Reptiles

SPREP presents these guidelines for undertaking rapid biodiversity assessments in its Pacific island member countries and territories: Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. These assessments are referred to as BIORAPs. The guidelines are recommended to be used by SPREP members for the planning and implementation of terrestrial and marine BIORAP surveys, and subsequent monitoring of important sites. 

The Jamaican Iguana Recovery Group (JIRG) is a consortium of local Jamaican organizations and international conservation groups that held a workshop in July 2006 to formulate this Species Recovery Plan (SRP) for the Jamaican iguana. The document presents the priority conservation actions and organizational responsibility for those activities discussed at the workshop.

A book about the threatened animals of Greece, with notes on distribution, population status, ecology, threats, protection measures and bibliographic references for each species. The book contains also a complete list of all the vertebrates of Greece.

The aim of the present report is to examine the changing context within which the reptile skin trade has existed (“where we came from”), the extent of the current industry and its regulatory strengths and weaknesses (“where we are now”), and what the future can or should bring (“where we go from here”).

El libro está organizado en dos secciones principales: en la primera se presentan los capítulos introducción, metodología, diversidad de vertebrados cubanos y sus amenazas de extinción, regiones cubanas y su diversidad de vertebrados, listas previas de vertebrados cubanos amenazados, y un análisis de la presencia de vertebrados cubanos amenazados en las áreas protegidas.

Mit der Roten Liste Wirbeltiere wird der erste Band einer neuen, insgesamt sechsteiligen aktuellen Roten Liste vorgelegt. Seit der Herausgabe der letzten Roten Liste der Tiere im Jahr 1998 wurden die methodischen Grundlagen weiter entwickelt. Die Einstufung erfolgt jetzt für alle erfassten Artengruppen nachvollziehbar anhand von einheitlichen Kriterien. Der Band enthält die Roten Listen der Säugetiere, Brutvögel, Kriechtiere, Lurche und Süßwasserfische Deutschlands.