Meeting our Common Challenge
Building our Common Future

IWMC-WORLD CONSERVATION TRUST is a global coalition of individuals, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and government entities committed to conserving the world's resources through the principle of sustainable use.

IWMC-WORLD CONSERVATION TRUST believes sustainable use is the most dynamic and effective incentive for encouraging humans to conserve the world's resources, preserve its diverse cultures, and promote international cooperation among people and nations.

IWMC-WORLD CONSERVATION TRUST'S goals include:

1) Promoting dynamic, scientifically based management, with all of its various tenets, as a tool to achieve effective wildlife conservation.

2) Strengthening international cooperation and understanding between governments, resource users, international management organizations, and conservation groups.

3) Developing communication systems to effectively inform media and the public about resource conservation and the most effective means to achieve conservation objectives, including the sustainable use of terrestrial and marine resources.

4) Supporting resource management programmes in developing countries by providing them with the mechanisms needed to create economic incentives required to achieve conservation objectives.

5) Strengthening the historic and inseparable ties between mankind and other living creatures while encouraging consideration of human factors when creating long-term solutions to conservation challenges.

6) Encouraging economic interests in developed nations to support the conservation programmes of developing nations.

7) Urging international decision-making bodies such as the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to use rationality, as opposed to emotion, as the basis for wildlife and marine species conservation. �