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A recent study by researchers at the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, in close collaboration with scientists at Natural England (NE), British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) has found that nearly 40% of British bird populations are...
Learn MoreYou may have won one at the funfair as a child, but for 31% of cactus species, survival is much more of a roller coaster. The first comprehensive, global assessment of 1,480 cactus species was published by the IUCN this week, showing that nearly one-third were threatened with extinction. Why? This is primarily due to the illegal trade of live plants and seeds for...
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This landmark publication gives us, for the first time, a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the national conservation status of the 208 species of Nepalese mammals. Almost a quarter of Nepal’s mammals are threatened with extinction (23%). However, the true percentage of threatened mammals will probably be much worse than this, because 38% of the species...
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We have now arrived at the very last part of the Nepalese Red List of Mammals project – the final publication. I am now back in the UK to finish the project off, and hope that the publication is something that the Nepalese will be proud of. The contribution to the project from people across the conservation community in Nepal has been outstanding and Nepal is a country...
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The National Workshop for the Red List of Nepal Mammals was held April 7th and 8th 2010 at the new NTNC (National Trust for Nature Conservation) Conservation and Research building in Lalitpur, Nepal. In attendance were Nepal’s finest in the conservation community and after a lot of nervousness (mostly from me) the workshop went very well indeed. 40 participants...
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We are now in the final stages of the project. Preliminary species reports have been completed using all available information: literature searches, unpublished and published reports and personal communications with local scientists and field technicians. Now all that remains is to organise the national workshop to make the final and formal conservation assessments for...
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National Red Lists - IUCN | Zoological Society of London