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WCC 2012 Res 034 - Activity Report

Submitted by hasingero on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 13:56
General Information
Strengthening training and capacities for botanical gardens and arboreta staff for the Global Strategy of Plant Conservation (GSPC) 2020 in East Asia
IUCN Constituent: 
IUCN SSC Network support team 2013-2016
IUCN Constituent type: 
5D1F7370-8114-E211-8DEB-002655853524
Period covered: 
2014
Geographic scope: 
Global
South and East Asia
Country/Territory: 
China
Japan
Korea (RK)
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
IUCN Members: 
No other Members are/have been involved
IUCN Commissions: 
IUCN Species Survival Commission 2013-2016 (SSC)
IUCN Secretariat: 
Yes
Other non-IUCN related organisations: 
Botanic Gardens Conservation International; Korea National Arboretum
Implementation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescription
Capacity-buildingGSPC toolkit: A toolkit to support national and regional implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
Capacity-buildingOnline IUCN Red List training: In an effort to improve the availability of Red List training around the world, IUCN, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), has developed the online IUCN Red List Training course. The online Red List Training course "Assessing Species' Extinction Risk using IUCN Red List Methodology" includes all of the topics covered in a typical IUCN Red List...
Scientific/technical activitiesIn 2014, the IUCN SSC China Plant SG continued to digitize plant specimens and initiated the Species Catalogue of China Plant volume project in late 2013.
Scientific/technical activitiesPlant for People Initiative launched which aim at: i) assessing priority plant species important for human livelihoods and publishing these assessment on The Red List of Threatened Species to inform and catalyse action for conservation; ii) develop efficient and integrated Red List assessment and training tools. These both objectives are synergetic to GSPC tragets in East Asia but not...
Scientific/technical activitiesThe Korean Plant Specialist Group (KPSG) moves as a driving engine to achieve the GSPC Targets in Korea. The Korea National Arboretum (KNA) supported the KPSG in 2014 to work on the red listing for Korean plants.
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)
Identify and briefly describe what future actions are planned for the implementation of this Resolution: 
Future ActionDescription
Scientific/technical activitiesPlants 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.
Scientific/technical activitiesThe 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.
Scientific/technical activitiesThe 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.
Additional Information
Upload document: 
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External link(s): 
GSPC toolkit
Online IUCN Red List Training Course