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The Foundation for Environmental Conservation: Origins, Objectives, and Needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Nicholas Polunin
Nicholas Polunin
Affiliation:
The Foundation for Environmental Conservation, 7 Chemin Taverney, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Summer 1990 , pp. 175 - 177
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

References

* Now restyled ‘The World Conservation Union’ but retaining the familiar acronym of IUCN.

† Now renamed ‘The World Wide Fund for Nature’ but retaining the familiar acronym of WWF.

* These are the ‘Best Paper’ Prizes which, starting in 1987, have since been awarded annually to the Author or Authors of the best paper or papers published in the preceding year in the Foundation's quarterly Journal Environmental Conservation or other publication. To winners chosen by the Foundation's confidential Awards Committee, up to four such Prizes have been awarded annually.

* These include the International Vernadsky Foundation, established in 1988 and centred on the USSR, of which the President is one of the 10 Founders. It is now absorbed in the Vernadsky International Centre for Biosphere Studies, which has recently been established, inter alia at our urging, in the USSR Academy of Science's Institute of Soil Science and Photosynthesis at Pushchino near Moscow, USSR. They also include the (Indian) National Environmental Conservation Association, of which the President is a life Member and a Member of the Advisory Board, and the collaborating International Society of Naturalists (INSONA), of which the President is an elected Fellow and Patron.