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During November, we signed the Python Conservation Partnership (PCP) with the luxury brand Kering (owner of Gucci) and the International Trade Centre (ITC). This is a threeyear initiative which aims to contribute to the improved sustainability of the python trade and help facilitate industrywide change. This partnership was the result of a year of conversations with our partners, and two meetings held in Florence (July) and Geneva (October), as well as different missions to visit CITES authorities in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Thanks to the initiative of two BPSG members, the Inaugural Meeting of the Caribbean and Latin American Boid Group was held at the Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico in Arecibo during early August. As a result of this meeting, the membership of the BPSG will increase to about 90 members and we expect to increase our capacity for future Red List assessments. Red List assessments continue under the monitoring of Mark Auliya, our RLA Coordinator. We continue compiling and editing our newsletter Serpens twice a year, and updating the BPSG’s Facebook page thanks to Jessica Lyons. We would like to acknowledge Fundación Biodiversidad – Argentina for providing us with an executive office and to the Office Vétérinaire Federal of Switzerland for funding our year running costs. Tomás Waller Chair, Boa and Python Specialist Group Brazil Plant Red List Authority During 2013, we concluded the assessment of 4,617 taxa (58 of them are subspecies or varieties of plants). From this total, 2,118 species were assessed as threatened and an official document was delivered to the Ministry of Environment. For The IUCN Red List, it is also relevant to mention that of these 4,617 taxa, 3,341 are global assessments (i.e. endemics) and 1,276 are national assessments (not endemics or unknown if endemic or not). Of the definite endemics, 1,816 are threatened. We are collaborating with the Ministry of Environment in order to improve and discuss some of the existing legal documents regarding flora conservation in Brazil. We have developed a system for flora extinction risk assessment and threatened species data compiling, where specialists can contribute online. We published the first Brazilian Flora Red Book. This is the first time that Brazil has used the IUCN system to rigorously assess plant species. We launched the CNCFlora website and Facebook page, and started using social media to improve communication with researchers and the public. Working as consultants, we assisted Brazilian states and other countries with the implementation of Red Listing processes and flora conservation strategies. We also organized scientific expeditions to remote places, which involved data gathering for many threatened species. Action plans continue to be developed for threatened species. Looking forward, we need to improve support among specialists and conservation organizations to assess the extremely high number of Brazilian species. The low budget and lack of consistent support from Brazilian authorities and global organizations prevents us from achieving this task. Laws protecting threatened species, especially the ones with economic value do exist, but are not always enforced, so this Alstroemeria caryophyllaea jacq. © Marco Octavio O. Pellegrini needs updating. To date, there are 43,788 plant species in our flora, and according to GSPC’s target 2; all species must be assessed, so we have a long way to go! We hope to raise the necessary funds to support more capacity building, research and conservation strategies. We also hope to increase collaboration between conservation organizations and the public. We continue the assessment of flora species; updating previously concluded assessments, planning conservation actions for all threatened species, as well as identifying priority areas for flora conservation in Brazil. Dr Gustavo Martinelli Brazil Plant Red List Authority Coordinator Bryophyte Specialist Group The mission and key objective of our Specialist Group has been to highlight the importance of recognising bryophytes in all areas of nature conservation. This is essential, since bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and Sorapilla papuana – a moss we suspected to be Extinct in Australia as it had not been seen for 150 years, but it was recently re-discovered in Queensland. © Bill Malcolm 36 IUCN species Annual Report 2013
hornworts) are very often Endangered, however, usually forgotten and neglected. Our Specialist Group currently comprises 26 members in 22 countries. In March, we had a European Red List workshop in Sweden, where we updated all country distributional information. For the first time, the latest Red Data Book of Brazilian Flora contains bryophytes, it can be downloaded here. Two students in Brazil are working on action planning for the conservation of four endemic species of Sphagnum and other biologists are doing surveys in the Atlantic South East of Brazil. As part of her conservation efforts in Panama, our member Dr Noris Salazar has published and distributed an educational poster on bryophytes (The Mosses. Minute lanterns of the Forest) to schools and universities. This was done with financial support from the Women’s Committee of Smithsonian Institution and Phase II of the Panamanian Atlantic Biological Corridor (CBMAP II) of the National Authority of the Environment (ANAM). Our member in Venezuela, Dr Y. León-Vargas, has finished the web page of the Venezuelan Red List of Bryophytes. This includes some important inventories of bryophytes in the Coastal Cordillera and the Parámo region. At present, Dr J. A. Harpel is preparing summary status reports for two of the rare bryophytes in Canada. She is also working with the Bureau of Land Management, Salem District’s botanist to publish a book on the rare bryophytes of Oregon (US). This book will feature short fact sheets on each species, accompanied by a set of colour photos revealing the morphology of each species. Dr Benito C. Tan (Singapore/USA) attended the ASEAN meeting in the Philippines at the end of November, where he made a suggestion to host a workshop on the biodiversity and conservation of non-flowering plant groups in SE Asia. This workshop will be held in Bogor, Indonesia in 2014, funded by the Japanese Ministry of Environment. He will be the resource person at the workshop, teaching the biodiversity and conservation of bryophytes in SE Asia for a total of 20 representatives of SE Asian countries, who are park officers and biology teachers. Dr David Meagher (our representative in Australia) reported that for 2013, several species newly recorded in Victoria were added to the advisory list of rare and threatened bryophytes used by land managers for planning purposes in that state. A draft list of nationally Endangered bryophytes has been prepared for discussion and will be published in the next issue of the Australasian Bryological Newsletter (June 2014). Raising the public’s awareness of bryophytes continues to be a focus of conservation-related work. An expedition to find Sorapilla papuana, one of the rarest bryophytes in Australia, was successful and was widely reported in Australian media. A field guide to the mosses of the dry forests of South-eastern Australia is scheduled to be published in February 2014. This project was undertaken by Friends of Box-Ironbark Forests and was led by Dr Cassia Read. Tomas Hallingbäck Chair, Bryophyte Specialist Group Bumblebee Specialist Group Our aim is to foster the conservation of bumblebees (c. 250 species) and their habitats around the world. The group consists currently of 75 members from 22 countries. Our Bombus alpinus. © Pierre Rasmont newsletter Bumblebee Conservator was introduced, edited by Ed Spevak (Saint Louis Zoo). The first regional Red List assessments were completed for Europe with support from IUCN and assessments for 10 species are published on The IUCN Red List: Bombus alpinus, B. inexspectatus, B. lapponicus, B. magnus, B. mendax, B. mucidus, B. perezi, B. pereziellus, B. pyrenaeus, and B. reinigiellus. In North America, all draft assessments are nearly ready for review and one species (B. franklini) is published on The IUCN Red List. In South America, draft assessments are nearing completion for at least half of the species. In Mesoamerica, intensive field surveys continue. In Asia, the faunas are larger and their taxonomy and distribution is less well known, so much more remains to be done. In North Asia, bumblebee distributions are being mapped with first versions of maps to go online at the end of the year, although field surveys and quantification of populations continues. In West Asia, field surveys are being extended to new areas in Iran. In East Asia, with half of the world’s species, field surveys have extended into remote and rarely visited areas such as the Kunlun mountains, and the first guide with keys and distribution maps to the bumblebees of North China (78 species) has been produced. An international workshop for Regional Coordinators of the BBSG is planned and funding is being sought. In Russia, the second edition of the Red Book of Tomsk Oblast was published, which included four bumblebee species: B. confusus, B. modestus, B. muscorum and B. patagiatus. In Canada, B. affinis had previously been listed as Endangered (largely based on IUCN criteria) federally and provincially. Three other species are now under assessment: B. bohemicus, B. occidentalis, and B. terricola. In the US, a petition for protection of B. affinis under the ESA has been submitted by the Xerces Society. Paul Williams Chair, Bumblebee Specialist Group Bustard Specialist Group The mission of the Bustard Specialist Group is to advise on, support and contribute to the conservation of the three highly threatened bustards in the Indian subcontinent and Cambodia. The Bustard Specialist Group currently comprises Specialist Groups, Task Forces and Red List Authorities 37
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