Transcript Species - PGR Forum

World Conservation Congress
World Commission on Protected Areas
1300 members
Commission on Education & Communication
600 members
Commission on Environmental Economics
& Social Policy
350 members
Species Survival Commission
7000 members
Commission on Ecosystem Management
300 members
Commission on Environmental Law
550 members
More than 120
Specialist Groups
and Task Forces
Species Programme
IUCN/SSC VISION
A world that values and conserves present
levels of biodiversity
SSC GOAL
The extinction crisis and massive loss of
biodiversity are universally adopted as a
shared responsibility resulting in action to
reduce this loss of diversity within species,
between species and of ecosystems
IUCN Species Survival Commission
SSC ACTIVITIES
• Monitor and evaluate the status of species
• Identify threats
• Prioritise actions to reverse threats
• Produce Action Plans
• Contribute to global conservation
policies, for example - invasive species
• Provide advice to IUCN members,
governments, NGOs
SHARING SSC INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, AND TOOLS
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Websites
Red List of Threatened Species
Species – the SSC journal
64 Action Plans
50+ Specialist Group newsletters
Listservs
Policy guidelines
E-Bulletin
SUPPORT TO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
• Convention on the International
Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Flora and Fauna
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Convention on Migratory Species
• Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
RED LIST PROGRAMME
• 33,798 species listed
• 12.5% of the World’s flora
• Quantifiable criteria
• Red List Criteria review
• Regional / National Guidelines
• www.redlist.org
Taxonomic Specialist Groups
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Bryophyte
• Bulb
Cactus and Succulent • Carnivorous Plant
Conifer
• Cycad
Fungi
• Legume
Lichen
• Orchid
Palm
• Pteridophyte
• Temperate
• Medicinal Plant
Broadleaved Tree
Geographic Specialist Groups
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Arabian Plant
Australasian Plant
China Plant
Eastern Africa Plant
European Plant
Galapagos Plant
Indian Ocean Island
Plant
Indian Subcontinent
Plant
Japanese Plant
• Korean Plant
• Macaronesian Island Plant
• Madagascar Plant
• Mediterranean Island Plant
• North American Plant
• Philippine Plant
• South Atlantic Island Plant
• Southern African Plant
• Temperate South American
Plant
How can conservation information on Crop
Wild Relatives be brought into the network?