World Conservation Strategy:
Living Resource Conservation for Sustainable Development

IUCN, UNEP and WWF (1980): World Conservation Strategy: Living Resource Conservation for Sustainable Development. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland.

The World Conservation Strategy (WCS) was commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) which together with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) provided the financial support for its preparation and contributed to the evolution of its basic themes and structure. This document presents the aim of the WCS. It explains the contribution of living resource conservation to human survival and to sustainable development, identifies the priority conservation issues and the main requirements for dealing with them and proposes ways for effectively achieving the Strategy’s aim.