CAMP for Mammals of India - Zoo Outreach Organisation

3. To create a set of "survey, search and find" recommendations for the species that clearly lack information(DD species).4. To create a set of conservation recommendations for species that are threatened.5. To list the problems working groups had in applying the revised IUCN Red List criteria to species forforwarding to the Task Force which is to be set up to review the application of the revised criteria so far.6. To produce a Draft Report of the work done to be sent for correction to participants and then a Report toorganisations and individuals relevant to conservation of Indian mammals.Results and DiscussionRed List categories have been in use since the 1960s with few revisions made until 1990. The criteria on whichthese categories are based and – for the most part – their intended application were based on mammals.However, since 1991, the IUCN Red List Categories have undergone a series of revisions to enhance theirapplicability to organisms other than mammals and to reflect the development of the new conservation sciences,population dynamics and conservation biology of the last two decades. The current version of the IUCN RedList Criteria is the version that was ratified in December 1994 by the IUCN General Assembly. This version hasfar more objective criteria for assessment as well as detailed guidelines on how to use the criteria in deriving thecategory of threat status. Therefore mammal evaluation, as well as other organisms, has benefited from therevisions. The categories can be divided into 5 divisions as illustrated in the list and figure below1. Extinct (Extinct and Extinct in the Wild),2. Threatened (Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable),3. Non-threatened (Lower Risk -- near threatened, conservation dependent and least concern),4. Data Deficient and5. Not EvaluatedStructure of the CategoriesExtinctExtinct in the WildCritically endangered(Threatened)EndangeredVulnerable(Adequatedata)Lower riskConservationdependentNear threatenedEvaluatedLeast ConcernData DeficientNot EvaluatedMethodologyIn the past global species evaluation and even Red Data Books have been a compilation of information by oneperson or a group of persons, usually from temperate countries, who have access to all available literature ondistribution and ecological information with reference to a particular species. The status according to old IUCNcategories was derived based on the compiler’s perception of the status as understood from the compiledliterature. Later, this exercise was broadened to include some range country representatives from differentcontinental regions if the exercise was global in scope, such as the IUCN Red Data Books. In India national levelReport of BCPP CAMP on mammals of India 33