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Also Known As IUCN • World Conservation Union • International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Date October 1948 - present
Areas Of Involvement conservation • environmentalism • endangered species • threatened species
Related People Sir Peter Markham Scott • M.S. Swaminathan

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