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Shaikha Al Dhaheri,Executive Director,Terrestrial & Marine Biodiversity Sector,Environment Agency - ABU DHABIIt gives us great pleasure and honor in supportingthe production of the 4 th issue of the Global ReintroductionPerspectives 2013. It is exciting to knowthat those 236 case studies will be read by morethan 300 members, practitioners and decisionmakers throughout the RSG network and beyond,who will get the advantage to use it as a tool and reference for futureprograms and projects that will combat the continuous loss of speciesthrough re-introductions and translocation.Small or big, success or failure, all these case-studies have surely made adifference in regard to the targeted species. This has been achieved byvarious means such as stabilizing populations, or re-establishing them,increasing their numbers in ex situ collections as they have sufferedsignificant declines or even extinction in the wild.Species re-introductions are an important feature of global conservationefforts and for the newly developed IUCN Guidelines for Re-introductionand Other Conservation Translocations along with this RSG edition will actas a powerful reference worldwide and especially to us in the EnvironmentAgency embarking into new initiatives of re-introduction andtranslocations.Finally, I would like to thank all practitioners and conservationists whoshared their case-studies with us in this edition for their commitment,dedication and passion towards conserving species. Also I thank DenverZoological Foundation for supporting RSG efforts, the editor of this editionMr. Pritpal Soorae, Dr. Frédéric Launay, RSG Chair and Dr. Simon StuartChair IUCN Survival Commission for their continued devotion andcontribution to species conservation worldwide.viii