Species News
News Index
In addition to regular web-stories and press releases, SSC publishes news in the form of a monthly e-bulletin and Species, its bi-annual publication. Most news releases are in html, but some are PDF files. You may need to download the free Acrobat Reader to view them.
SSC Specialist Group provides first online database on all 11,000 ant species
Gland, Switzerland, 08.03.02. IUCN-The World Conservation Union. Ants are one of the most ecologically important groups of animals, and are also considered one of the worst invasive species. They can turn more soil than earthworms, are the main herbivores in tropical South America, and make up to one third of the animal biomass in a rainforest. Yet social insects (ants, bees, wasps, and termites), are not included in mainstream conservation efforts and most of the information that could be used to conserve or manage them is not catalogued or easily available. …
08 Mar 2002 | News - News story
Launch of the Global Mammal Assessment and Partnership
Gland, Switzerland, 07.03.02. IUCN-The World Conservation Union. In an effort to develop new ideas on biodiversity assessment, using mammals as a test case, the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) has joined forces with several other conservation organisations to form a Global Mammal Assessment and Partnership. …
07 Mar 2002 | News - 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 - News story
The humphead wrasse - A conservation challenge taken up by SSC Specialist Group
By Yvonne Sadovy, Chair, Grouper & Wrasse Specialist Group, An extract from Species - the SSC newsletter, issue 36 …
17 Feb 2002 | News - News story
Launch of the first Dugong Status Report and Action Plan
Cartagena, Colombia 13.02.02. IUCN's Director General, Achim Steiner, and Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a joint publication, Dugong: Status Report and Action Plans for Countries and Territories, during the seventh special session of UNEP's Governing Council in Columbia yesterday. …
13 Feb 2002 | News - News story
SSC Specialist Group celebrates success of the First International Tapir Symposium
Gland, Switzerland (20.12.01) IUCN-The World Conservation Union. Global efforts towards tapir conservation have received great impetus thanks to the success of the First International Tapir Symposium that took place in Costa Rica recently. …
20 Dec 2001 | News - News story
Recovery of the Kunene rhinos - Knights of the Namibian desert
Gland, Switzerland (01.11.01) IUCN-The World Conservation Union. An IUCN Species Survival Commission member is central to the remarkable recovery of some of the most unusual members of the rhino world - the desert-dwelling black rhino of Namibia. …
01 Nov 2001 | News - News story
IUCN/SSC Specialist Group involved in plan to rescue wild alligators in China
Gland, Switzerland (26.09.01) IUCN-The World Conservation Union. Significant steps towards the conservation of the last "wild dragons" in China have been made thanks to the hard work of IUCN's Crocodile Specialist Group members and Chinese and international experts. …
26 Sep 2001 | News - News story
Worldwide efforts to save bats boosted by launch of IUCN Action Plan at international conference
Gland, Switzerland (06.08.01) IUCN-The World Conservation Union. The launch of a new IUCN bat Action Plan at an international conference in Malaysia has served as a rallying cry to conservationists worldwide to step up efforts to halt the alarming declines in bat populations. …
06 Aug 2001 | News - News story
IUCN leads international cooperation to combat the growing "bushmeat" problem
Gland, Switzerland (IUCN) 27.07.01. IUCN is taking the lead on international cooperation to combat the unsustainable use of wild meat that is having a devastating effect on wildlife populations and threatening food security for many local communities. …
27 Jul 2001 | News - News story
