Submitted by
hiltonc
on Sat, 09/05/2015 - 13:50
General Information
Resolution
43984
IUCN Constituent
Cambridge Office
IUCN Constituent type
IUCN Secretariat
Period covered
Geographic scope
Global
Actors involved in implementing this Resolution:
IUCN Members
BirdLife International ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )
Conservation International ( United States of America )
NatureServe ( United States of America )
New Zealand Conservation Authority ( New Zealand )
7D5022D1-B6A3-E011-96D3-002655853524
Wildscreen ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )
Zoological Society of London ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )
IUCN Commissions
5B1D7F64-8114-E211-8DEB-002655853524
IUCN Secretariat
Yes
II. Implementation
Challenges / obstacles encountered in the implementation of this Resolution
Lack of financial funds
Lack of human resources
Describe any challenges encountered in implementing this Resolution and the measures taken
Fund raising efforts as part of the 50th Red List Anniversary celebrations in 2014 have helped to bring in some much resources to help address some of the items under the 2nd Operative Recommendation. The Red List Committee has agreed on the allocation of these funds to achieve diferent components of the Strategic Plan and the funds should be made available in late 2015.
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken
Draft guidelines on the harvesting of threatened species have been prepared and circulated for comment. Once finalised and accepted, these will be incorporated as an Annex into the SSC Guidelines for Appropriate Uses of IUCN Red List Data. The network of trained Red List Trainers continues to grow. The Red List Strategic Plan 2013-2020 is under review and all targets are being updated and revised where necessary; overall there has been good progress despite very limited resources. This is shown through the continued growth of the number of species on the IUCN Red List and the growing numbers of plants, invertebrates, marine organisms and fungi that are being assessed. A major achievement in 2015 was the creation of PDF accounts for all global assessments on the IUCN Red List each with a unique DOI number making them permanently citable and retrievable. The SIS database system has been enhanced through the development of a Data Uploader function to expedite bulk uploads of assessments from external database systems; this is a significant new development to help us reach the 160,000 barometer of life target. National and regional assessment initiatives are supported where possible.
Identify and briefly describe what future actions/activities are planned for the implementation of this Resolution
Future action / activity
Convene stakeholders/Networking
Description
A meeting between members of the Red List Standards & Petitions Subcommittee with the proponents of the clause about insular and island endemics is due to take place in late November 2015 in Sydney, Australia. The aim of this meeting is to work through and resolve the issues raised.
Future action / activity
Convene stakeholders/Networking
Description
The draft guidelines on harvesting of threatened species will be presented and discussed at the IUCN SSC Leaders Meeting taking place in Abu Dhabi in mid-September 2015, after which any further comments will be incorporated and a final version prepared for incorporation as an Annex to the SSC Guidelines for Appropriate Uses of IUCN Red List Data.
Future action / activity
Fundraising
Description
A concerted effort is required to secure the funding needed to undertake all the technological changes and improvements to both SIS and the Red List website. These efforts will seek to build financial sustainability for the IUCN Red List
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
Activities to review, revise and implement the Red List Strategic Plan are planned for the rest of the quadrennium. The working group looking at the consistent listing of Extinct and Possibly Extinct species still has to complete the work it started, but significant progress is being made.
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
Further testing of the Data Uploader function will be carried out using data sets from potentially South Africa (through SANBI), the USA (through NatureServe) and possibly Brazil (CNCFlora or ICMBio).
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
The SSC Climate Change Specialist Group is preparing Guidelines on the methodology for identifying species with life history traits that make them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. These Guidelines will be used by the Red List Standards & Petitions Subcommittee to modify or improve the climate change guidelines for the Red List assessment process.
Future action / activity
Scientific/technical activities
Description
The creation of PDFs and allocation of DOIs will be continued for the remaining global assessments and for all regional assessments published on the IUCN Red List.
Report status
Published
Constituent type
IUCN Secretariat