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AcknowledgementsAssessing species for the IUCN Red List of ThreatenedSpecies relies on the willingness of dedicated experts tocontribute and pool their collective knowledge, thusallowing the most reliable judgments of a species’ statusto be made. Without their enthusiastic commitment tospecies conservation, this work would not be possible.We would therefore like to thank all of the IUCN SharkSpecialist Group (SSG) Mediterranean members andinvited regional and international experts whoparticipated at the San Marino workshop; Marco Affronte,Irene Bianchi, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai, Simona Clò,Rui Paul Coelho, Francesco Ferretti, Javier Guallart, FeridHaka, Nils-Roar Hareide, Farid Hemida, Cecilia Mancusi,Imène Meliane, Gabriel Morey, Manal Nader, GuiseppeNotarbartolo di Sciara, Persefoni Megalofounou, TitianSchembri, Fabrizio Serena, Alen Soldo, Fausto Tinti, NicolaUngaro, Marino Vacchi, Ramón Bonfil, Nick Dulvy, IanFergusson, Sarah Fowler, Charlotte Mogensen andRansom Myers. We would also like to thank all the SSGmembers who have subsequently been involved inreviewing assessments.Particular gratitude is expressed to Imène Meliane andAmeer Abdulla of the IUCN Global Marine Programme;and Helen Temple of the IUCN Red List Programme forreviewing this document and especially to Sarah Fowler,IUCN SSG Co-chair, for her continual support.We gratefully acknowledge Leonard Compagno andFabrizio Serena for help in compiling the regional checklistfor this report, and Sarah Ashworth, Sarah Valenti andAdel Heenan for all the work they have undertaken incontributing to reviewing and editing species assessments.We would also like to thank Peter Kyne for extremelyhelpful discussions.Finally, we would like to thank Alejandro Sancho Rafelfor providing the illustrations.The work presented in this report was supported by theIUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, the Davidand Lucile Packard Foundation and the UK Departmentfor Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).Participants of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Mediterranean Red List Workshop, September 2003, San Marino.v