IUCN guidelines on responsible translocation of displaced organisms
2025
Sherman, Julie |
Menon, Vivek |
Kock, Richard |
King, Tony |
Luz, Sonja |
N.V.K., Ashraf |
Soorae, Pritpal S. |
Moehrenschlager, Axel |
Displaced organisms are individuals and groups of animals, plants, or fungi that have been recovered from legal or illegal trade, driven from their habitats through habitat destruction or human-wildlife conflicts, displaced or incapacitated by catastrophic events (fires, floods, and extreme weather events) or climate change, or captured or collected by humans. The full scale of irresponsibly translocated organisms is difficult to measure as most are unrecorded.