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Richard P. Reading,Vice President for Conservation,Denver Zoological FoundationI am honored to have the opportunity to provide aforward to Global Re-introduction Perspectives:2013: Further case studies from around the globepublished by the IUCN Re-introduction SpecialistGroups (RSG) and edited by Pritpal Soorae. Withinthis four volume set, Pritpal has pulled together anamazing 236 case studies on a wide variety of taxa from plant toinvertebrates to vertebrates from all over the world.Through these case studies and the recently released Guidelines for Reintroductionsand Other Conservation Translocations by the Reintroductionand Invasive Species Specialist Groups’ Task Force forMoving Plants and Animals for Conservation Purposes, the RSG hasproduced a valuable set of references for current and future translocationpractitioners as they strive to restore populations of species depleted bythe growing human footprint on our planet and finite resources.The Denver Zoological Foundation is proud to support this publication andother RSG efforts to improve re-introduction success throughout theglobe. We congratulate Pritpal Soorae on this fine accomplishment andextend our thanks to Dr. Frédéric Launay and the RSG for supporting thisimportant publication, Dr. Simon Stuart and the IUCN Species SurvivalCommission, The Environment Agency – ABU DHABI, and especially tothe contributors to this volume for their excellent summaries of reintroductioncase studies from around the world.ix