Chair
Brian Child
child.briangmail.com

Geographical coverage
Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Membership and discipline coverage
Membership is approximately 75, representing the following disciplines: biology, social sciences, forestry, fishery, wildlife biology, and economy.

Topical coverage
Through its membership, to facilitate the research, communication, and promotion of land and resource use that is sustainable, through:

• Identifying and documenting relevant ongoing projects and research.
• Identifying and documenting areas in which new research is needed.
• Acting as a catalyst for debate and action on sustainable use issues.
• Supporting initiatives both within and external to the group aimed at developing and testing a unifying theory on sustainable use.
• Identifying centres or institutions that are already acting or could act as repositories of information to members of the group.
• Establishing a regional sustainable use communications network and the mechanisms required to disseminate information.
• Assisting legislators and policy makers in the development of legislation and policy consistent with the principles expressed in this document.