Working Group Report: Review and Reconsideration of the IUCN Technical Guidelines on the Management of Ex Situ Populations for Conservation: Why, when (and how) to establish an ex situ population
- Bonal, B.S
- Corder, John
- Dickie, Lesley
- Hejcmanova, Pavla
- Jaudt, Uraw
- Jordan, Mike
- Kolter, Lydia
- Kotze, Antoinette
- Leus, Kristin
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Malo Valenzuela, Aurelio Francisco
- Maunder, Mike
- McGowan, Phil
- Morgan, David
- Nishimoto, Kanako
- Rietkerk, Frank
- Schmidt, Christian
- Simmons, Lee
- Schwitzer, Christoph
- Scheres, Geer
- Tomita, Yasumasa
- Traylor-Holzer, Kathy
- van Lint, William
- Vermeer, Jan
- Wharton, Dan
- Zimmerman, Waltraut
- Zippel, Kevin
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Año de publicación: 2011
Volumen: 22
Páginas: 1-6
Tipo: Informe
Resumen
Background: Ex situ populations and activities best serve conservation if they are part of an overall conservation strategy for the species. However, species conservation strategies have not been developed for many threatened species, and many existing strategies do not formally evaluate the appropriateness of ex situ activities. From the field perspective, conservation planners often struggle with how to evaluate if and when ex situ conservation measures should be considered for the species. Similarly, the ex situ community struggles with how to prioritize species for ex situ conservation, as well as how to decide the form that ex situ management should take. The lack of clear guidance and criteria in this evaluation process means that some ex situ activities may be inappropriate or ineffective in contributing to species conservation, and also that some species in urgent need of ex situ activities may escape our attention. The IUCN Technical Guidelines on the Management of Ex Situ Populations for Conservation have the potential to guide both the in situ and ex situ communities in evaluating the appropriate role (if any) that ex situ management can play in the conservation of specific species. The current IUCN guidelines, developed in 2002, provide general guidance but have been suggested by some to be ambiguous enough to allow for contradictory interpretations. Additional expertise and analytical tools are now available that can support this process, suggesting that a revision of the IUCN guidelines would be timely and useful for deciding if and when individuals should be taken from the wild for the purpose of supporting species conservation.