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20000180001600014000120001000080006000400020000Number of Red List assessments 2009-2012by taxonomic group18,5938,6904,272 3,767 3,052 2,315832 151Total: 41,672FIGURE 1: RED LIST ASSESSMENTS BY TAXONOMIC GROUPA large number of IUCN authors also made significant contributions to peer reviewed journals andother influential publications. One of the most significant peer-reviewed articles co-authored by IUCNin the last four years is The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates byHoffmann et al (2010), as the first-ever global measure of the impact of conservation. Anotherinfluential article, Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines by Butchart, et al (2010)demonstrated that the CBD 2010 Target was not met and provided a basis for the Global BiodiversityOutlook 3.IUCN also increasingly engaged in species conservation planning and action at local, regional andglobal levels, in capacity building for the implementation of conservation actions as well as in directspecies conservation actions. This is a growing area of work as a number of IUCN Species SurvivalCommission (SSC) Specialist Groups move beyond Red List assessments to promote speciesconservation action more proactively.A number of diverse conservation planning initiatives have been selected for support, including onSawfish, the Brown Howler Monkey in Brazil, the Wild Water Buffalo in India, the Golden MantellaFrog in Madagascar, the Ethiopian Wolf, and threatened land animals in Djibouti. Responding to theneed to promote conservation action more aggressively, investments have also been made to developthe new “Action Asia” initiative on threatened vertebrates in Southeast Asia, and on intertidal wetlandsimportant for migratory birds in East Asia.To address the amphibian extinction crisis, a new inter-institutional Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA)was formed. As a result of the work of ASA, the amphibian Ark; and the IUCN Amphibian SpecialistGroup, twelve national and regional amphibian action plans have been or are being developed, 55threatened species protected in situ (including 22,000 ha of new protected areas), conservation needshave been assessed for 2,435 amphibian species, and ex-situ programmes have been established for100 threatened species.The Save Our Species (SOS) fund was launched and in 2010 made five grants of 0.625m USDcovering 37 species and in 2011 a further 23 grants of 3.3m USD covering 67 species leading to thedevelopment of conservation strategies and increased protection of habitats. SOS grants targetconservation action on the ground, largely implemented by IUCN Members.Area under protection grew by over 800 km 2 for terrestrial and over 9000 km 2 for marine and IUCN’swork on World Heritage led to the inscription and/or extension of 20 new natural World Heritageproperties. While IUCN cannot claim responsibility for the growth in protected areas in all cases, this isa positive sign (see Figure 2).335