IUCN Red List News
IUCN/SSC and TRAFFIC launch project to review CITES proposals
Gland, Switzerland, 12 May 2004 (IUCN) - This week marks the start of an intensive three months for IUCN's Wildlife Trade Programme and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, as a major project begins to provide technical reviews of proposals to change the listing of plant and animal species on the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) Appendices. …
12 May 2004 | News story
From words to action - Supporting grassroots conservation
Gland, Switzerland, 17 May 2004 (IUCN) - This week, IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC) launches a new action fund that will boost the efforts of its members as they work to save a wide range of plants, animals and their natural habitats across the globe.
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07 May 2004 | News story
No respite for Critically Endangered Saiga Antelope
Gland, Switzerland, 15 April 2004 (IUCN) - Despite the conservation efforts of many people, the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica tatarica) still faces imminent extinction. …
15 Apr 2004 | News story
Protected Area "Gap Analysis" published in Nature
Gland, Switzerland, 8 April 2004 (IUCN) - A paper appearing in the science journal Nature today places one of the major outcomes of the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress into the high profile scientific literature. Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity, widely referred to as the "global gap analysis" involved hundreds of IUCN scientists and is the most comprehensive peer-reviewed analysis of its kind. …
08 Apr 2004 | News story
International partnership launched to promote conservation efforts for threatened marine species
IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland, 29 October 2003. IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC) is joining forces with the Perry Institute for Marine Science to help protect the world's oceans through research, and the development and promotion of conservation efforts for threatened marine species. …
29 Oct 2003 | News story
SSC and the CBD Global Plant Conservation Strategy
Gland, Switzerland, 26.02.02. IUCN-The World Conservation Union. SSC headed IUCN's input to the recent meeting convened by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) which outlined sound technical rationales for specific targets that will be included in the emerging Global Plant Conservation Strategy. …
26 Feb 2002 | News story
SSC expertise called on for strategy to save Europe's plants
Gland, Switzerland (IUCN) 12.07.01. IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC) is playing a key role in developing a strategy to save Europe's diverse but highly threatened plant life. …
12 Jul 2001 | News story
Rediscovery of "extinct" species on Mauritius spurs joint action to secure its future
Gland, Switzerland (IUCN) 21.06.01. The rediscovery of a Mauritian plant last seen in the wild in 1863 has spurred collaborative efforts on the island to help save the species. …
21 Jun 2001 | News story
Species Survival Commission unveils initiatives to boost the fight against species extinctions
Amman, Jordan 11.10.2000 (IUCN). Development of the most current and comprehensive information service about the status of plants and animals worldwide is underway to more effectively combat the escalating global species extinction crisis. …
11 Oct 2000 | News story
