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A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.
In 1991, IUCN (together with UNEP and WWF) published Caring for the Earth, a successor to the World Conservation Strategy. [8] Social aspects of conservation were now integrated in IUCN's work; at the General Assembly in 1994 the IUCN mission was redrafted to its current wording to include the equitable and ecologically use of natural resources.
In 1980, the World Conservation Strategy was developed by the IUCN with help from the UN Environmental Programme, World Wildlife Fund, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, and UNESCO. [68] Its purpose was to promote the conservation of living resources important to humans.
The Game of Conservation. International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1867-3. Heijnsbergen, P. van (1997). International legal protection of wild fauna and flora. Amsterdam; Washington, DC: IOS Press. ISBN 978-9051993134. "Protection of Wild Life in Africa". Nature.
The World Charter for Nature was adopted by United Nations member nation-states on October 28, 1982. It proclaims five "principles of conservation by which all human conduct affecting nature is to be guided and judged." Nature shall be respected and its essential processes shall not be impaired.
The 1980 World Conservation Strategy of the International Union for Conservation of Nature was the first report that included a very brief chapter on a concept called "sustainable development". It focused on global structural changes and was not widely read.
In 1948, the IUCN established a Committee on National Parks. Two decades later the IUCN had been asked by the international community to take responsibility for preparing a world list of national parks in keeping with its role as a network to share the world’s knowledge on nature conservation, and in 1960, the IUCN raised the status of the Committee to that of a permanent Commission, with ...
1980 – Superfund (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act or CERCLA) — Earth First! founded — The Global 2000 Report to the President — International Union for Conservation of Nature publishes its World Conservation Strategy — William R. Catton Jr. publishes Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of ...