IUCN Species Survival Commission: Vulture Specialist Group

Newsletter of the Medicinal Plant Specialist Group of the Iucn Species Survival Commission

ISSN 1430-95X 1 August 2004 Revision of the “WHO/IUCN/WWF Guidelines on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants” – Wolfgang Kathe & Alan Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 WHO releases Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP) for medicinal plants – Alan Pierce & Wolfgang Kathe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Sem...

Invasive Specjes Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Colnmission

aliens invasive species specialist Group of the iUCn species survival Commission ISSN : 1173 - 5988 FROM THE NEW CHAIR OF ISSG – PIERO GENOvESI

THE ROlE OF INFORMATION ExCHANGE ANd RESEARCH FOR EFFECTIvE RESPONSES TO bIOlOGICAl INvASIONS M Browne, S Pagad & M De Poorter At the very end of 2008, the European Commission has taken a major step forward to face the problem of biological invasions. In fact, on 3 December 2008 the EC has adopted a Communication presenting policy options for an EU Strategy on Invasive Species. In particular th...

The Nursing Specialist Group

Medical software tools began to emerge during the 1980's, some became known as 'expert systems'. In contrast to conventional software which process data, expert systems process 'knowledge'. For this reason, expert systems are also called ‘Knowledge Based Systems' (KBS). The most well known medical example is MYCIN.' This expert system was developed at Stanford University in 1976 to aid physicia...

Best Practice Guidelines for Surveys and Monitoring of Great Ape Populations, English version

Founded in 1948, IUCN brings together States, government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 1,000 members in all, spread across some 140 countries. As a Union, IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resource...