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hasingero
on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 13:56
General Information
Resolution
44001
IUCN Constituent
IUCN SSC Network support team 2013-2016
IUCN Constituent type
5D1F7370-8114-E211-8DEB-002655853524
Period covered
Geographic scope
Global
South and East Asia
Country/Territory
China
Japan
Korea (RK)
Actors involved in implementing this Resolution:
IUCN Members
No other Members are/have been involved
IUCN Commissions
5B1D7F64-8114-E211-8DEB-002655853524
IUCN Secretariat
Yes
Other non-IUCN related organisations
Botanic Gardens Conservation International; Korea National Arboretum
II. Implementation
Challenges / obstacles encountered in the implementation of this Resolution
Lack of financial funds
Lack of human resources
Lack of information on other partners
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken
Plant for People Initiative: A total of 6,368 global assessments of plants were published on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ since the beginning of the project and the activities related to tool development to aid plant assessments are close to completion.
Online IUCN Red List training: On 1st April 2014, the French and Spanish versions of the online IUCN Red List Training course were released making the course available for the first time in all three official IUCN languages.
GSPC toolkit: This website has been developed on the basis of guidance from the Conference of the Parties to the CBD and recommendations from meetings of the GSPC Liaison Group.
IUCN SSC Korean Plant SG: Professor Chin-Sung CHANG, Red List Authority Coordinator of the Korean Plant Specialist Group with colleagues published the “Checklist of Vascular Plants in Korea”, which is the first publication of this kind in the Korean peninsula. This document has provided baseline information regarding species information and their status.
IUCN SSC China Plant SG: 300,000 sheets from 18 herbaria are newly digitized and their information is accessible on the Chinese Virtual Herbarium (http://www.cvh.org.cn)
Online IUCN Red List training: On 1st April 2014, the French and Spanish versions of the online IUCN Red List Training course were released making the course available for the first time in all three official IUCN languages.
GSPC toolkit: This website has been developed on the basis of guidance from the Conference of the Parties to the CBD and recommendations from meetings of the GSPC Liaison Group.
IUCN SSC Korean Plant SG: Professor Chin-Sung CHANG, Red List Authority Coordinator of the Korean Plant Specialist Group with colleagues published the “Checklist of Vascular Plants in Korea”, which is the first publication of this kind in the Korean peninsula. This document has provided baseline information regarding species information and their status.
IUCN SSC China Plant SG: 300,000 sheets from 18 herbaria are newly digitized and their information is accessible on the Chinese Virtual Herbarium (http://www.cvh.org.cn)
Identify and briefly describe what future actions/activities are planned for the implementation of this Resolution
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
Plants for People: Additional fundraising for the P4P initiative and building synergies with other projects/programme to leverage more fund aimed at strengthening training and capacity for botanical gardens and arboreta staff on redlisting which is a synergetic activity to GSPC targets.
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
The IUCN SSC China Plant SG: their main goal in 2015 is to complete the publication of the Red List of China Higher Plants. The list has already been officially launched online in 2013 by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
The IUCN SSC Korean Plant SG (KPSG) and the IUCN SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group (Mr P. Soorae) recently discussed to have co-workshop on plant re-introduction in 2016. Secondly, the training of younger generations is rather urgent. The KPSG and the Global Species Programme will collaborate to build capacity among the younger generations.
III. Additional Information
Upload document
cbd-ts-81-en.pdf
(2.02 MB)
External link(s)
Report status
Published
Constituent type
IUCN SSC Steering Committee 2013-2016