Endangered species

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) was opened for signature in Washington DC on 3rd March 1973, and to date has 182 Parties from across the world. If CITES is to remain a credible instrument for conserving species affected by trade, the decisions of the Parties must be based on the best available scientific and technical information.

The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. The general aim of the system is to provide an explicit, objective framework for the classification of the broadest range of species according to their extinction risk.

Erstmals wird in diesem Buch das bisher äußerst verborgene Leben der Graupapageien in der Natur geschildert. Spannende Reportagen nehmen den Leser mit in die Wälder Zentralafrikas und auf einsame Inseln vor der Küste. Der Schlüssel zur artgerechten Haltung der beiden Unterarten Timneh-Graupapagei und Graupapagei sind die Kenntnisse über ihr Freileben.

The helmeted hornbill faces a conservation crisis that requires an urgent response. A conservation planning workshop bringing together a multistakeholder group consisting of government agencies, non-government organisations, academia, field experts, donors and a zoological institution was held in Sarawak, Malaysia in May 2017 to construct such a response.

This updated publication is an effort to publicize the plight of tortoises and freshwater turtles by highlighting those species that are at the highest risk of extinction, in hopes that by calling greater attention to these magnifcent animals, we can help generate more international attention, more resources, and more conservation action to save them.