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Témpore Secretariat by providing technical information and
concerns with regards to pacovicuña breeding in USA. In
November, we participated at the First Board Meeting of the
Vicuña Managing Communities Association and provided
advice. At the national level, several of our members
participated in the first and second workshop to develop a
national census for the guanaco in Argentina, and we took part
in the Preparatory Worksop for the development of a Vicuña
Management Plan. Several of our members were involved in
the development of sustainable use initiatives for vicuñas and
guanacos. At present, we are assessing a law proposal that
wants to put the management of guanaco on the same basis
as sheep in Argentinean Patagonia.
Red List Authority members started working on the
reassessment of vicuñas and guanacos at the species level
which will be finished in April 2014. This assessment will be
followed by an assessment at the subspecies level, to be
undertaken during 2014. We have developed new quantitative
guidelines for the admission of new group members; the new
assessments will be based on research and academic
experience on South American wild camelids, dissemination
activities, articulation with the public sector, priority areas, and
present engagement with camelid research. In our visit to
Ecuador, IUCN-Sur filmed an interview where we promoted the
work of our group and discussed the conservation challenges
for vicuñas and guanacos.
We would like to thank the Copenhagen Zoo for their
support, which enabled us to attend the Vicuña Convention.
Dr Gabriela Lichtenstein
Chair, South American Camelid Specialist Group
South Asian Invertebrate Specialist Group
The objective of the South Asian Invertebrate Specialist Group
Vicuñas en los Andes. © Dr Gabriela Lichtenstein
(SAsISG) is to influence, encourage, and assist societies in
South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,
Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) to conserve invertebrate
diversity; to achieve it through knowledge, empowerment,
governance and operations.
We collated and created baseline information on butterflies
of South Asia; for 750 species of butterflies from six families.
The objective of the project is to assess and to develop a
conservation action plan for this region. We initiated a project
to collate species information on millipedes of India, for
species assessment at a later date. We conducted an
invertebrate pollinator conservation training and education
workshop in India, in collaboration with international and local
partners. This exercise will be repeated to cover the rest of the
region. We designed and published educational materials on
invertebrate pollinator conservation. Recommendations of the
Western Ghats freshwater biodiversity assessment report were
implemented, and wide awareness was created through
training and outreach.
We greatly acknowledge the following donors for their
generous support – Zoological Society of London, Mohamed
bin Zyed Conservation Fund, Chester Zoo, Xerces Society,
Columbus Zoo and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund.
Dr Bexell Ayyachamy Daniel and Dr Muhammad
Ather Rafi
Co-chairs, South Asian Invertebrate Specialist Group
Southern African Plant Specialist Group
The Southern African Plant Specialist Group (SAPSG) consists
of 20 botanists working in Southern African countries (South
Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe,
Botswana and Namibia). The main aim of this group is to
conduct conservation assessments of plant species endemic
to the region, and to ensure the effective monitoring and
conservation of plant species of conservation concern.
During 2013, extensive work on surveying the woody flora
of northern Mozambique was undertaken by members of the
SAPSG. This area has been found to contain high numbers of
endemic woody species (85) and it also shares many
restricted range species with the Lindi region of southern
Tanzania. As a result of this work, a new centre of endemism
shared between northern Mozambique and southern Tanzania
called the Rovuma centre will be published. The rich forests of
Pill millipede, Agumbe rainforest, Karnataka. © Blnu Priya
84 IUCN species Annual Report 2013