Determining the most pressing issues in nature conservation.
At the IUCN World Conservation Congress the Union’s 1,400 Member organisations democratically determine the most pressing issues in nature conservation and agree actions to address them. But very few of the motions proposed for Congress in September 2021 meaningfully consider the connections between biodiversity conservation and gender equality. Unless the conservation community redoubles its efforts to tackle gender inequality, conservation will be less effective, risk entrenching gender inequities, and alienate allies in other sectors; write Helen Anthem (Fauna and Flora International, an IUCN Member organisation) and David Johnson (Margaret Pyke Trust, an IUCN Member organisation).
In 2020, four members of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) Specialist Group on Gender undertook an an