UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
| Name: | World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
| Abbreviation: | UNEP-WCMC |
| URL to homepage: | http://www.unep-wcmc.org/ |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
Mandate
- The WCMC provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
- WCMC provides both public domain information and specially-commissioned products for governmental and corporate users by focusing on information that is relevant to policy development and planning for conservation. Its aim is to have biodiversity information more widely used in decision-making, and to help conserve biological resources for future generations.
Relevance to forests by key words
Certification, forest restoration, non-timber forest products, forest mapping, biodiversity mapping, conservation