Launch of the first Dugong Status Report and Action Plan 13
February 2002 | News story Cartagena, Colombia 13.02.02. IUCN's
Director General, Achim Steiner, and Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Executive
Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
launched a joint publication, Dugong: Status Report and Action
Plans for Countries and Territories, during the seventh special
session of UNEP's Governing Council in Columbia yesterday.
Steiner said that the report provides a practical example of
global collaboration on environmental issues as also shown by
the current Global Ministerial Environmental Forum convening in
Cartagena this week. The report, compiled by Helene Marsh, a
member of the IUCN/SSC Sirenia Specialist Group has been several
years in development and is the first ever global study of the
enigmatic "sea cow". The publication presents a global overview
of the status of the dugong and its management in the many
countries that make up its range. It is hoped the report will
help individual countries de