Newsletter · 2001

Re-introduction News August 2001

Issue No. 20 of Re-introduction News (August 2001), opening with Chairman Dr. Frédéric Launay's report that RSG membership had passed 300 worldwide as the group renewed its section chairs for the new quadrennium.

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What is Re-introduction News?

Re-introduction News is the newsletter of the IUCN SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group (ISSN 1560-3709). It carries news and case reports from the group's regional and taxonomic sections, and several issues concentrate on a single group of animals, such as birds, carnivores, reptiles and amphibians, or primates. This site archives 21 issues of it, from November 1990 to April 2007.

Where does this issue sit in the archive?

Re-introduction News August 2001 is number 18 of 21 in the archive of Re-introduction News on this site, counting from the earliest. The issue before it here is Re-introduction News November 2000. The next is Re-introduction News June 2002.

Who publishes it?

The IUCN SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group (RSG) was founded in 1988 as one of the specialist groups of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. It is now called the Conservation Translocation Specialist Group (CTSG). Its original reintroduction guidelines became official IUCN policy in 1995.

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Give the title, the publisher and the year, for example: Re-introduction News August 2001. IUCN SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group, 2001. The address of this page is https://www.iucn-ctsg.org/project/re-introduction-news-august-2001/.

What else does the archive hold from 2001?

Other 2001 items in the archive are RSG Australasian Newsletter 2001 and RSG Oceania Newsletter 2001.