1973 iucn yearbook

Yellowstone - Grand Teton, in 1972, in cooperation with the
US National Park Service and other agencies. Among their
many important results, these conferences also produced considerable
development in the growth of marine parks on a worldwide
basis. Another result of quite a different sort was a Centennial
publication entitled, World National Parks - Progress and
Opportunities, compiled by Jean-Paul Harroy with contributions
by leading authorities.
Certainly a major step was the establishment of the Union's
Commission on Ecology in 1954, and its subsequent development,
notably under the able Chairmanship of the late Edward
H. Graham, who was greatly assisted by the Union's Vice-
President, Frank Fraser Darling. With the help of Sir Hugh
Elliott, the Commission on Ecology played a leading role in
organizing the scientific Technical Meetings at the IUCN General
Assemblies. Two of its Chairmen were the former IUCN President,
François Bourliere, and the present President of the Union,
Donald J. Kuenen. It also concerned itself with the problems of
wetlands through the MAR Conference organized by Luc Hoffmann,
and the later development of the Convention on Wetlands
of International Importance at Ramsar, Iran, in 1971.
Over a period of many years, the Union's Commission on
Legislation (now a committee of the Commission on Environmental
Policy, Law and Administration) collected constitutional
documentation, game and wildlife laws, and conservation and
environmental legislation and this material was organized at
Bonn under the leadership of the then Commission Chairman,
Wolfgang E. Burhenne and his lawyer wife, Françoise. These
years of ground work materially aided achievement of the recent
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora which was drawn up at the Washington
Conference in February-March 1973. The unit also played a
leading role in preparing for the revision of the African Convention
on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,
signed at Algiers in 1969.
Education has been a significant field of Union activity and in
recent years its strong programme, in large measure, was the
result of efforts by Jan Cerovsky, Executive Officer of the Commission
on Education until the end of 1972. Many meetings have
been held in Eastern and Western Europe, and in addition, there
have been workshops at Morges and at General Assemblies, and
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