The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, second edition
Guidelines for Reintroductions and Other Conservation Translocations, June 2013
Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional Levels Version 3.0 2003.
Guidelines on The Conservation of Medicinal Plants 1993.
Guidelines for the Placement of Confiscated Animals approved by the 51st Meeting of the IUCN Council, February 2000.
Guidelines for the Prevention of Biodiversity Loss Caused by Alien Invasive Species, approved by the 51st Meeting of the IUCN Council, February 2000
IUCN SSC Guiding Principles on Trophy Hunting as a Tool for Creating Conservation Incentives. IUCN Ver. 1.0 (9 August 2012). IUCN SSC. IUCN, Gland.
Additional translations produced with support of CIC – International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation. Chinese, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
Strategic Planning for Species Conservation: A Handbook, The Species Conservation Planning Task Force, Species Survival Commission, IUCN (Version 1.0) and Overview 2008.
IUCN Technical Guidelines on the Management of Ex Situ Populations for Conservation, approved at the 14th Meeting of the Programme Committee of Council, Gland Switzerland, 10 December 2002.
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IUCN Policy Statement on Research Involving Species at Risk Of Extinction, approved by the 27th Meeting of the IUCN Council, Gland Switzerland,14 June 1989.






