The bank has served as a regional source of status information for the World Conservation Monitoring Centre and has hosted numerous international meetings of the IUCN Specialist Groups dealing with reptiles.
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Vietnam has some 1, 534 known species of fauna and 10, 500 species of vascular plants, according to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre . 3.4 % of Vietnam is protected under IUCN categories I-V.
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Indicators adopted by United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) to measure natural biodiversity use the term in a slightly more specific way.
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The data bank, which went live in 1999, is a community project of the European Environment Agency ( EEA ) of the Council of Europe and the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre ( UNEP-WCMC ).
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As a result, Hutton joined UNEP as Director of its World Conservation Monitoring Centre ( UNEP-WCMC ) which in recent years has achieved significant acclaim for the authoritative nature and impact of its work on biodiversity analysis and assessment.
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Major species assessors include BirdLife International, the Institute of Zoology ( the research division of the Zoological Society of London ), the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and many Specialist Groups within the IUCN Species Survival Commission ( SSC ).
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In 1998, " Rhododendron album " was deemed vulnerable by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, meaning that it faces a high risk of extinction in the mid-term future unless proper conservation methods are employed ( Whitten et al . 1996 ).
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The European Environment Agency ( EAP ) lists the Wadden Sea National Park, however, in " Category V, Protected Landscape ", which corresponds to a conservation area ( statement by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre ( UNEP-WCMC ) in Cambridge dated 23 October 2008.
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This definition is recognised by the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre ( UNEP-WCMC ) and is elaborated on in the UNEP-WCMC " ICCA Registry Handbook " as a type of Protected Area ( including Marine Protected Areas ) in which native peoples initiate the creation and / or are owners and managers.
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MSW3 lists the two forms as full species However, this approach is not taken by the United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre nor by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ), both of which list " L . cyclotis " as a synonym ( not even a subspecies ) of " L . africana ".
