Dear all
BirdLife International is seeking input for the 2012 IUCN Red List update via the Globally Threatened Bird Forums.
BirdLife International invites you to participate in an online consultation process to discuss proposed revisions to the global threat status (i.e. IUCN Red List category
of extinction risk) for selected species in each region or relevant to each taxonomic specialist group.
Globally Threatened Bird
(GTB)
Forums website
Last year we moved the forums to a new platform, which may be found at
www.birdlife.org/globally-threatened-bird-forums.
We hope that this relatively new site, which is now better integrated with the rest of the BirdLife website, will prove more user-friendly than the old one. Please read the
welcome
and instruction
pages for more details.
How your information and opinion can influence the global conservation status of the world’s birds
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Click each link to view a short topic on each species, giving the rationale for the status review or a request for information.
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Make your contribution through the forum by typing it in the box below the topic, and then clicking "Post a comment". Posts are then added subsequently by forum moderators
(therefore there may be a delay before your posting appears on the site). For contributions that are used, your name and affiliation will be explicitly acknowledged in the species accounts that will appear on the BirdLife and IUCN websites, and in future publications.
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The initial deadline for
contributions is 5 December 2011, when we will assess the contributions made
and post up a draft list of preliminary decisions. You will then have two more weeks to comment further. Final decisions will be made and posted up on 19 December 2011. The revised species assessments and updated factsheets will be released on the BirdLife
website in May 2012, and incorporated into the IUCN Red List later in the year..
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To maximise feedback, please distribute this message as
quickly and widely as possible to relevant people within your networks.
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Note that the selected species under discussion are those for which newly published information is available (or new unpublished information has been sent to BirdLife)
that implies a revision may be appropriate given the IUCN Red List criteria
and quantitative thresholds. If you would like to propose additional species to be reviewed, please post a comment on the relevant ‘Suggestions for new topics’ discussion,
or email andy.symes@birdlife.org,
in either case giving details of population/range estimates that may require revision.
The 2012 comprehensive Red List update
2012 will see the release of the new comprehensive four-yearly Red List update, so in addition to the annual forum discussions we are also currently updating the factsheets
and Red List assessments for over 2,000 Globally Threatened, Near Threatened (NT) and Data Deficient
(DD) species. The comprehensive update involves extensive consultation with local, national, regional and species experts, who review and update our existing data and factsheet information. We may contact some of you separately in the coming weeks and
months to request your help in this process, so please accept our apologies if you receive several emails from us. In addition, if you have particular knowledge of one or more threatened, NT or DD species or of key sites where these species occur, and would
be willing to help in this process, then please do get in touch with Andy Symes
andy.symes@birdlife.org or Joe Taylor
joe.taylor@birdlife.org. And if you are aware of any inaccuracies in the
information on our species factsheets, or of relevant
new data on distribution, population, trends or threats, now’s the time to let us know!
Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation. We look forward to receiving your contributions via the web forum
before 5 December 2011.
For
further information, contact Andy Symes, Global Species Programme Officer, BirdLife International (andy.symes@birdlife.org).
Many thanks to all,
The Global Species Pogramme team