John is an ecologist and conservation biologist with more than 25 years of experience working at the science-policy interface. He has a wide range of interests and has worked nationally and ...
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 COMMISSION GROUP
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 SSC Cycad Specialist Group
Overview and description
Description:
It consists of a group of volunteer experts addressing conservation issues related to cycads, a highly threatened group of land plants.
Group leadership
Prof John DONALDSON
Co-Chair
John is an ecologist and conservation biologist with more than 25 years of experience working at the science-policy interface. He has a wide range of interests and has worked nationally and internationally on biodiversity conservation, wildlife trade, plant ecology, biological invasions, the impact of genetically modified organisms and mainstreaming biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. John was Chief Director of biodiversity science and assessment at the South African National Biodiversity Institute until 2020, and has subsequently been a panel member of the Scientific & Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the GEF and is an extraordinary professor in the Dept of Plant & Soil Sciences at the Universityof Pretoria. He has been involved in the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Cycad Specialist Group since 1996 and the Plant Conservation Committee siince 2001 and serves as the Chief Scientific Officer for Wild Cycad Conservancies, an NGO established to operationalise the conservation actions identified by the Cycad Specialist Group.
More about the Specialist Group
The CSG exists to bring together the world鈥檚 cycad conservation expertise, and to disseminate this expertise to organizations and agencies which can use this guidance to advance cycad conservation. The CSG published a status survey and conservation action plan for cycads in 2003.
Specialist Group work
Coordinate extinction risk assessments for cycads for the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Red List of Threatened Species, maintain an up to date consensus taxonomy for this group, promote sustainable practices in trade and utilization of cycads, and advancing our understanding of this highly threatened plant group.
20 papers were published by the Cycad Specialist Group, providing information to advise cycad conservation.
To inform conservation efforts, CSG assesses species for the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Red List of Threatened Species.
Encephalartos Friderici-Guilielmi. Credit: 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 SSC Cycad Specialist Group (CSG).
Zamia Lucayana. Credit: 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 SSC Cycad Specialist Group (CSG).
Zamia oligodonta. Credit: 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 SSC Cycad Specialist Group (CSG).
