The French Committee for IUCN was established in 1992 as an association of law 1901 (OJ of 2 June 1993). Its articles are available at following link . Its head office at the Museum of Man, 17 Place du Trocadero, 75016 Paris, and his team in Paris is housed in the Museum of Man, thanks to an agreement signed with the National Museum of Natural History , founding member of the IUCN at international level in 1948 and founding member of the french Committee for IUCN in 1992.

The French Committee of IUCN is an association approved under the protection of the environment. The decree published in the Official Journal is available here . The French Committee for IUCN is an association authorized to be designated to take part in the debate on the environment taking place in the framework of national consultative bodies. The decree published in the Official Journal is available here . It thus serves on several national bodies such as the National Biodiversity Committee, the Board of the forest and wood and the National Council of the sea and coastlines.