IUCN: after the red list, the green list

Elephants from Etosha National Park, a protected area in Namibia located in the Kunene region, 400 km north of the capital Windhoek.

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By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

2 min

In less than 50 years, two thirds of wild animals have disappeared and the phenomenon is accelerating!

In question, the razed forests, the filled wetlands, the overexploited oceans and our cities which do not cease to spread out !!! 

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But, how can we stop this vertiginous phenomenon which ultimately threatens our own species?

Because yes, we have to repeat it over and over again: we depend on the living things around us to feed us, treat us, breathe, water us… There is a solution that is growing: increasing the number of protected areas.

Almost all the countries of the world have them, but it is still necessary that the protection is real in the parks and the natural reserves which, in many cases, comes down only to a drawing on a map.

This is precisely the principle of the green list created by the IUCN the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in 2014. A very demanding international label.

Guests:

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, head of the Protected Areas Program at IUCN

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, in charge of the Protected Areas Program at the French Committee of IUCN

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, project manager for the Chouf reserve, in central Lebanon

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, director of Toubkal National Park in Morocco. 

Report from Corcovado Park in Costa Rica.

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