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Abstract

Status of international wildlife organizations in the world were investigated according to their activities whether they partially or entirely and directly or indirectly study wildlife animals. In this survey, the organizations were categorized in 15 groups, as association, centre, commission, convention, council, foundation, fund, institute, leage, organization, programme, service, society, trust and union. In total, 36 organizations were identified which 10 of them were from governmental organizations, while rest of them recorded as non-governmental organizations. History of foundation were varied between 10 to 100 years and parties number were recorded from 19 to 157 countries. The mission of these organizations categorized on the basis of 1- wildlife (17 org.) 2- habitat (6 org.) 3- information (5 org.) 4- society affairs (11 org.). Islamic republic of Iran is participatory in 8 governmental organizations and 4 non- governmental organizations (12 organizations).

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