Chair's Message
Jon Hutton

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Robin Sharp CB

Sustainable Fisheries and the Ecosystem: A Workshop held at Battleby, Scotland, April 2006
What are the obstacles to more sustainable fisheries? Fishers, representatives of fishermen and scientists, and the European SUSG Fisheries Working Group made their way upstream to Scotland in April to meet and discuss. Eva Valle reports.

Commentary: Back to the barriers? Changing Narratives in Biodiversity Conservation
A comment from Prof. Jeff Sayer arising from the Hutton, Adams, Murombedzi article in Forum for Development Studies No.2-2005

Sustainable Use Indicators: Meeting the CBD Needs. COP 8 Side-Event Report, Curitiba, Brazil
Steve Edwards facilitated, and reports back on, this well attended side event on sustainable use indicators

Sustainable Use and the Official CBD CoP8 Agenda in Curitiba, March 2006
Barney Dickson explains why, apart from the SUSG event on indicators, there was so little discussion of sustainable use at CoP8.

Biotrade at the CBD CoP: Workshop and Roundtable Report
Does 'BioTrade' ( those activities of collection, production, transformation, and commercialisation of goods and services derived from native biodiversity under criteria of environmental, social and economic sustainability) work for biodiversity? Frank Vorhies reports back on an interesting CBD Cop8 workshop.

Towards a Charter on Hunting and Biodiversity – New Bern Convention Initiative
The Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats came into force in 1982. A new initiative of the Convention is a Charter for Hunting and Biodiversity. Robert Kenward joined a large working group in Strasbourg to discuss its implementation.

European Hunting Traditions
What will happen to wildlife conservation, game management and hunting in an enlarged European Union? Dr Yves Lecocq investigates.

Marine Issues at Curitiba - Cop 8 of the CBD
Things were looking decidedly stagnant where marine issues were concerned at the CoP 8 of the CBD - until delegates began discussing deep sea trawling and destructive fishing practices. Despina Symonds reports.

Avian Influenza: some myths and facts
Richard Kock, Co-Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Programme Manager of Deserts and Rangelands Conservation Programmes at the Zoological Society of London gives us a birds eye overview of the H5N1 virus saga.

Bear facts: TRAFFIC report highlights Brown Bear trophy hunting, trade and management
An abridged version of the TRAFFIC press release.