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years, and has sponsored regular meetings of polar bear scientists at which cooperative research and management programmes are worked out. The Agreement requires ratification, approval or accession by three states before it will enter into force. In practice, however, many of its features have already been put into effect. Red Data Book Accumulation and evaluation of data on threatened species is an essential operation in planning priorities and strategies, and in this effort production of the Red Data Book is of first importance. Heretofore, five volumes have been published, each dealing with a major group of endangered species. In early <strong>1973</strong> a comprehensive revision of Volume 1, Mammalia, was published. The revision involved a recasting of the format of the data sheets, adoption of redefined categories of threatened species, and introduction of data sheets for species in the "vulnerable" class. A similar revision of Volume 2, Aves, was undertaken by Warren B. King for the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) and it is hoped this will be ready for issue in 1974 or early 1975. The compiler of Volume 3, Amphibia and Reptilia, René E. Honegger, is currently working with the Secretariat on the preparation of revised data sheets in the new format. It is expected that this revision also will be ready issue next year. Following discussions with the compiler of Volume 5, Angiospermae, Ronald Melville, it has been decided to adopt a different approach and to substitute for that volume a Red Data Book Volume on plants. Instead of issuing a data sheet for each species, separate compilations listing threatened species of plants in a specific area, together with notes relating to conservation action needed, will be prepared. In addition it is proposed occasionally to prepare a compilation dealing with the threatened members of a family or other natural group of plants. Approaches have been made to a number of specialists in various parts of the world, and it appears that a much larger effort in compiling these volumes will be feasible. Several units in the new format are currently being prepared. Primates A meeting of invited experts to define action priorities and plans for primate conservation was hosted by the Medical Research Centre, 79
Carshalton, UK, in November, under the sponsorship of IUCN/WWF Joint Project Operations. The following priorities for action programmes were agreed upon: anthropoids as species priority targets; conservation of their habitats as action priority targets; and Cameroon rain forest as the habitat priority target. It was, however, noted that serious endangerment of other primate species would continue to merit high priority action. Thus IUCN/WWF support has been given to work at Tijuca National Park (Brazil) under the direction of Alceo Magnanini in breeding lion marmosets, probably the rarest and most endangered of the New World monkeys, linked with work to establish reserves for these animals. Following the Carshalton meeting IUCN took action to form a Primate Specialist Group as a small action group representative of the various geographical areas, associated with a panel of specialist consultants. Various projects are being elaborated within the defined priorities. Whales The Executive Board in May examined the decision of the 11th General Assembly (Banff, 1972) endorsing recommendations of the UN Stockholm Conference calling for a 10-year moratorium on whaling in the light of comments submitted by the Whale Specialist Group. It considered that there was insufficient scientific information to assess adequately the effects of exploitation of whale species on the ecosystems to which the exploited species belonged, and noted that there were inherent sources of uncertainty in assessments of whale stocks and yield calculations. Until additional sources of data and further independent assessments were available, any proposed policy of whale cropping should, therefore, adopt the most conservative estimates, especially in view of errors that had been made in the past in setting quotas too high. The Board noted that although the scientific evidence available did not indicate that the total populations of sei, sperm or minke whales were being overharvested by present levels of exploitation, there was evidence that some discrete sei and sperm whale populations were in danger of overexploitation and that there had been a serious reduction of populations of fin whales in the southern hemisphere and north Pacific. A moratorium for fin whales in these areas would permit the most rapid recovery of stocks. The Board went on to take into account factors other than those presented by its scientific advisory body. Among these was the belief 80
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Conservation of Endangered Species
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wild animals and plants in their na
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THE ENVIRONMENT IN 1973 Limits to G
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country is untouched, and as this i
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Immediately after the war, in 1918,
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The Union in action The first Gener
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since the Union has usually taken o
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Page 58 and 59: REVIEW OF IUCN ACTIVITIES The broad
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Page 66 and 67: protection and control. This study
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Page 70 and 71: Future of the Alps There is increas
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Page 86 and 87: Environmental Education and Public
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APPENDIX H Statement of income and
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