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IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges by supporting scientific research; managing field projects all over the world; and bringing governments, NGOs, the UN, international conventions and companies together to develop policy, laws and best practice.
IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and over 13,000 volunteer scientists and experts in some 160 countries. IUCN’s work is supported by over 1,000 professional staff in 60 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. IUCN’s headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, in Switzerland.
The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation was opened in October 2001 with the core support of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment, the regional Government of Junta de Andalucía and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). The Centre’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist Mediterranean societies to conserve and use sustainably the natural resources of the region and work with IUCN members and cooperate with all other agencies that share the objectives of the IUCN.
The Fundación Amigos del Águila Imperial Ibérica, el Lince Ibérico y Espacios Naturales Privados (Foundation of Friends of the Spanish Imperial Eagle, Iberian Lynx and Private Natural Areas) was founded in 2002 from the concern, interest and responsibility of a group of private landowners to conserve these emblematic species and others with which they share habitats. These species found in these properties some of their last refuges in the mid to late twentieth century, and the conservation of these populations allowed the beginnings of their recovery.
Since its creation, the Foundation has actively collaborated with environmental administrations to support the re-introduction of the most endangered species of Mediterranean forests fauna in their former habitats. Since 2013, the Foundation has been a Custody Entity of the territory and as such it defends and actively collaborates in conservation, making it compatible with the traditional uses of the environment and adjusting itself to the most demanding parameters of sustainable development.
The Fundación Amigos del Águila Imperial Ibérica, el Lince Ibérico y Espacios Naturales Privados is a Spanish national entity, registered in the General Registry of Foundations of the Spanish Ministry of the Environment on 15 July 2005 (published in BOE nº 190 res. 13806).
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You can contribute to this conservation initiative to tackle the threats to wildlife caused by high-risk power lines, and contribute to their coexistence, by downloading the mobile application e-faunalert [Android, iOS]. Once your account created, you can start using the app to characterize power poles and to register electrocution or collision incidents.
The e-faunalert app is a joint effort of the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (IUCN-Med) and Fundación Amigos del Águila Imperial Ibérica, el Lince Ibérico y Espacios Naturales Privados and it is funded by Mava Foundation. To learn more about how this project was born, check our timeline below
