Gland, Switzerland
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Gland is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The city also is home to the headquarters of the IUCN and WWF, and hosts the Secretariat of the Convention on Wetl
Gland municipal administration building
Gland and Lake Geneva
Gland train station
Villa la Rajada
The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Founded in 1948, IUCN has beco
Gland, Switzerland
…halfway between the cities of Geneva and Lausanne, many international companies and organizations have offices in Gland, among others Sun Microsystems, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), the Ramsar Convention and World Wide Fund for Nature. The online brokerage and bank, Swissquote, has…
Julian Huxley, the first Director General of UNESCO, took the initiative to set up IUCN.
Africa was the first regional focus of IUCN conservation action.
Soviet stamp commemorating the 1978 IUCN General Assembly in Ashgabat
Jean-Paul Harroy