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(e) ensure that all recommendations of Specialist
Groups, and especially those which involve potentially
controversial issues such as setting conservation
priorities, captive propagation, collection of
wild species, re-introductions, eradication of
exotics, and sustainable utilization are adequately
reviewed by appropriate specialists and involved
agencies prior to their presentation to government
and other management agencies for implementation;
(f) place species conservation within the broader context
of habitat management and restoration,
including consideration of underlying social, economic
and political factors that threaten biological
diversity, through close collaboration with other
programmatic elements of IUCN;
(g) cooperate on inter-commissional task forces,
covering such subjects as global climatic change,
education and training, communication and conservation
strategies.
5. Structure and Organization
IUCN's Species Survival Commission harnesses the
skills of a global network of experts committed to the
conservation of plant and animal species. To make
these skills available to the worldwide conservation
movement and to fulfil its mission, the Commission
operates in the following ways:
(a) Network Management
• plans general strategies of approach and organizes
work at local, national and regional levels
with regard to taxa, themes and special disciplines;
• attracts financial and human resources for
information-gathering, analysis, action planning,
communicating, implementing and
evaluating programmes;
• evaluates work process and products, compares
these with other programmes and organizations,
and revises work plans accordingly.
(b) Programme Execution
Internal Process
• gathers information on status of species and
factors affecting likelihood of their survival;
• devises plans for conservation of species and
their habitats by analysis of biological data and
consideration of human factors.
External Product
• communicates conservation strategies, action
plans and policies to the SSC network, to other
components of IUCN and to outside organizations
and agencies;
• initiates actions towards saving, restoring and
wisely managing species and their habitats.
In order to operate most effectively along these lines
during the Triennium 1994-1996, the SSC will be structured
as follows:
(a) Chair and Steering Committee. The Commission
administration will be carried out by the Chair with
a Steering Committee, which will have up to 20
members, providing geographical and interdisciplinary
balance in formulating policy and setting
operational directions.
(b) Roll of Honour. These are people who have made
major contributions to species conservation in
general and to SSC in particular.
(c) Regional Members. SSC regional members will be
appointed, with particular emphasis on incorporating
senior figures in wildlife conservation and
management from both government agencies and
non-governmental organizations. Such members
will, to a large extent, constitute part of the delivery
mechanism for the technical recommendations
arising from the Specialist Groups.
(d) Specialist Groups. SSC will maintain a network of
Specialist Groups, which will include scientists,
conservation professionals and dedicated lay conservationists.
These Groups will be organized to
provide broad coverage of taxonomic groups of
animals and plants, as well as of important interdisciplinary
conservation methodologies.
(e) Cooperating Organizations. Cooperating Organizations
are appointed to SSC for two reasons: first,
as recognition of the logistical and financial assistance
that many organizations provide to the SSC,
in particular to the Specialist Groups; and second,
to form part of the delivery mechanism for conservation
action, which needs to be linked as closely
as possible to the work of the Specialist Groups.
(f) Members Emeritus. Members Emeritus are those
who have served the Commission in the past but
who have stepped down from active day-to-day
service to the Commission.
(g) Regional and National Networking. During the
1994-1996 triennium, the SSC will improve its networking
at national and regional levels, with a
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