World Commission on Protected Areas1300 members

Commission on Education & Communication

600 members

Commission on Environmental Economics & Social Policy350 members Commission on Ecosystem Management

300 members

Species Survival Commission 7000 members Commission on Environmental Law

550 members

More than 120 Specialist Groups and Task Forces

Species Programme

World Conservation Congress

A world that values and conserves present levels of biodiversity

IUCN/SSC VISION

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

SSC GOAL

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

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SSHARING HARING SSCSSC IINFORMATION, NFORMATION, KKNOWLEDGENOWLEDGE, , AANDND TTOOLSOOLS

• Websites• Red List of Threatened Species• Species – the SSC journal• 64 Action Plans • 50+ Specialist Group newsletters• Listservs• Policy guidelines• E-Bulletin

SSUPPORTUPPORT TTOO IINTERNATIONALNTERNATIONAL CCONVENTIONSONVENTIONS

• 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

RRED ED LLIST IST PPROGRAMMEROGRAMME

• 33,798 species listed

• 12.5% of the World’s flora

• Quantifiable criteria

• Red List Criteria review

• Regional / National Guidelines

• www.redlist.org

• Bryophyte• Cactus and Succulent• Conifer• Fungi • Lichen• Palm

• Medicinal Plant

Taxonomic Specialist Groups

• Bulb• Carnivorous Plant• Cycad • Legume• Orchid• Pteridophyte• Temperate Broadleaved Tree

• Arabian Plant • Australasian Plant • China Plant • Eastern Africa Plant • European Plant • Galapagos Plant • Indian Ocean Island

Plant • Indian Subcontinent

Plant • Japanese Plant

Geographic Specialist Groups

• 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

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