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IUCN/SSC Cycad Specialist Group

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Cycad News

The CSG finally has a newsletter; the first issue is provided below:

• Cycad Specialist Group News, Issue 1, March 2007.

The following are some recent (and some not-so-recent) cycad-related news items:

• Agenda Forestal Hondureña. 2008. "Teocinte Day" celebration, Gualaco, Honduras. (in English)

• Agenda Forestal Hondureña. 2008. "Dia del Teocinte" feria, Gualaco, Honduras. (in Spanish)

• UK Telegraph. 2008. Ancient cycads under threat from black market. Telegraph.co.uk.

• Independent Online. 2008. Cycad thieves threaten species. IOL.co.za.

• SAPS News. 2008. Police and Primedia proving to be a formidable partnership. SAPS.gov.za. (middle of page)

• SABCnews.com. 2008. Cycads stolen in Limpopo nature reserve. SABCnews.com.

• Cockrell, C. 2007. Tribe of ancients: From prehistoric predators to modern poachers, the UC Botanical Garden's cycad species have seen it all. UC Berkeley News.

• Terry, I. et al. 2007. Odor-mediated push-pull pollination in cycads. Science 318:70.

• Goudarzi, S. 2007. Cycad plants "woo" insects with heat, odor. National Geographic News.

• Cameron, K. 2007. Bar Coding for Botany: A system modeled on commercial bar codes may soon enable anyone to identify any plant from a small fragment of its DNA. Natural History Magazine.

• IUCN. 2006. Announcement of the 16th meeting of the IUCN Plants Committee in Lima, Peru, 3-8 July 2006.

• Donaldson, J. 2006. Letter announcing EN status of Cycas micronesica in 2006 IUCN Red List. IUCN/SSC Cycad Specialist Group, 8 May 2006.

• IUCN. 2006. Announcement of the release of the 2006 IUCN Red List update.

• BGCI. 2006. The IUCN Red List - An urgent call for immediate action. Botanical Gardens Conservation International, 3 May 2006.

• Mauritius Minister of Agro Industry & Fisheries. 2006. Plant Protection Bill of 2006.
  (Includes Aualacaspis yasumatsui on list of quarantine pests: p. 21.)

• Muniappan, R. & C. A. Viraktamath. 2006. The Asian cycad scale Aulacaspis yasumatsui, a threat to native cycads in India. Current Science 91(7):868-870.

• Reed, T. 2006. Insect infestation: Tiny Asian scale bugs, nearly impossible to eradicate, are killing off sago trees. The Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2006. (This Associated Press newspaper article appeared in the Miami Herald and in newspapers around the world.)

• Rogers, G. 2006. Machinery of big business digs deep to help move rare cycads. The Herald, South Africa, 2006.

• Rogers, G. 2006. Cycad smuggler caught with rare E Cape plants fined. The Herald, South Africa, 2006.

• Kessler, L. 2005. The cult of the cycads. New York Times, 28 August 2005.

• News24. 2005. Hot on cycad thieves' heels. News24.com, South Africa, 14 July 2005.

• La Fountaine, E. 2004. The highly coveted cycad. Universitiy of British Columbia Botanical Garden Weblog, 14 November 2004.

• Archibald, S. 2004. Plant 'dinosaurs' dying out in South Africa. Mail & Guardian online, South Africa, 15 September 2004.

• News24. 2004. SA's rare plants disappear. 2004. News24.com, 31 August 2004.

• Davies, R. 2004. Wild cycads 'being plundered to extinction'. Independent Online website, 31 August 2004.

• Davies, R. 2004. Cycad poachers strip South Africa's rare plants. Mail & Guardian online, South Africa, 30 August 2004.

• Henerson, E. 2004. Plants are the new attractions at L.A. Zoo. San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2004.

• China Daily. 2004. Wild flora facing increasing peril. CHINAdaily.com, 23 April 2004.

• Moodie, G. 2004. It's game up for cycad thieves: DNA tests on plants will help foil smugglers. Sunday Times, South Africa, 4 April 2004.

• Kirby, A. 2003. Extinction threat to ancient plant group. BBC News website, 4 July 2003.

• NSW Scientific Committee. 2002. Macrozamia humilis (a perennial cycad) - endangered species listing. New South Wales Scientific Committee, Australia.

• Environmental News Service. 2001. International plant smugglers weeded out. ENS Newswire website, 24 July 2001.

• ABC. 1999. Tas fossil site on heritage list. ABC Online News, Australia, 25 May 1999.

• Environmental News Network. 1999. Weevils help save Jurassic plant in Australia. CNN.com website, 25 May 1999.

• Sullivan, A. 1998. 300-million-year old twosome: the cycad and its pollinator. Newswise website, 1 August 1998.

• Kruger Park Times. n.d. Plundered cycads. Kruger Park Times, South Africa.

• Hermon Slade Foundation. n.d. Systematics and evolution of the genus Cycas.  The Hermon Slade Foundation website, Australia.

• Talk:Wildlife. n.d. Cycads in peril. Talk:Wildlife website.

   

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