Sustainable Use Specialist Group
Sustainable, December 2007
  
Background
What is sustainable use?
IUCN sustainable use policy [fra] [esp] [deu]
The SUSG
Sub Groups
SUSG Chair
SUSG Strategic Focus 2005-08
Resources
Achieving sustainability manual
Addis Ababa Principles & Guidelines
Analytic Framework
CITES
Governance: policy dialogue
The Ecosystem Approach
Indicators
Lessons learned
Literature reviews
SUSG Newsletter
2nd Pan-African Symposium
Policy brochure
Precautionary Principle
Technical series
White Oak
Website links
 


December 2007 newsletter:

Editorial
Robin Sharp CB explains what's in the box

Chair’s message
Jon Hutton reviews recent events of importance for sustainable use

Brainstorming for SUSG at White Oak
Rosie Cooney summarises a forward looking think-session

SUSG’s Global Partnership Project: The Sustainable Use of Species
Rosamunde Almond and Thomasina Oldfield describe the Asia module

Weathering the storm of changing conservation policy: olive ridley egg harvesting in Ostional, Costa Rica
Lisa Campbell describes a long term success for sustainable use

Using wild resources across Europe - values and governance (UNWIRE)
Robert Kenward reports on ESUSG’s Vienna Workshop

CITES COP 2007 – backwards or forwards?
Kai Wollscheid reflects on The Hague meeting

Sustainable hunting workshop
Lee Foote provides a short overview of a follow-up to the London symposium at the SCB meeting in Port Elizabeth

Biodiversity and small businesses: an opportunity to grasp
Zenon Tederko and Zbig Karpowicz point a way forward from Lisbon

Gathering fungi in Europe: impact and participation
Beatrice Senn, European Council for the Conservation of Fungi, gives comfort to mushroom pickers

Sailing towards Barcelona: navigating IUCN’s 4th World Conservation Congress
Robin Sharp CB offers a short guide through the narrows

Sustainable hunting: Austrian principles revamped
Wolfgang Lexer explains the process and the results

Poland to Lomond

Robert Kenward reports on meetings about raptors (for meetings with raptors see ‘The Goshawk’ below)

Green shoots
Alex Hatton describes how hunters are aiding conservation in North Wales

Kangaroos
Rosie Cooney discusses whether use of this abundant species is truly sustainable

Central Asia SUSG expand their GEF project
Tahir Raheed sends news from Balochistan

Book review: Conservation and Sustainable Use
Robin Sharp CB reviews a ground breaking volume

Shorter news items:

SSC Marine Sub-Committee – what is it up to?

Vilm Mark II Poverty & Conservation

2008 International Calendar

Canada, the WTO and European seal products ban

Polar bear die off unlikely

The Goshawk review

All change at ESUSG