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(Message started by: Project Officer on Apr 16^th, 2004, 11:40pm)

Title: Saker Falcon and Houbara Bustard
Post by Project Officer on Apr 16^th, 2004, 11:40pm

For members' information.

----- Original Message -----
From: "stubutchart1" <stuart.butchart@birdlife.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 7:10 PM
Subject: [OB] Changing the IUCN Red List status of Saker Falcon and Houbara Bustard

> Revised IUCN Red List categories for Houbara Bustard and Saker
> Falcon: your chance to contribute
>
> BirdLife are currently reviewing the IUCN Red List evaluation for
> Houbara Bustard and Saker Falcon and are considering uplisting Saker
> Falcon to Endangered and Houbara Bustard to Vulnerable.
>
> We have set up a discussion forum on the BirdLife website where the
> arguments and the information upon which they are based are
> summarised, and where you can also post up your own comments on this
> assessment or contribute new information that is relevant to it. Any
> relevant contributions will be explicitly credited in the official
> species accounts on the BirdLife and IUCN Red List websites. Please
> view the topics and post your comments at
>
> http://208.185.149.227/WebX?14@83.8pX1aaM6bbt.1@.2cba2ae0
>
> or email them directly to Nigel Collar, who is leading the review, at
> nigel.collar@birdlife.org
>
> BirdLife will supply the final classification and documentation for
> the 2004 IUCN Red List (which is released in November) very soon, so
> please contribute your comments or information by the end of April.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your input,
>
> Stuart Butchart, Global Species Programme Coordinator, BirdLife
> International
>
> Nigel Collar, Leventis Fellow in Conservation Biology, BirdLife
> International