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Bengal Tiger, Black-bellied Tree Pangolin, Kanthan Cave Trapdoor Spider, Roatán Spiny-tailed Iguana, Bornean Orangutan, Giant Barb (a species of freshwater fish), Bleeding Toad, Giant Guitarfish, Chapa (a species of land snail), Turtleheaded Sea Snake, Lo’ulu (a species of palm), Banana Bat, Saltmarsh Harvest Mouse, Mangrove Finch, Plated Leaf Chameleon, African Penguin, Giant River Prawn, and Hazel Dormouse. Rachel Roberts in the SSC Chair’s Office continues to lead this project and she would hugely welcome nominations for species to be profiled in the future. 4. Securing additional funding to support the activities and staff of the SSC Chair’s Office With the start of the new IUCN quadrennium, it has been necessary to renegotiate the funding agreements for the SSC Chair’s Office. The following institutions have made funding commitments for the four years up until 2016 (with a few having increased their funding support): Al Ain Zoo; Bristol Zoo; Chester Zoo; Environment Agency Abu Dhabi; European Association of Zoos and Aquaria; MAVA Foundation; UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre; Wildlife Conservation Society; World Association of Zoos and Aquariums; and Zoological Society of London. Simon thanks Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, Frédéric Launay, Lynda Mansson, Paule Gros, Ghanim Al Hajeri, Mark Craig, Ralph Armond, David Field, Jonathan Baillie, John Robinson, Gerald Dick, Jon Hutton, Bryan Carroll, Lesley Dickie, and Mark Pilgrim for their ongoing generous support to the SSC. However, at the beginning of the year, there was still a significant funding shortfall for the Chair’s Office for the quadrennium, in the order of £390,000. As a result, Simon has been actively working to recruit new funding partners, and there has been considerable recent success. First, Conservation International has now agreed to extend funding up to the end of June 2014, and huge thanks are due to Russ Mittermeier for this continued generosity. Second, five new Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) Vulnerable. © Mark Auliya Long-billed Vulture chicks (Gyps indicus). © Chris Bowden organizations have agreed to become funding partners of the SSC Chair’s Office: Zoo Copenhagen; the Association of Zoos and Aquariums; Chicago Zoological Society, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland; and Zoo Leipzig. Simon thanks Bengt Holst, Kris Vehrs, Jim Maddy, Stuart Strahl, Chris West and Jörg Junhold for agreeing to provide this new support. Finally, UNEP-WCMC agreed to reduce some administrative costs, and special thanks are due to Jon Hutton and Tim Johnson. As a result of this recent fundraising progress and some saving elsewhere, the funding shortfall for the current IUCN quadrennium has been reduced to £160,000. The current fundraising push is continuing, but the progress has been encouraging. 5. Assisting in the adoption of The IUCN Red List Index (RLI) as an agreed indicator for measuring progress towards globally agreed targets, such as the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets The completion of the reassessment of conifers now makes it possible to calculate the first RLI trend for conifers. Conifers therefore join birds, mammals, amphibians, corals and cycads as the groups with global RLI trends (all downwards). As mentioned above, conifers have deteriorated in their status since the first assessment in 1998, though the exact RLI will not be calculated for a few more months. Other Activities Relating to the Use of Species The IUCN SSC Guiding Principles on Trophy Hunting as a Tool for Creating Conservation Incentives were translated into Chinese, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, with translation into other languages underway. Simon Stuart took part in the TRAFFIC International Trustees Annual General Meeting on 13 February, at which the 2012 accounts were formally approved. On 12 September 2013 a new conservation partnership, United for Wildlife (UfW) was formed, convened by the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. The members of UfW are; Conservation International, Fauna and Flora International, IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF and the 8 IUCN species Annual Report 2013
Zoological Society of London. Simon Stuart is representing IUCN in the UfW meetings. The main foci of UfW are to develop collaborative initiatives to address the illegal wildlife trade, and to bring a new generation of younger people into the conservation movement. Simon Stuart attended a UfW workshop in London on 12-13 December with the intention of identifying some key activities that the UfW partners could do jointly that would make a significant advance in controlling the illegal wildlife trade. The meeting considered a background report, prepared by TRAFFIC, on illegal trade in elephants, rhinos, big cats and pangolins. The results of the workshop are being pulled together, and it is hoped that the UfW will agree on a small number of joint activities on the illegal wildlife trade during 2014. These were announced at the UfW symposium which took place in London on 11–12 February 2014. In December 2013 the SSC Boa and Python SG signed a Letter of Intent with the Kering Group and the International Trade Centre (ITC) of the United Nations to form the Python Conservation Partnership: a programme of work for the sustainable sourcing of python skins from Southeast Asia. There is a growing body of work between the ITC and other SSC Specialist Groups looking at sustainable sources of wildlife products, including with the South American Camelid Specialist Group and Crocodile Specialist Group. ITC is also working with the Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) to develop an analytical framework for evaluating whether or not sustainable sourcing can work for both conservation and livelihoods. 6. Enhancing the work of SSC on plants, fungi, invertebrates and on marine, freshwater and arid-land ecosystems Most of the activities to enhance SSC’s work on these species are already reported on above. As is clear from these reports, there is a significant and growing body of work on plants, invertebrates, and on marine, freshwater and arid-land species (especially reptiles). Progress on fungi is much slower, although the five SSC fungi Specialist Groups have received a grant from the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund to get started on red listing, working in close collaboration with The IUCN Red List Unit. The Pelagic Thresher Shark (Alopias pelagicus) Vulnerable. © Bo Mancao five SSC fungi Specialist Groups convened the Third International Congress for Fungal Conservation in Gökova Bay, Mugla, Turkey on 11–15 November, in partial response to Resolution 033 “Increasing the Attention Given to the Conservation of Fungi”. A major advance has been the launch of the Global Fungal Red List Initiative which should make it much easier for the mycological community to start red listing. The Global Fungal Red List Initiative has been generously funded by the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund. Serious cuts in the SSC Commission Operations Fund mean that it is no longer possible for the SSC Sub-Committees, which come under the SSC Steering Committee, to meet annually. The Freshwater, Invertebrate, Marine and Plant Conservation Sub-Committees are all designed to strengthen the SSC’s work in these areas. The Marine Conservation Sub- Committee met in December 2013, but the others will not meet until later in 2014. However, all of the sub-committees are busy working on the priorities that were developed during the previous IUCN quadrennium, and which are in the 2013-2016 Species Strategic Plan. 7. Promoting a process within the SSC to develop a mechanism for measuring the impact of conservation on species more effectively than is currently possible A meeting was held at the SSC Chair’s Office in Bath on 11–12 February 2013, to continue the work on developing a new mechanism to measure the impact of conservation on species. This work has been significantly delayed because of numerous competing priorities, but progress is being made. The methodology itself is now completed and has been tested by its application to all of the world’s 200+ ungulate species. The details of the application of the methodology have now been checked with SSC Specialist Groups and work will soon start on a scientific publication, which will describe the methodology and its application to ungulates. 8. Conclusion The SSC’s Newsletter Species will be produced once a year from now on and will essentially now be this annual report representing the work of the SSC, including of all of its Specialist Groups, Task Forces, Red List Authorities, Sub- Committees and Working Groups and presenting an overview of the SSC’s activities and accomplishments. Once again, Simon Stuart wishes to thank all of the donors to his office, as well as the SSC Members and GSP staff, too numerous to mention, and in particular the excellent staff in his office: Mike Hoffmann (Senior Scientific Officer); Rachel Roberts (Network Coordination Officer); Jeremy Harris (Development Director); and Jennifer Luedtke (Assistant to the Chair). Simon N. Stuart Chair, IUCN Species Survival Commission Report of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) Chair 9
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