IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, has postponed the World Conservation Congress, the world's largest meeting of conservationists. The WCC was scheduled for June; it's now been put off until January 2021. GWS President David Reynolds had planned to represent us at the WCC, and may still do so next January.
http://www.iucncongress2020.org/node/48979
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