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 In
March 2003 Dr. Jon Hutton was appointed Chair of the
IUCN Sustainable Use Specialist Group. Jon Hutton is
widely recognized as an authority on, and enthusiastic
participant in, many aspects of international wildlife
conservation policy, including CITES and wildlife trade,
protected area management, community-based conservation
and the sustainable use of natural resources. He has
made a conspicuous and internationally recognized contribution
to crocodile conservation (in which he remains a specialist)
as well as to conservation practice in Africa and our
understanding of contemporary conservation issues in
general.
As Chair of the IUCN Sustainable Use Specialist Group,
Jon Hutton has several responsibilities and duties,
including establishing and maintaining an effective
membership, ensuring that goals and objectives are established
on a triennial/quadrennial basis and that annual work
plans are formulated, and ensuring that a process is
in place to secure adequate funding for fulfillment
of the SUSG objectives. He is particularly keen to restructure
and refocus the Group and is currently engaged in a
series of discussions with the regional Chairs. A priority
activity was to provide regional perspectives and recommendations
to the CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) workshop
in Ethiopia in May 2003 that synthesized outputs of
the three CBD regional workshops on sustainable use
of biological diversity held in 2001 and 2002 respectively.
Jon Hutton is currently Director of UNEP-WCMC. From 1998 until 2005 he was head of Fauna
& Flora International's Africa Programme and Director
of ResourceAfrica.
During his career, Jon Hutton has published over 50
scientific and technical papers, including work on sustainable
use, land use and planning, institutional issues, and
crocodile ranching. He currently resides in Cambridge,
UK.
In each SUSG newsletter, Jon writes a personal message to the membership:
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