The Commission will continue to promote adequate legal measures for conservation of Man's environment and for this purpose will :

In general-Continue to inform on specific questions with regard to existing legislation in the field of environmental conservation as well as to advise on proposed conservation legislative and statutory measures, or propose such measures itself, through appropriate IUCN channels.

In particular in the near future-Promote better protection of species and especially will enquire further into the necessity of having an international agreement on marine turtles, in cooperation with the SSC;

Promote adequate legal control of the illegal traffic in wildlife, and for this purpose will finalize the work undertaken with regard to the IUCN convention on the Import, Export and Transit of Certain Species of Animals and Plants; Promote the protection of valuable ecosystems and to this end will study the possibility of using elsewhere the "easement" contracts used in the USA and will offer its collaboration to scientific bodies concerned with the conservation of the arctic and inhabited islands;

Study US Legislation at the Federal level on environment and possibly at the State level with the help of a US lawyer working in the office in Bonn and initiate a similar undertaking for Latin America;

Peruse the East European Legislation with the help of a Czech lawyer who has agreed to come to Bonn for three months;

Complete a pilot computer project by processing 6,000 legal acts and estab lishing for the purpose a relevant thesaurus.

To these ends-The Commission will continue to collect legislative and statutory measures pertaining to the environment on a world wide scale and will widen the working basis, at present strictly limited to legislative and statutory material, in order to cover as far as possible case decisions and authors' comments.

In order to carry out this program the Commission considers that the permanent office, presently staffed by one French-speaking qualified lawyer, will have to be enlarged to include one English-speaking lawyer as well, together with a full-time secretary and a part-time documentation officer, plus adequate equipment. This does not include staff required to carry out the computer program, for which extra funds will be made available.

To strengthen the work of the Union, consideration is being given to enlarging this Commission to include environmental policy as well as the original responsibilities for legislation and administration.

3.4.5. International Commission on National Parks

(1) Maintain and if possible intensify by reinforcing the staff at the headquarters in Brussels the routine work of the Commission: supporting action for endangered National Parks, stimulating the establishment of new National Parks, answering to information requests, seeking of funds for specific programmes, etc. (2) Make a systematical use, in order to stimulate the establishment of new parks of the status improvement of existing reserves, of the French and English versions of the "U.N. List of National Parks and Equivalent Reserves".

(3) Obtain that ECOSOC votes a resolution recognizing this List as a formal U.N. document which will considerably increase its value as a means of persuasion and will definitively enhance the selection standards that ICNP has been trying to obtain recognition for during the five past years.

(4) Improve, with the help of a biologist now attached to the Commission Headquarters in Brussels, the collecting on punched cards of any data concerning reserves considered for inscription on the U.N. List, parks and reserves deserving to be added to it and sanctuaries which are being created or whose present statute is being reinforced.

(5) With IBP/CT, prepare a new edition of the List, especially by completing ecological descriptions, or by putting the data on punched cards.

(6) Systematically enlarge the bibliographical documentation of ICNP Headquarters in Brussels.

(7) Initiate also with the help of the above mentioned biologist, the publication of a periodical bulletin providing topical information on national parks and equivalent reserves. This bulletin should, if possible, be circulated to all National Parks Directors of all countries, especially to those of the protected areas named on the U.N. List.

(8) Keep an up-to-date list of experts which would be sent on survey, management or advisory missions, in which the authorities wish to improve their National Parks and Equivalent Reserves System.

(9) Finally, if the offer made to the U.S. National Parks Service is accepted, an important activity of ICNP between 1970 and 1972 should concern the international aspects of the preparation of the Second World Conference on National Parks which will be held in connection with the Centennial Anniversary of Yellowstone National Park.

3.4.6. Survival Service Commission

(1) To continue to service existing Red Data Book volumes on Mammalia, Aves and Pisces. To publish new volumes on Amphibia and Reptilia, Mollusca, Angiospermae and Gymnospermae. To initiate the preparation of volumes on Insecta. Pteridophyta and Bryophyta.

(2) To promote closer liaison between the SSC and the Union's Ecology and International National Parks Commissions, and other international organisations such as FAO and IBP (CT), with a view to stimulating more effective management of the world's ecosystems and thereby reducing the recruitment of taxa to the Red Data Book.

(3) To promote awareness of threatened species problems among Governments of countries in which these species occur, and among biological science departments of the world's universities. To encourage greater national responsibility on the part of the Governments and greater interest on the part of the universities for effective management and study, respectively, of Red Data Book species, particularly those which have received little or no attention.

(4) To continue to concentrate the SSC's effort on those species whose effective conservation demands international cooperation, such as the marine species of mammals and reptiles, and very rare species that occur in a number of different countries, such as the Sumatran rhinoceros.

(5) To continue to promote the conservation of rare species through the cooperation and activities of zoological and botanical gardens, and the regulation of capture and acquisition of threatened forms, for which the SSC has already assumed considerable responsibility.

(6) To be ready to act in emergency situations that threaten the continued existence of any animal or plant species.

3.5 Project groups

IUCN is initiating a Project Group structure in which groups are formed to handle a particular conservation problem. Membership includes representatives from the concerned Commissions, co-operating agencies, and the World Wildlife Fund. These groups will function only long enough to deal with their specific problems. In general, these projects will be supported from outside funding sources, with Secretariat personnel and services assigned by the SecretaryGeneral when appropriate.

Two examples can be cited within the framework of the Survival Service Commission. Plans are being made to form a Kouprey Project Group. It would be desirable to have the group jointly sponsored by FAO and UNESCO, with Cambodian, French and U.S. scientists participating in efforts to try and save this unique gene bank from extinction. A second example relates to the extensive work in the Udjung Kulon Nature Reserve of Indonesia, the habitat of the gravely endangered Javan rhinoceros. This has been a co-operation venture with the World Wildlife Fund, the Fauna Preservation Society, the Basle University Patronage Committee, and the National Biological Institute at Bogor in Indonesia, supporting research on the ecology of that rhinoceros and working towards its conservation.

3.6. Scientific and Technical Advice to World Wildlife Fund

IUCN is the acknowledged scientific and technical agency for the World Wildlife Fund, and an important aspect of the Union's work has been the screening and evaluating proposals submitted to the Fund for financial support. This work will be continued, and in addition the Union will undertake to originate project proposals of high urgency and importance for the consideration of WWF, as well as provide data as a scientific basis for WWF campaigns.

4. PROPOSED STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION

The Organization of IUCN is determined by Statutes and By-laws. The original version of the Statutes, voted at Fontainebleau, 5 October 1948, was revised at the Sixth and Seventh General Assemblies in 1958 and 1960, and further amend

ments were adopted by the Tenth General Assembly in 1969. The existing Statutes are in many ways broad and flexible, and the necessary changes in structure and organization can be made within them. Responsibilities and relationships are being strengthened, and lines of decision making clarified.

To co-ordinate the work outlined, IUCN proposes to reorganize its Secretariat structure. It will establish new posts of Director-General (the post of DirectorGeneral will be occupied by the Secretary-General), Deputy Director-General, Senior Staff Ecologist, and Associate Staff Scientist. The Secretariat will also be strengthened by the addition of further members of the full-time professional staff to cope with the work of specific Commissions. The envisaged new structure will probably be along the lines charted in Appendix A.

Priorities for action by IUCN will be established in accordance with the following procedures:

(a) Proposals will be first received or initiated by the Secretariat;

(b) Where appropriate proposals may be referred to the Chairmen of the relevant Commissions or selected specialists;

(c) The Secretary-General/Director-General will prepare a program in suggested order of priority for consideration by the Executive Board.

5. BUDGET

In the years 1963-1965, IUCN's income and expenditure averaged Sw. Fr. 399,000; the corresponding figure for 1966-1968 was Sw. Fr. 867,000. The proposals for 1970-1972 average Sw. Fr. 2,150,000. It is confidently expected that the proposed programme is sufficiently practical and indeed essential to world conservation to attract the necessary funds. No funds from any source will be accepted by the IUCN if their acceptance involves control of IUCN policies, objectives or personnel.

IUCN stands ready to assist the United Nations or its member countries in any way in which it can.

IUCN-FOUNDED FONTAINBLEU 1948-OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS FOLLOWING NEW DELHI GENERAL ASSEMBLY, DECEMBER 1, 1969

President: Mr. Harold J. Coolidge (U.S.A.).

Vice Presidents: Dr. F. Fraser Darling (U.K.); Shri Zàfar Futehally (India); Prof. Ian McT. Cowan (Canada); Dr. Chr. Jouanin (France); and Prof. Dr. M. F. Mörzer Bruyns (Netherlands).

Chairmen of Commissions: Survival Service, Mr. P. M. Scott (U.K.); Education, Dr. L. K. Shaposhnikov (U.S.S.R.); Ecology, Dr. J. B. Cragg (Canada); National Parks, Prof. J.-P. Harroy (Belgium); Legislation, Mr. W Burhenne (Germany); and Landscape Planning, Mr. R. J. Benthem (Netherlands). Secretary-General: Mr. E. J. H. Berwick (U.K.), until March 30, 1970; Dr. Gerardo Budowski (Venezuela), April 1, 1970 to September 1972.

Executive Board: Mr. B. N. Bogdanov (U.S.S.R.), 1966–1972; Dr. Robert Carrick (Australia), 1966-1972; Ing. Agr. I. N. Costantino (Argentina), 19661972; Prof. Ian McT. Cowan (Canada), 1969-1975; Mr. B. Dioum (Senegal), 1970-1976; Dr. W. A. L. Fuller (Canada), 1964-1970; Shri Z. Futehally (India), 1967-1973; Prof. U. Hafsten (Norway), 1970–1976; Dr. Chr. Jouanin (France), 1970-1976; Prof. Dr. V. A. Kovda (U.S.S.R.), 1967-1973; Prof. H. E. Luther (Finland), 1964-1970; Prof. R. Matthey (Switzerland), 1969-1975.

Doc. Dr. A. Medwecka-Kornas (Poland), 1967-1973; Prof. Th. Monod (France), 1964-1970; Prof. Dr. M. F. Mörzer Bruyins (Netherlands), 1969-1975; Dr. P. N. Neto (Brazil), 1970–1976; Dr. M. E. D. Poor (U.K.), 1969–1975; Dr. L. M. Talbot (U.S.A.), 1969-1975; Mr. R. E. Train (U.S.A.), 1966-1972; Dr. J. A. Valverde Gomez (Spain), 1970–1976; and Dr. D. P. S. Wasawo (Kenya), 1964-1970. . . . Mr. BRADEMAS. My last question might be because of your experience in the international field to ask what countries you think Mr. Meeds and I ought to go visit to see what they are doing in the field of environmental education from which we in this country might learn.

Miss HENDERSON. I would certainly think in England. Of course, you could understand them so well, but they have not only some innovations in general, but they have also developed an extensive series of nature and trails and outdoor centers. They have developed programs in the new towns where the children record changes in the natural surroundings as the town grows.

The nature conservancy there, I think could give you a number of leads onto this very quickly. I think some of the Scandinavian countries, Holland, and Czechoslovakia have some interesting programs. East Europeans have a lot of cooperation with youth groups—an important facet of this problem-Japan has interesting teacher training

centers.

Mr. BRADEMAS. Dr. Stahr of the Audubon Society, yesterday urged us to amend this bill for authorization for the establishment of nature centers. Do you have any comment on that suggestion?

Miss HENDERSON. I think that is one thing. I am in favor of anything like that. But I would like to see some city centers, too. In the environment field they would be very useful; they could be like the neighborhood museums with a more environmental focus.

Mr. BRADEMAS. Your testimony has been most helpful to me. Thank

you.

Mr. Meeds?

Mr. MEEDS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I would like to ask the same question that Mr. Brademas asked about the Conservation Foundation, Miss Henderson. You are the education specialist for that group?

Miss HENDERSON. Yes.

Mr. MEEDS. Who are some of the members of that group?