The following Specialist Groups and Task Forces have been established by IUCN WCPA. Each Specialist Group and Task Force has an approved Terms of Reference for its activities. The overall Terms of Reference for Specialist Group and Task Force Leaders can be downloaded here: TORs for SG and TF Leaders
The template for preparing TORs for approval by the WCPA EXCO can be downloaded here: Template for TORs for Specialist Groups and Task Forces
- Climate Change
- Connectivity Conservation
- Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas
- Freshwater
- Geoheritage and Caves and Karst Protected Areas
- Governance of Protected and Conserved Areas
- Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas
- High Seas
- Health and Well-being
- Management Effectiveness
- Mountains
- Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECM)
- Protected Area Finance
- Privately Protected Areas and Nature Stewardship
- Temperate Grasslands
- Tourism and Protected Areas
- Transboundary Conservation
- Urban Conservation Strategies
- Wilderness
TASK FORCES
- Beyond the Aichi Targets
- Biodiversity and Protected Areas (jointly with SSC)
- COVID-19 and Protected Areas
- Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas
- Marine Mammal Protected Areas (jointly with SSC)
- Nature For All (jointly with CEC)
