WTI founder Menon becomes first Asian to chair key IUCN panel

Vivek Menon, founder of the Wildlife Trust of India, has been elected as the first Asian chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC). This appointment was announced at the IUCN World Congress in Abu Dhabi. Menon aims to bring leadership from the Global South to the SSC, focusing on scaling up recovery for threatened species and leveraging technology and data-driven tools to influence policy. He emphasizes the need for conservation efforts to match the pace of anthropogenic threats to biodiversity.