congress 2014, a landmark

global forum on protected areas. As the world’s most

influential gathering of people involved in protected area

management, it set the global agenda in the years ahead

for protected areas conservation and development goals.

Through the

Promise of Sydney,

governments,

international organisations, the private sector, indigenous

leaders, community groups and individuals pledged at

Zhang Xinsheng

president

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MESSAGE FRoM ThE PRESIDENT & DIRECToR GENERAL

meSSAge fRom the diRectoR geneRAl

IUCN has biodiversity conservation at its

core. With our large worldwide network,

spanning all sectors of society, we are united

in a common goal of conserving nature and

its biodiversity.

As a leading global environmental

organisation, our work focuses on valuing

and conserving nature, effective and

equitable governance of nature’s use, and

deploying nature-based solutions to global

challenges in climate, food and development.

These principles are enshrined in the

IUCN

Programme 2013–2016

and reflected in the

thousands of conservation projects we have

on the ground, working to meet sustainable

development goals and contributing to

community well-being. This is achieved

through IUCN’s unique network of world-

class experts, whose science-based

contributions leverage action and influence

local, national and international conservation

policy and management.

This commitment was recognised with our

acceptance in 2014 as a Project Agency

for the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

This newly designated status will increase

opportunities for a broader and stronger

implementation of IUCN’s work programme

through the flow of additional resources and

a strengthened position of IUCN in global

environmental governance. It will also boost

our impact on biodiversity conservation,

ecosystem restoration and sustainable

development around the world.

often referred to as natural capital, nature’s

infrastructure – forests, river basins,

wetlands, coral reefs – provides fundamental

inputs to the production of all kinds of

goods and services. To help businesses

understand, measure and value the way

they impact and depend on the natural

environment, as well as translate this into

decision making, IUCN is leading one of

two consortia to develop a Natural Capital

Protocol.

These two examples, as well as the

numerous other initiatives IUCN is

spearheading, are significant milestones,

and are a true testament to our reputation

and credibility. They are also a reminder that

business as usual is no longer an option. We

have a responsibility to bring change in our

lifetime.

As the leading provider of biodiversity

knowledge, tools and standards used to

influence policy, undertake conservation

planning and guide action on the ground,

IUCN is well placed to bring together key

actors at all levels and respond to this

urgency.

Thanks to the commitment of our Members,

Councillors, Commission members and

staff, the Union continues to exercise global

leadership and inspiration.

Inger Andersen

director general

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A nAtuRAl union

IUCN, International Union for Conservation

of Nature, is the largest global conservation

network, with more than 1,200 government

and NGo Members and almost 12,000

volunteer experts in some 160 countries.

This unique union brings together governments,

non-governmental organisations, scientists, businesses

and communities to make the right decisions for people

and for the planet.

Through its Members, Commissions and Secretariat,

IUCN is leading the way to solve the world’s most pressing

environmental and development challenges – from

threatened species and habitats, to climate change

and food insecurity.

In many cases, the scale and complexity of the challenges

are beyond the reach and resources of any one country

or organisation. And herein lies the strength of the Union.

By being a part of IUCN, Members benefit from being

able to take advantage of an inclusive forum where

different interest groups can come together to develop

balanced, fact-based environmental proposals that carry

weight around the world. They can take advantage of the

scientific credibility and its Members’ knowledge base, as

well as the networking opportunities afforded by such a

wide reaching union.

Membership

Members come from diverse backgrounds, employing

a wide range of approaches and work on a variety of

projects and initiatives. They have all joined IUCN because

they share and support the organisation’s objective to

conserve the integrity and diversity of nature.

Overview of IUCN Members (2014)

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agency

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North America and the Caribbean

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oceania

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West Europe

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107

154

157

204

909

214

181

129

254

322

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A NATURAL UNIoN

IUCN was founded in 1948 with only 68

Members. With the addition of 76 new Members

in 2014, total membership has soared to 1,273,

the highest it has ever been. Much of the growth

in the past several decades has come from the

NGo sector, which now constitutes over 1,000

Members. State Members have also increased,

with Azerbaijan and Burundi joining this year.

Government agency membership has remained

stable.

Committees of IUCN Members

Statutory Region

Africa

Meso and South America

North America

and the Caribbean

South and East Asia

West Asia

oceania

National

Regional

Evolution of IUCN Membership

East Europe,

North and Central Asia

West Europe

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Affiliate

International NGO

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State

TOTAL

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1000

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The European Coordination Unit published

a toolkit for

Creating and Managing an IUCN

National Committee in Europe,

which provides

guidance on establishing a national committee,

using national committees as a mechanism

for implementing projects, working with IUCN

Commissions, and developing communication

tools and strategies. Further information on

governance, membership and budgetary matters

are presented, as well as case studies.

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International status

IUCN holds official UN observer status and is

the only international observer organisation

in the United Nations General Assembly with

expertise in conservation issues. In this capacity,

Members contribute towards the progress and

implementation of important conventions and

international agreements, many originated by

IUCN, such as those on biodiversity (CBD),

trade in endangered species (CITES), wetlands

(Ramsar) and the UNESCo World heritage

programme.

IUCN Members within a country or region may

choose to organise themselves into National and

Regional Committees to facilitate cooperation

among Members and with other parts of the

Union. Such committees range in size and

vary in nature; some work to jointly implement

projects and others are predominantly vehicles

for exchange and networking.

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Members also provide policy advice and

technical support that IUCN offers in turn to

the oECD, World Bank, G7, G77, European

Union, Arab League, World Economic Forum

and Clinton Global Initiative, among other

multinational institutions, and to the UN and

its agencies, including programmes such as

UNEP, UNESCo and UNDP.

In 2014, the Global Environment Facility

(GEF) accredited IUCN as a Project

Agency, allowing us to significantly upgrade

systems and standards across the entire

IUCN portfolio of projects. The new status

will increase opportunities for a stronger

implementation of the IUCN Programme to

achieve a more visible impact on biodiversity

conservation and the promotion of

sustainable development.

Passionate about nature and inspired by the

organisation’s mission, IUCN’s Patrons of

Nature – including h.S.h Prince Albert II

of Monaco, American oceanographer

Dr Sylvia Earle, oECD Development

Assistance Committee Chair Erik Solheim

and others – play a key role in supporting

IUCN’s top management and raising IUCN’s

visibility.

Also promoting IUCN’s work at the

international level are its Goodwill

Ambassadors: Chinese artist Yuan Xikun,

French marine conservationist Pierre-Yves

Cousteau, Swedish filmmaker Mattias Klum,

American singer Alison Sudol, Mauritanian

singer and songwriter Malouma and

Japanese singer Iruka.

more are located in the eight regional offices

as well as country, regional, programme and

project offices around the world.

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Governance

The IUCN Secretariat has some 940 full-

time staff based in 45 offices worldwide,

with 70% of staff members from developing

countries. Historically, most staff were based

in the Secretariat headquartered outside of

Geneva, Switzerland, but in recent years

The IUCN Council is the organisation’s

principal governing body in between sessions

of the World Conservation Congress.

Subject to the authority, direction and policy

of the World Congress, the Council has

responsibility for the oversight and general

control of all IUCN affairs. Every four years,

Members meet at the Congress to vote on

recommendations and resolutions that form

IUCN’s general policy and the basis for the

global four-year programme of work. In 2014,

the Council approved a new procedure for

electronic voting, which was incorporated

into the IUCN Regulations. Extensive work

was also done on a revised motions process

that would allow more efficient treatment

of motions before and during Congresses.

Members voted in favour of this new process

in 2015. The Council also agreed that the

next IUCN World Conservation Congress

will take place in honolulu in the US State of

hawaii from 1 to 10 September 2016.

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A NATURAL UNIoN

IUCN Commissions

IUCN’s six expert Commissions – supported

by a broad and active volunteer network –

help assess the state of the world’s natural

resources and contribute top scientific, legal

and policy advice to drive conservation and

sustainable development.

Commission on Education

and Communication (CEC)

CEC promotes effective communication and

cutting-edge capacity development to create

positive environmental change. In 2014, the

Commission worked with experts around the

world to analyse and strengthen the role of

behavioural change in effective conservation

communication. At the World Parks Congress

CEC launched the ‘Inspiring a New Generation’

initiative, which aims to engage a new

generation of stakeholders in conservation

and science. By working together, different

generations from all walks of life can unite their

skills and experience in implementing solutions

to today’s environmental challenges.

World Commission on

Environmental Law

Commission on Ecosystem

Management (CEM)

CEM members provide expert guidance on

the management of natural and modified

ecosystems to promote biodiversity

conservation and sustainable development.

In 2014, the Commission launched several

publications, including

Safe Havens –

Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction

and Climate Change Adaptation,

which

contains 18 case studies from 16 countries.

CEM is also leading in the development

of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems, a

global standard that assesses the status of

ecosystems, applicable at local, national,

regional and global levels.

Commission on Environmental,

Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)

CEESP provides expertise and policy

advice on economic and social factors for

the conservation and sustainable use of

biological diversity. It is currently working to

promote the uptake of existing knowledge

and generate new knowledge on the

interrelationship between humans and

nature. Focus is on the use and reliance on

ecosystem services and their contribution to

local livelihoods and well-being of indigenous

peoples and local communities. CEESP has

significantly contributed to the development

of the human Dependency on Nature

Framework, which will help policy makers

with an independent assessment of the

degree to which natural ecosystems and

resources contribute to local needs.

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Species Survival Commission (SSC)

SSC advises IUCN on the technical aspects

of species conservation and mobilises

action in particular for those species that are

threatened with extinction. All information is

fed into The IUCN Red List of Threatened

Species

. In 2014, among other work,

SSC and CEESP worked together with

partners International Trade Centre and

the International Institute for Environment

and Development to develop an analytic

framework for assessing the conservation

and local livelihood impacts of wildlife trade

chains.

World Commission

on Protected Areas (WCPA)

WCPA promotes the establishment and

effective management of a worldwide

representative network of terrestrial and

marine protected areas. In addition to being

one of the main organisers of the IUCN

World Parks Congress 2014, WCPA provided

support to the publication of

Urban Protected

Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines,

a new addition to this popular series. In their

continuing efforts to ensure that park rangers

and protected area managers have access

to the tools they need, French and Spanish

translations were produced in 2014 for two

others in the series.

All six IUCN Commissions provide a global

pool of science, research and action,

often working together to achieve the best

results. In 2014, the Commissions jointly

published

Voices for Nature,

which not only

highlights their work, but shows how effective

engagement and communications are an

essential foundation for the organisation to

speak with one voice.

World Commission

on Environmental Law (WCEL)

WCEL advances environmental law by

developing new legal concepts and

instruments, and by building the capacity

of societies to employ environmental

law for conservation and sustainable

development. As part of the work on the

legal component of the Natural Resource

Governance Framework, WCEL, in close

collaboration with the Environmental Law

Centre, is working on a project that deploys

a core methodology for evaluating the

effectiveness of legal principles for natural

resource governance. A review meeting in

2014 identified the need for multi-disciplinary

assessments related to the effectiveness of

law, including with the natural sciences.

Communications

Getting the conservation message out to

the public, through both traditional and

social media, is an important part of IUCN’s

work. In 2014, coverage of IUCN events and

activities reached 47,607 hits in many of the

world’s major newspapers and online sites,

including

The Economist,

the

New York

Times

and

Financial Times.

IUCN was also

covered by CNN, BBC,

Le Monde, El País,

The Guardian,

as well as major international

news wires AP, AFP, Reuters, EFE, DPA and

Xinhua. The IUCN World Parks Congress

2014, two updates of The IUCN Red List of

Threatened Species

and the Caribbean

Corals report received particular attention.

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A NATURAL UNIoN

The iucn.org website received 1,411,000

visitors in 2014, up 3.69% from 1,360,830

in 2013. There were 4,991,440 page views

and 2,020,925 visits. Also in 2014, IUCN’s

global Twitter account increased by 15,650

followers to a total of 50,950 by the end of

the year. IUCN’s global Facebook account

boasted an even greater increase with

31,782 additional followers, representing an

increase of 107% over the number of new

followers seen in 2013.

IUCN publications continued to be the

vanguard of the Union’s knowledge base.

More than a million visitors accessed

IUCN publications in 2014. Some of our

publications are unique in their field and

remain highly consulted today. Although

published in 1999, the

Tourism, Ecotourism

and Protected Areas

report was among

the most accessed in 2014, as well as

the 1980

World Conservation Strategy.

The number of visitors accessing IUCN

publications reached a peak in the week

following the World Parks Congress in

Sydney in November 2014. This trend was

also reflected on Google Books, where

November was the busiest month. About

54% of IUCN’s publications are in electronic

format and fully accessible to the public.

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WoRld pARkS

congReSS 2014

Inspiring solutions for parks, people and planet

The IUCN World Parks Congress 2014,

a once-in-a-decade gathering of governments,

heads of state, scientists, park rangers,

business executives, civil society and indigenous

leaders, took place in Sydney, Australia, on

12–19 November. Attended by more than 6,000

participants from 160 countries, it was the

world’s largest ever event on protected areas.

Building on inspired leadership of our patron Nelson

Mandela in Durban in 2003, the Congress aimed to:

The Congress consisted of an eight-day journey, drawing

on the inspiring stories and experiences of participants

and focusing their attention on the opportunities to

change outcomes over the next 10 years.

one of the most inspiring stories to emerge from the

meeting came from the people of the Pacific, whose

islands are under threat from climate change and other

environmental challenges. The Mua Voyage, consisting

of four traditional canoes, travelled over 7,000km from

the Cook Islands, Fiji and New Zealand to Sydney with

a global call to action to protect the world’s oceans and

natural spaces.

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Find better and fairer ways to conserve

natural and cultural diversity, involving

governments, businesses and citizens

in establishing and managing

parks

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Inspire

people

around the world and across

generations to reconnect with nature

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Demonstrate nature’s solutions to our

planet’s

challenges such as climate change,

health, food and water security

The Promise of Sydney

The main outcome of the World Parks Congress was

the

Promise of Sydney,

which highlights the need to

invigorate global efforts to protect natural areas, including

scaling up the protection of landscapes and oceans.

It includes commitments from countries to boost

investment in nature’s solutions to halt biodiversity loss,

tackle climate change, reduce the risk and impact of

natural disasters, improve food and water security, and

promote human health.

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WorlD PArKS CoNGrESS 2014

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The

Promise of Sydney

outlines a pathway

for achieving the global target to protect at

least 17% of land and 10% of oceans by

2020. heeding its call, some 27 governments

and 15 international and civil society

organisations announced at the Congress

a series of commitments for scaling up

protection and enhancing implementation:

The Global Environment Facility,

the

financial mechanism of the Convention on

Biological Diversity and the largest funder

of protected area systems, committed

to supporting country-driven actions to

help conserve sustainable landscape

and seascape mosaics in 146 developing

countries and countries with economies in

transition.

Australia

committed AUS$2 million to boost

threatened species protection in national

parks, AUS$6 million to support marine

protection in the Coral Triangle, AUS$6

million to combat illegal logging across the

Asia-Pacific region, and new initiatives to

protect the Great Barrier Reef and Antarctica.

South Africa,

host of the IUCN World Parks

Congress 2003, pledged to triple ocean

protection in the next 10 years.

China

committed to increase its protected

area territory by at least 20% and its forest

area by 40 million hectares.

The

United Nations Development

Programme

committed to mobilise at least

US$100 million in support of the diversity and

quality of governance of protected areas,

including through the appropriate recognition

and protection of indigenous and community

conserved territories and areas in at least 50

countries

Other commitments can be found at

http://worldparkscongress.org/about/

promise_of_sydney_commitments.html

The

Promise of Sydney

also includes

innovative approaches for transformative

change that will lead to major changes in

decision making, practice, policy, capacity

and financing needed to demonstrate the

value of and scale up collaboration around

protected areas. Each of the 12 streams

and cross-cutting themes provides a strong

message from IUCN’s Members, partners

and Commissions regarding the priorities for

the IUCN Programme 2017–2020 and the

next decade.

Panorama

To showcase how protected areas

provide solutions to some of the world’s

environmental challenges, IUCN launched

the ‘Panorama’. This online platform allows

practitioners to share their stories and

to learn about how others have tackled

problems related to protected areas across

the globe. The goal is to transform the way in

which solutions are viewed and can be taken

to scale.

one example of a Panorama solution was

presented live at the World Parks Congress

by the Mandingalbay-Yidinji people, who

created a replica model of their lands using

a 3D mapping tool. The traditional owners

shared their cultural knowledge and provided

an insight into their vision for the future of

their territory, which forms part of Australia’s

Wet Tropics World heritage Area.

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centRe of Scientific

excellence

IUCN’s efforts as a Union are based on a

foundation of science and knowledge. This

takes many forms, and we strive to track

these to enable their progressive improvement

over time. Ultimately, they will allow better

understanding of how our science and

knowledge outputs deliver conservation

impacts. Examples of IUCN’s science and

knowledge outputs include knowledge

products, generally delivered jointly between

IUCN Commissions, Members, the Secretariat

and partners, following IUCN-approved

standards; and publication of peer-reviewed

papers in the scientific literature.

Extinction risk of 76,000 species

has been assessed

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

a flagship knowledge product convened through

the IUCN Species Survival Commission with the IUCN

Global Species Programme and Red List partners, has

undertaken new assessments of extinction risk for more

than 70,000 species over the last 15 years, reaching

some 76,000 in 2014. During this period, the IUCN Red

List has documented more than a quarter of these to be

threatened with extinction. The IUCN Red List aims to

provide ongoing assessment of 160,000 species

as a “barometer of life”.

Red List coverage

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CENTRE oF SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE

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Protected area documentation is improving greatly

The Protected Planet flagship knowledge product

documents information about the world’s protected areas.

This is mobilised through the United Nations Environment

Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre

along with IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas

and Global Protected Areas Programme, and draws

from a formal mandate to serve the UN List of Protected

Areas. over the last decade, great efforts have been

dedicated to improving both the quality and the coverage

of its underlying data system, the World Database on

Publications indexed in ISI Web of Science

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in coverage from 84,577 to 217,294 sites, and from 40% to

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Knowledge dissemination through publishing

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IUCN continues to disseminate its conservation

knowledge through a wide array of publications, including

toolkits, guidelines and case studies. over the last year,

93 IUCN publications were attributed ISBNs and were

thus added to the worldwide database of publications

accessible to booksellers and libraries. ISBNs allow the

wealth of published information to be made easily available

to those who need it.

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Publication in the peer-reviewed literature indexed in the

ISI Web of Science is essential to ensure that IUCN’s

knowledge is placed in the permanent record as well as

to strengthen the Union’s scientific credibility. This output

has increased tenfold since the 1980s, with a record of

84 scientific papers listing “IUCN” as an author’s affiliation

published in 2014.

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A globAl effoRt

Since its inception, IUCN’s work has focused

on finding pragmatic solutions to the world’s

most pressing environmental and development

challenges. Through its Member organisations,

the Union supports and participates in scientific

research, promotes and helps implement

national conservation legislation, policies and

practices, and funds, operates or manages

thousands of field projects worldwide.

All of IUCN’s work is guided by a Global

Programme, which is adopted by Member

organisations every four years at the IUCN

Metrics for valuing and conserving nature

The knowledge products mobilised through

IUCN’s Commissions, Members, Secretariat,

and partners help to track the changing state of

nature, and conservation response to this.

Risks of species extinction keep rising

Data compiled for The IUCN Red List of Threatened

Species

document how, in aggregate, many species

have continued to slide towards extinction over the

last three decades, demonstrating the urgency of

conservation investment, although these declines

would have been at least 20% worse in the absence of

conservation action. The trend of species conservation

status, the Red List Index, is used as an indicator by

Extinction risk

World Conservation Congress. The IUCN

Programme 2013–2016 aims to mobilise

communities working for biodiversity

conservation, sustainable development and

poverty reduction, and is based on three

Programme Areas:

1. Valuing and conserving nature

2. Effective and equitable governance

of nature’s use

3. Deploying nature-based solutions to

global challenges in climate, food

and development

the Convention on Biological Diversity to track progress

towards Aichi Target 12 of the 2020 Strategic Plan for

Biodiversity and by the United Nations for monitoring

Millennium Development Goal 7.

One-third of important sites are now protected

Protected area coverage of Important Bird and

Biodiversity Areas and of Alliance for Zero Extinction sites

has doubled over the last three decades, as documented

in analyses led by BirdLife International. however, two-

thirds of these key biodiversity areas are still unprotected.

This indicator is used, for example, by the Convention on

Biological Diversity to track progress towards Aichi Target

11 of the 2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity.

Protection of key biodiversity areas

Mean percentage area

of each site protected

Mammals

Amphibians

Birds

Corals

Red List Index

of species survival

1.00

0.95

0.90

0.85

0.80

0.75

0.70

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas

Alliance for Zero Extinction sites

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1984

1986

1988

1990

1992

1994

1996

1998

2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

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Butchart et al. 2012 PLoS One

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Valuing and conserving nature

Biodiversity is important in its own

right, and provides food security,

human health, clean air and

water, and contributes directly to

local livelihoods and economic

development. Yet, despite its

fundamental importance for life on

this planet, it continues to be lost.

Conserving biodiversity is central

to the mission of IUCN, which is

a leading provider of biodiversity

knowledge, tools and standards

used to influence policy, undertake

conservation planning and guide

action on the ground.

The red lists

This year marks 50 years of The IUCN Red

List of Threatened Species

, the world’s

most comprehensive information source

on the global conservation status of wild

animal, plant and fungi species. The goal

is to assess 160,000 species by 2020. The

European Red List of Threatened Species

reviews the extinction risk of species in

Europe, so that appropriate conservation

action can be taken to improve their status.

It underpins the European Union’s 2014

report to the Convention on Biological

Diversity (CBD) on meeting the Aichi

Targets. Assessments of anthozoans in

the Mediterranean will support the update

of Annex II of the Barcelona Convention

– the Convention for the protection of the

Mediterranean Sea against pollution.

In May 2014, the IUCN Council adopted

categories and criteria for the assessment

of risk of ecosystem collapse, and several

national governments are considering their

adoption as national standards for listing

threatened ecosystems under biodiversity

legislation. This standard underpins the

Red List of Ecosystems, which compiles

information on the state of the world’s

ecosystems. The Red List of Ecosystems

complements The IUCN Red List of

Threatened Species

and other IUCN

knowledge products. Together they will

be an important tool for the development

and implementation of better balanced

environmental and conservation policies.

The green list

At the 2012 Jeju World Conservation

Congress, IUCN Members resolved to

advance the development of objective

criteria for a ‘green list’ of species,

ecosystems and protected areas. With this

mandate, at the World Parks Congress 2014

in Sydney, IUCN launched a Green List of

Protected Areas, a new global initiative that

celebrates the success of effective protected

areas, and encourages the sharing of that

success so that other protected areas can

also reach high standards. The sites have

been evaluated against a set of demanding

criteria, including the quality of protection of

natural values. There has been substantial

interest in this new IUCN system of

indicators since the launch of pilot protected

areas in the Mediterranean region.

A positive outlook

In 2014, IUCN launched the

IUCN World

Heritage Outlook,

the first global assessment

of all 228 natural areas inscribed on the

prestigious World heritage List and the

action needed to achieve excellence in their

conservation. The sites include Australia’s

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Brazil’s

Central Amazon Conservation Complex and

Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro National Park. While

the outlook shows that two-thirds of natural

World heritage sites are likely to be well

conserved over time, it also identifies sites

that need urgent intervention.

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Protected areas

The

Protected Planet Report 2014,

published by IUCN

together with the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring

Centre, tracks progress towards meeting Target 11 of

the CBD’s Aichi Biodiversity Targets, which calls for the

protection of at least 17% of terrestrial and inland water

areas and 10% of coastal and marine areas by 2020.

To date, coverage of protected areas counts for 15.4%

of the planet’s land and inland water areas and 3.4%

of the oceans, while 8.4% of all marine areas within

national jurisdiction are included in protected areas. Since

2012, 1.6 million km

of new protected areas have been

designated. IUCN is working with national governments

around the world to continue to meet the targets and to

ensure the inclusion of areas that remain unprotected.

A 2014 IUCN assessment revealed that at least 167 sites

in the Mediterranean Basin qualify as freshwater Key

Biodiversity Areas (KBA), sites contributing significantly

to the global persistence of biodiversity. of these KBAs,

40 also meet the criteria qualifying them as Alliance for

Zero Extinction (AZE) sites, representing the last refuges

for one or more Critically Endangered or Endangered

species. on land, IUCN launched a project with the

Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) to advance

KBA identification in four countries in North Africa:

Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. In addition, 21

grants were awarded to support KBAs in Ethiopia,

Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Rwanda,

while IUCN’s Species Survival Commission and World

Commission on Protected Areas convened a global

consultation on standards for the identification of KBAs.

Observing nature

In 2014, the Biodiversity and Protected Area Management

(BIoPAMA) programme launched a regional observatory

in the Caribbean, in collaboration with the Centre for

Resource Management and Environmental Studies

(CERMES) of the University of the West Indies,

an IUCN Member, to support the collection,

management, analysis and application of data and

information relevant to 700,000 hectares of protected

areas and biodiversity in the region. In the same year,

the Secretariat of the Pacific regional Environment

Programme (SPREP) and IUCN signed a partnership

grant agreement to host the BIoPAMA Regional

observatory for the Pacific.

Arakwal awarded Green List honour

The Arakwal have lived in the coastal landscape

around the Byron Bay area in eastern Australia

for at least 22,000 years. Since 2001, the Arakwal

people have entered into three Indigenous

Land Use Agreements with the New South

Wales government recognising their rights as

traditional owners to lands and waters in and

around the bay area. In 2014, the Arakwal

National Park was proposed for inclusion in

the Green List of Protected Areas. The Arakwal

people were instrumental in establishing the

national park and conservation area, which is

known for the remnants of a once-huge lowland

rainforest, and fully involved in its daily protection

and management. More than 65 community

volunteers make sure that visitors are informed of

the important natural and cultural values of

the area.

“I am proud that our pioneering efforts have

inspired such global commitment to good

governance and effective management.”

Sue Walker,

Manager, Arakwal National Park and

Cape Byron State Conservation Area

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Species survival

This past year, IUCN’s SoS – Save our

Species partnership mobilised more

resources and directed more funds to the

frontline of conservation than ever before.

In 2014, SoS increased its portfolio from

54 to 87 projects, implemented by more

than 60 NGos, two-thirds of which are

IUCN Members, in more than 50 countries.

Collectively, these projects protect more

than 200 threatened species. SoS-funded

projects, for example, have tackled wildlife

crime across Africa and Asia, and saw the

reintroduction of mangrove finches in the

Galapagos Islands. SoS is a global coalition

initiated by the three founding partners

– IUCN, the Global Environment Facility

and the World Bank – to build the biggest

species conservation fund supporting

field-level conservation projects all over

the world.

In a separate initiative in Asia, a new

Integrated Tiger habitat Conservation

Programme managed by IUCN was

established with support of the German

government through the KfW Development

Bank to help increase the number of tigers

in the wild and improve the livelihoods of

communities living in and around key tiger

habitats. Through this five-year programme,

IUCN seeks to invest in projects that involve

improving the management of tiger habitats,

tackling tiger-human conflicts, increasing

anti-poaching and law enforcement efforts

and involving local communities in tiger

conservation.

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Effective and equitable

governance of nature’s use

Sharing power, responsibility

and benefits in natural resource

management, and strengthening

governance arrangements to make

decisions more transparent, inclusive

and equitable, are good for both

people and biodiversity. IUCN works

with its Members, Commissions,

and partners to support the effective

and equitable governance of

nature’s use at all relevant levels:

stewardship of natural resources

by indigenous peoples, integrated

management of protected areas and

natural resources, and national and

international decision making for

sustainable development. In 2014,

IUCN, through its many projects and

activities, contributed to the equitable

governance of parks and protected

areas to empower communities to

become involved and to benefit.

Shared governance

Governance has become the focus of several

parts of IUCN’s work programme, including

the development of the Natural Resource

Governance Framework, which aims to

contribute to better, more just governance

assessment and improve decision making

and action that takes account of rights

and local culture, values and priorities. In

2014, the framework was further developed

through workshops and activities in

Mesoamerica, Eastern and Southern Africa,

and Asia. In addition, more analytical work

was undertaken focusing on the impact of

rights-based approaches, as well as the start

of an inquiry guide.

As part of its focus on promoting good

governance, IUCN has worked at the local,

national and international level to support

the rights of indigenous peoples in the

management and conservation of their lands,

territories and resources. In Nicaragua, IUCN

partnered with Mayangna communities

living in the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve to

safeguard those rights, leading to a protocol

to ensure free, prior and informed consent.

The agreement gives the Mayangna the right

to give or withhold its consent to proposed

projects that may affect their lands. Based on

this and other successful examples, the IUCN

CEESP provided support for a Guide on

Conservation and Indigenous Peoples, which

outlines how to apply a minimum standard

for natural resource governance and for

decision making and working with indigenous

peoples.

Women’s rights

Recognising the critical role of women and

gender equality in tackling climate change,

IUCN has supported several countries

to create Climate Change Gender Action

Plans (ccGAPs). In 2014, IUCN’s Global

Gender office facilitated a ccGAP in

Cuba, which specifically identified ground-

breaking adaptation and mitigation activities

already being conducted by women and

women’s groups. At the UN climate change

conference in Lima, Peru, IUCN worked with

governments and others to help secure the

Lima Work Programme on Gender (LWPG),

a two-year programme for promoting gender

balance and achieving gender-responsive

climate policy.

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Sustainable Development Goals

one of the most important outcomes of the Rio+20 UN

Conference on Sustainable Development was the decision

by governments to develop and adopt a set of Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for pursuing

focused and coherent action on sustainable development.

IUCN’s analyses and position papers contributed to

the UN discussions on the SDGs in 2014, ensuring that

biodiversity conservation is properly reflected. This work

has been particularly key in ensuring that the SDGs build

from the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and its

Aichi Biodiversity Targets, and that the SDG framework

does not put environmental considerations in a silo, the

way the MDGs had done, rather than integrating them

with the social and economic dimensions.

IUCN at the UN

At the 12

Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to

the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Parties

recognised the considerable scale of illegal trade in wildlife

and its detrimental economic, social and environmental

consequences, as well as the importance of embedding

a livelihood and governance perspective to address the

challenge. IUCN provided governments that are Parties

to the CBD with best practices in integrating biodiversity

into development planning processes and/or poverty

reduction strategies.

IUCN continues to advise Parties to the Convention on

International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna

and Flora (CITES) in determining sustainable harvest

and trade levels of species. In 2014, IUCN and TRAFFIC

produced two reports on determining sustainable trade

levels for perennial plants and shark species that were

presented to the CITES Plants and Animals Committees

and are being used by CITES Parties for determining

allowable trade levels.

IUCN, its Members and other international NGo partners

also played a key role in UN discussions that will lead to a

formal preparatory process for a global and legally-binding

instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the

Sea (UNCLoS) for the conservation and sustainable use

of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. The

new instrument will be developed through a Preparatory

Committee starting in 2016. For over a decade, IUCN has

been fostering the scientific knowledge and legal analysis

to understand how to better manage the vast marine

realm beyond national boundaries.

In 2012, the world’s governments agreed to establish

the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and

Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to assess the state of the

planet’s biodiversity, its ecosystems and the essential

services they provide to society. IUCN has been

involved in the IPBES negotiations since their beginning

and supports ongoing work leading to the Platform’s

full functionality. The Union is particularly focused on

supporting stakeholder engagement into IPBES, and

in 2014 compiled extensive suggestions regarding the

components of the IPBES work programme.

Deploying nature-based solutions

to global challenges in climate,

food and development

Tackling climate change, securing clean air

and water, and ensuring sustainable food

production is fundamental to the planet’s future.

Nature can contribute many of the solutions

towards addressing these problems. These

contributions range from natural flood defences

to carbon storage, from clean drinking water

supply in forests and wetlands to urban green

spaces. They also secure enormous direct and

indirect economic benefits and create local

jobs. IUCN works with governments, the private

sector and communities around the world to

promote nature-based solutions, helping to

restore forests, rivers, wetlands and ocean.

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Depending on nature

The human Dependency on Nature Framework aims to

promote the uptake of existing knowledge and generate

new knowledge on the interrelationship between humans

and nature. Empirical data collected on the benefits that

indigenous peoples and local communities derive from

the use of species and ecosystems will be analysed to

contribute to policy formulation. In 2014, IUCN worked

with Members and partners to develop surveys to

capture information for the framework and some early

integration work brought together data sets from species

assessments and nutrition data in the Sixaola water basin

in Costa Rica. This work helped develop the conceptual

framework and provides a set of approaches and tools to

pilot in early application sites in 2015.

Adapting to climate change

IUCN is one of the world’s leading organisations engaged

in Ecosystem-based Adaptation, working with local

partners in 58 EbA-related projects in 67 countries since

2008. At the 2014 UN climate change meeting in Lima,

IUCN launched the report

Ecosystem Based Adaptation:

Knowledge Gaps in Making an Economic Case for

Investing in Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change

as well as

Safe Havens,

which presents 18 case studies

to demonstrate how protected areas can be better

managed for disaster risk reduction and climate change

adaptation. In the same year, the Union published a

mapping analysis of IUCN’s ecosystem-based adaptation

projects. one project in Thailand’s Kok Klang village in

the Nam Phung River Basin is helping the community

diversify its agricultural crops – rice, rubber and

sugarcane – to decrease vulnerability to climate change,

introducing native varieties that are more heat-resistant.

Restoring and protecting landscapes

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest

degradation (REDD+) has the potential to improve lives,

protect forests and biodiversity, and mitigate climate

change. IUCN promotes REDD+ at the national and

international level, including in bilateral and multilateral

processes, such as at meetings of the United Nations

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

In addition to their role in adaptation, protected areas,

including community-conserved areas, are a proven

approach for helping avoid emissions from deforestation

and degradation. To meet the global Bonn Challenge

– the world’s largest restoration movement – to restore

150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands

by 2020, IUCN published the Restoration opportunities

Assessment Methodology report, which assesses forest

landscape restoration opportunities at the national and

sub-national level. The methodology will be used by 10

national governments to frame their national restoration

policies.

other REDD+ projects in 2014 include working with the

indigenous Shampuyacu community in Peru to take

actions that contribute to climate change mitigation

while increasing the natural and human capital in their

communal lands. These actions involve improving

coffee production with the introduction of agroforestry

systems and best practices and the restoration of riparian

ecosystems.

Bridging the water gap

The BRIDGE (Building River Dialogue and Governance)

project builds water governance capacities through

learning, demonstration, leadership and consensus-

building, especially between local communities and their

governments. Since 2014, a number of river basins in

Africa have been added to the BRIDGE project portfolio,

including Lake Chad and Lake Nyasa, and the Mano

and Pungwe rivers. BRIDGE is also being implemented

in nine transboundary river basins in Latin America and

Asia, contributing to Viet Nam becoming the 35

country

to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-

Navigational Uses of International Watercourses.

The regional Knowledge Network on Water (rKNoW)

was launched in 2014 to strengthen water management

in the water-stressed Middle East. The knowledge-

sharing portal has information on water governance,

water and climate change, sustainable water

technologies, and the water-energy-food nexus, with

demonstrated success stories from Lebanon, Jordan,

Morocco, Egypt and Palestine.

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Mangroves for the Future

In 2014, IUCN and partners announced the third phase

of the Mangroves for the Future initiative, which will

focus on integrating considerations of gender into its

programming. A regional gender advisory panel was set

up to provide a better understanding of the roles of men

and women, and the gender gaps that exist, in coastal-

resource dependent communities. Several projects

are already successfully demonstrating the benefits of

integrating gender into programme. In Gorontalo Province

in Indonesia, five women’s groups established a women’s

mangrove network, and their members are leading a

mangrove-based food processing business. Nearby,

women are rehabilitating mangrove areas and engaging

in crab rearing to provide alternative income.

Promoting community rights

In Guatemala, IUCN’s Mesoamerica team worked with

indigenous communities to improve their management

practices in cocoa production, while decreasing pressure

on the biodiversity-rich Laguna Lachua Park. This

increased production levels and improved quality; they

now export top quality cocoa grains to the US market. In

Ecuador, IUCN worked with TRAFFIC and women from

the Waorani community to develop cocoa production to

increase incomes and social recognition, while reducing

unsustainable use of forest resources, particularly hunting

for sale of bush meat.

In the Cahoacan Basin in Mexico, IUCN worked with

local partners to help protect, restore and manage

4,000 hectares of forest and jungle agroforestry systems

through a local Payment for Environmental Services (PES)

mechanism. Training local communities has resulted in

increased tree cover and natural barriers in the Cahoacan

River basin and contributes to longer-term resilience.

In Brazil, an IUCN project helped tobacco farmers

supply sustainable firewood to the tobacco production

chain. More than 1,000 families who provided firewood

to Phillip Morris tobacco producers began working on

restoration and landscape management to ensure not

only the production of wood, but also the provision of

environmental services such as water and wood.

Conserving island environments

Memoranda of understanding with three resorts to

improve their environmental practices and management

of their coral reefs were signed thanks to an IUCN

marine project in the Maldives. IUCN is working with

the resorts to develop and declare their coral reefs –

home to threatened sea turtles, manta rays and sharks

– as privately managed areas and to accelerate the

designation of marine protected areas.

IUCN, through its Global Marine Programme, is playing

a key role in shaping a funding mechanism targeted at

biodiversity conservation in European Union overseas

entities. The 18 projects funded through the first phase

of the initiative have brought some measurable results,

including the eradication of invasive alien species in

two projects, one in French Polynesia and one in the

Caribbean. Rat eradication on Dog Island in Anguilla,

officially rat-free in 2014, has led to a rapid increase in

both bird and reptile populations.

Greening urban spaces

As a major partner of the successful URBES (Urban

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) project, IUCN

experts worked with urban planners and decision makers

in Barcelona, Rotterdam, Berlin and other European cities

to protect and develop their urban green spaces. A series

of factsheets were created to communicate to urban

planners the value of natural capital for sustainable

urban life.

The importance of education

The CEC has been working with IUCN’s Eastern

and Southern Africa regional office to produce a

documentary showing how communities living around

Mt Elgon in Kenya and Uganda use natural solutions

to help tackle environmental challenges efficiently. The

video is meant as a tool for training sessions for county

government officials of different departments in both

countries to actively engage their sector in rolling out

the IUCN approach for ecosystem-based solutions for

climate change.

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WoRking

in pARtneRShip

IUCN counts on the support of a large

network of partners who help fund its

activities, implement the IUCN Programme,

or offer their knowledge and expertise to

support the Union’s work. This work is made

possible through the generous contributions

of a growing number of donors and partners,

including governments, multilateral institutions,

intergovernmental and non-governmental

organisations, international conventions,

foundations, companies and individuals.

IUCN’s largest source of funding continues

to be official Development Assistance (oDA),

which represented over 67% of IUCN’s

annual budget in 2014. Income from bilateral

institutions represented 48%, while multilateral

institutions represented 19%. Income from

foundations has followed a positive trend and

contributed over 8%.

Framework Partners

In 2014, IUCN strengthened engagement with its

Framework Partners, that provide critical multi-year

funding to implement the IUCN Programme. Framework

Partners also fund specific thematic initiatives and

projects at the global, regional or country level.

Framework Partners

•

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (Danida)

•

Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD)

•

French Agency for Development (AFD)

•

MAVA Foundation

•

Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea

•

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland

•

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

(Norad)

•

Swedish International Development Cooperation

Agency (Sida)

•

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

(SDC)

Donor diversity (in CHF millions)

2014

2013

Governments

Multilaterals and Conventions

Members

Foundations and Institutions

Non-Governmental organisations

Corporations

other income

TOTAL

53.5

– 48%

21.1

– 19%

12.1

– 11%

9.0

– 8%

5.1

– 5%

4.6

– 4%

6.2

– 6%

111.6

– 100%

53.8

– 47%

16.2

– 14%

12.4

– 11%

9.0

– 8%

7.8

– 7%

5.5

– 5%

8.9

– 8%

113.6

– 100%

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23.

The US State Department continues to support

IUCN through an annual voluntary contribution and

participates in key strategic discussions and meetings

with IUCN’s Framework Partners. The Government

of Germany, through the German Development Bank

(KfW), launched a €20 million Integrated Tiger Habitat

Conservation Programme (IThCP). The IUCN-managed

Programme aims to increase the number of tigers in the

wild and improve the livelihoods of communities living

in and around key tiger habitats. With less than 2,500

adult individuals believed to be surviving in the wild –

down from 100,000 a century ago – the tiger is listed

as Endangered on The IUCN Red List of Threatened

Species

IUCN also strengthened its collaboration in 2014 with the

governments of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom,

Spain, Japan, Austria and Italy, as well as with a number

of multilateral and regional institutions, including the

European Union, the World Bank, the African and Asian

Development banks, CITES, UNESCo, IFAD, Who,

UNDP and UNEP.

In May 2014, IUCN became a fully accredited Project

Agency for the Global Environmental Facility (GEF),

and will work with the GEF Secretariat, partners and

IUCN State Members to identify strategic engagement

opportunities.

In November 2014, two of IUCN’s Patrons of Nature

– Jessica and Adam Sweidan of Synchronicity Earth –

organised the Biophilia Ball at the Natural history Museum

in London to celebrate the 50

Anniversary of the Red List

of Threatened Species at a fundraising gala. This was one

of many events organised during 2014 to celebrate this

important milestone.

IUCN and the Drosos Foundation, which focuses its

support on poverty eradication, environment protection,

health and education in the southern Mediterranean,

entered into a partnership to support sustainable fishing

and income generation activities in the southern Lebanese

city of Tyre.

In the US, IUCN’s office in Washington DC, supported by

The Rockefeller Foundation, is leading an engagement

with international finance institutions to support the

integration of biodiversity into investment decision making.

The goal is to: create a fund to support the transition to

sustainable value chain practices by companies with

biodiversity dependencies; use biodiversity data to inform

credit risk assessments; create a tax break to benefit

companies that use internal natural capital accounting

methods; and develop investment vehicles to increase the

volume of finance going into conservation.

Private sector

What do automotive, coffee roasting, packaging and

mining companies have in common? Why is one of the

world’s biggest cement companies, holcim, integrating

biodiversity standards into its policies and practices,

and serving as a test case for other industries? IUCN is

working in key industries to reduce their environmental

footprint and generate greater conservation benefits.

As part of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

convened by IUCN, leaders from the aluminium sector

have agreed on a landmark standard that aims to improve

the industry’s environmental, social and governance

performance throughout its entire value chain. The new

standard focuses on key issues, such as biodiversity,

transparency, greenhouse gas emissions and human

rights. The group responsible for the new standard

includes 28 members – from industry experts at the

Foundations

An increasing number of foundations from the United

States, Europe and Asia are looking to support IUCN’s

mission. In April 2014, IUCN’s Thailand Programme and

the FREELAND Foundation entered into a Memorandum

of Understanding to cooperate in areas that further the

protection and conservation of Thailand’s natural heritage.

Also in the region, IUCN is implementing a transboundary

dolphin conservation project with the financial support

of the Swedish Postcode Lottery along the coastline

of Thailand and Cambodia. Four dolphin and porpoise

species listed in the IUCN Red List are found in this area

of the Eastern Gulf of Thailand: Irrawaddy dolphin, finless

porpoise, Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin and false

killer whale.

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BMW Group, hydro, Nestlé Nespresso SA

and Rio Tinto Alcan to representatives from

Fauna & Flora International, Forest Peoples

Programme and IndustriALL Global Union.

A collaboration between IUCN and

Nespresso, with IUCN’s NGo Member IPÊ –

Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas (Institute

for Ecological Research), is addressing

ecosystem service dependencies and

natural resource depletion in Brazil’s

biologically diverse Cerrado biome. Together,

the partners developed a multi-stakeholder

consortium with business, government and

civil society. The consortium agreed on an

action plan that supports knowledge sharing

and capacity building to shift behaviour and

community attitudes towards sustainability

in the region. It also focuses on strategic

compliance of coffee farms with Brazil’s

Forest Code for landscape-level ecosystem

service benefits. As a result, the Cerrado

region now has a viable option for building

a new paradigm focused on long-term,

sustainable solutions.

Following a 2003 commitment by the

International Council on Mining and Metals

(ICMM) and its member companies to not

explore or mine in World heritage sites,

and instead contribute to biodiversity

conservation and integrated land use

planning, an independent review of

ICMM member companies’ biodiversity

management systems was undertaken to

assess progress during the last decade.

The report, which was discussed at the

World Parks Congress in Sydney, showed

improved biodiversity management

performance across the companies, as

well as highlighted emerging issues and

areas for further action to improve the

mining industry’s contribution to biodiversity

conservation.

IUCN and holcim, a global building materials

company, completed the second phase of

a seven-year engagement that supports

the implementation of biodiversity and

water management in the cement and

construction sectors. Key outputs of the

relationship include a system for managing

biodiversity risks and opportunities at the

company level, a biodiversity indicator

and reporting system to help companies

measure their effectiveness in safeguarding

biodiversity in their operations, and a guide

on regulatory tools for policy makers to

strengthen biodiversity standards within the

building materials sector.

Also in 2014, IUCN was appointed by

the Natural Capital Coalition to lead a

consortium of experts, which will work

alongside another group led by the

World Business Council for Sustainable

Development (WBCSD), to develop a Natural

Capital Protocol. The protocol will help

businesses across the world understand,

measure and value the way they impact

and depend on the natural environment

– information that is crucial in business

decision making and risk management and

which until now has been invisible.

other IUCN engagements also support

independent scientific review processes,

such as the Niger Delta Panel funded by

Shell Nigeria, and the Western Gray Whale

Advisory Panel with Sakhalin Energy in the

Russian Far East.

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25.

OUR PARTNERS

Framework Partners

Programme

and Project Partners

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland

French Development Agency

Ministry of Environment,

republic of Korea

Norwegian Agency for Development

Cooperation

Swedish International Development

Cooperation Agency

Swiss Agency for Development

and Cooperation

Environmental Agency - Abu Dhabi,

United Arab Emirates

MAVA Foundation

(contributions received in 2014

above ChF 200,000)

Governments

Australian Agency for International

Development

Bangladesh Forest Department

Republic of Cameroon

Regional Ministry for Environment

and Spatial Planning, Government

of Andalucia, Spain

German Agency for International

Cooperation - Gmbh

Federal Ministry for Economic

Cooperation and Development,

Germany

Federal Ministry for the Environment,

Nature Conservation, Building and

Nuclear Safety, Germany

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Directorate General for Development

Cooperation

KfW

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Directorate-General for International

Cooperation, The Netherlands

Department for International

Development, United Kingdom

Department of State,

United States of America

United States Agency for

International Development

World Heritage Convention

Food and Agriculture organization

of the United Nations

Global Environment Facility

West African Economic and

Monetary Union

United Nations Development

Programme

United Nations Educational,

Scientific and Cultural organization

United Nations Environment

Programme

The World Bank Group

Multilateral Agencies

African Development Bank

Central African Forest Commission

International Fund for Agricultural

Development

International Tropical Timber

organization

International organisation

of La Francophonie

European Commission

Non-Governmental

Organisations

IUCN National Committee

of The Netherlands

Conservation International

International Institute for

Environment and Development

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Stockholm Resilience Centre

The Nature Conservancy

TRAFFIC International

World Resources Institute

WWF International

Foundations

The Aage V. Jensen

Charity Foundation

Arcus Foundation

Audemars Piguet Foundation

Drosos Foundation

Fondación Gonzalo Rio Arronte

I.A.P. Mexico

Fondation Segré

Private Sector

Ford Foundation

Black Mountain Mining (Pty) Ltd

Development Alternatives

Incorporated

Rio Tinto

IUCN-US

Sakhalin Energy Investment

Company Limited

Shell International

Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation

for the Americas

Swedish Postcode Lottery

Foundation

Keidanren Nature Conservation

Fund

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur

Foundation

The Howard G. Buffett Foundation

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in the gReen

IUCN’s total income in 2014 was ChF 112m compared to

CHF 114m in 2013.

Membership dues decreased from CHF 12.4m in 2013 to

ChF 12.1m in 2014. Although 61 new Members joined in

2014, others left due to financial difficulties.

Contributions from Framework Partners (funding from

governments and other partners not tied to particular

programmes or projects) amounted to ChF 16.8m

(compared to CHF 16.9m in 2013). There were no new

framework agreements in 2014.

IUCN’s project portfolio remains healthy. During the

course of 2014, new project agreements with a total

value of ChF 106m were signed. Actual project income

received in 2014 was ChF 77.2m, slightly below the ChF

79.1m received in 2013, while project expenditure was

CHF 83.1m, slightly higher than the CHF 75.1m incurred in

2013. The higher level of expenditure in 2014 compared

to income was funded by income received in prior years.

The overall result for the year was a surplus of ChF 4.4m,

of which ChF 2.7m resulted from the sale of a parcel of

land in Nairobi where IUCN has its regional office for East

and Southern Africa. The land was purchased by a local

conservationist who wishes to keep the land in its current

pristine state.

of the surplus, ChF 0.8m has been transferred to

designated reserves to cover the costs of future events

such as Regional Conservation Forums to take place

in 2015, which will bring together IUCN Members to

discuss the proposed 2017–2020 Programme, and the

World Conservation Congress, which will take place in

2016. The balance has been transferred to unrestricted

reserves. Total reserves increased from ChF 16.9m at the

start of 2014 to CHF 20.3m at the end of 2014. IUCN has

set a target level of reserves of ChF 25m.

IUCN’s main source of funding continues to be official

Development Assistance (oDA) from bilateral and

multilateral agencies, representing 67% of 2014 income.

Income from foundations and institutions represented 8%

and that from corporations, 4%.

IUCN continued to invest in updating its information

systems during 2014. The financial modules of the

Enterprise Resource Management system (ERP) were

rolled out to an additional 20 offices. The ErP is now

operational in 31 offices with the rollout to IUCN’s 10

remaining offices expected to be completed by the end

of 2015.

other key systems developments in 2014 included the

finalisation of a disaster recovery site, the implementation

of a platform to allow Members to pay their dues online

and the development of an e-voting platform.

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Expenditure (in CHF millions)

2014

Regional Programmes

Policy and Programme

Biodiversity Conservation

Nature-based Solutions

Corporate functions

TOTAL

69.4

4.8

12.6

13.5

15.5

115.8

2013

57.5

5.7

12.1

15.9

14.7

105.9

The 2014 financial statements were

audited by the financial services firm

PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was appointed

by the World Conservation Congress in 2012.

The audit report confirms that the financial

statements comply with Swiss law and IUCN’s

own statutes and accounting policies, and that

a suitable internal control framework is in place.

Income (inflation adjusted, CHF millions)

160

140

120

100

1980

1982

1984

1986

1988

1990

1992

1994

1996

1998

2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2014

Report Currency: CHF (‘000)

ASSETS

Current assets

Cash and short-term bank deposits

Financial assets

Membership dues receivable (net)

Staff receivables

Receivables from partner organisations

Advances to implementing partners

other accounts receivable

Donor funds receivable

Subtotal

Framework agreements receivable

Project agreements receivable

Total current assets

Non-current assets

Fixed assets (net)

Intangible assets (net)

Total non-current assets

Total assets

2014

27,823

13,132

2,656

322

514

6,215

2,878

2,678

56,218

10,944

67,162

33,035

2.333

35,368

102,530

2013

46,498

2,318

258

3,333

2,551

1,287

56,322

705

9,745

66,772

34,485

3,009

37,494

104,266

LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES

Current liabilities

Membership dues paid in advance

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

Social charges payable

Project agreements advances

Deferred unrestricted income

Deferred income buildings

New building loan

Miscellaneous current liabilities

hosted organisations advances

Total current liabilities

Provisions

Projects in deficit

Staff leave and repatriation

Staff termination

Total provisions

Non-current liabilities

long-term deferred income

New building loan

Total non-current liabilities

Fund and reserves

IUCN fund

Secretariat contingency fund

Currency translation adjustment

Reserve for statutory meetings

other reserves

Cost centre reserves

renovation fund

Total fund and reserves

Total liabilities and fund balances

1,451

4,982

563

38,577

100

670

106

272

888

47,609

1,250

4,057

411

43,297

989

711

103

253

1,642

52,713

927

1,491

1,838

4,256

897

867

1,852

3,616

20,623

9,704

30,327

21,217

9,809

31,026

8,621

3,049

1,195

946

458

5,301

768

20,338

102,530

6,128

2,618

1,496

499

225

5,272

673

16,911

104,266

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CONSOLIDATED INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

Report Currency: CHF (‘000)

2014

Secretariat

Unrestricted

External operating income

Membership dues

retention of staff income tax

Agreements income

Framework income

other operating income

Total external operating income

Internal allocations

Framework allocated to projects

Cross charges from projects

other internal allocations

Net allocation

Operating expenditure

Personnel costs and consultancies

Travel and communications

50,582

2,959

2,630

5,146

375

1,019

698

63,409

2,957

22,250

15,929

3,135

2,712

2,094

5,155

1,153

52,428

(7,239)

72,832

18,888

5,765

7,858

2,469

6,174

1,851

115,837

(4,282)

46,328

2,217

2,802

4,799

373

769

710

57,998

3,745

(630)

32,404

263

32,037

630

(32,607)

(60)

(32,037)

(203)

203

(640)

27,890

110

27,360

12,147

1,197

222

16,822

3,941

34,329

75,853

1,373

77,226

12,147

1,197

76.075

16,822

5,314

111,555

12,374

1,214

341

16,935

3,519

34,383

Project

Agreements

Total

2013

Secretariat

Project

Unrestricted Agreements

Total

78,793

423

79,216

12,374

1,214

79,133

16,935

3,942

113,599

640

(27,738)

(263)

(27,360)

153

(153)

Vehicles & equipment - costs & maintenance

office and general administrative costs

Publications and printing costs

Workshops and grants to partners

other operating expenditure

Total operating expenditure

Net operating surplus (deficit)

Other income (expenditure)

21,084

13,671

2,823

2,221

1,776

5,050

575

47,200

4,655

67,413

15,888

5,624

7,020

2,149

5,819

1,285

105,197

8,401

Exchange diff. on revaluation of project balances

Net movements in provision and write-offs

Interest income

Financial charges

Capital gains/(losses)

Net gains/(losses) on foreign exchange

705

(791)

111

(313)

(0)

(997)

(1,285)

1,672

2,701

4,373

(188)

1,204

268

1,320

(5,919)

714

(979)

111

(286)

1,204

(729)

(4,247)

2,701

(1,546)

577

(722)

1,003

134

(1,197)

(205)

3,540

(227)

(92)

(362)

121

(528)

4,127

609

(949)

1,003

(362)

(1,076)

(733)

7,668

Total other income (expenditure)

Net surplus (deficit) for the year

before extraordinary item

Gain on sale of land in WASAA

Net surplus (deficit) for the year

(5,919)

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