The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 11: July 1998
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New publication: IUCN Guidelines for Re-introductions
These Guidelines were prepared by the Species Survival Commission/
IUCN Re-introduction Specialist Group (RSG) and officially approved
by the 41st Meeting of IUCN Council in May 1995.
The re-introduction guidelines are written to encompass the full
range of plant and animal taxa, and are therefore general. They will
be regularly revised, and are also intended to act as a launching pad
for the development of taxa and species-specific guidelines, to be
developed in handbook form in the future. Meanwhile, IUCN would
like to receive criticisms, both positive and negative, arising from the
application of these guidelines in designing and implementing re-introduction
projects. These will enable future updates to be made
and specific guidelines to be developed.
Copies of the booklets have been published in Arabic/English,
Chinese/English, French/English, Russian/English, Spanish/English and
English only. They are available from the IUCN Publication Services
Unit, 219c Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, United Kingdom.
Fax. + 44 1223 277175. Prices are $7.50 or £5 for the bi-lingual
versions and $6 or £4 for the English-only version. SSC and IUCN
members are entitled to a one-third discount.
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