International partnership launched to promote conservation
efforts for threatened marine species 29 October 2003 | News
story IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland, 29
October 2003. IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC) is
joining forces with the Perry Institute for Marine Science to
help protect the world's oceans through research, and the
development and promotion of conservation efforts for threatened
marine species. As the threat of extinction increases for a wide
variety of marine species, the alliance between the Florida-
based Perry Institute and the IUCN/SSC will support critical
scientific efforts to identify threatened marine species
worldwide. Prioritization for conservation of these species is
promoted through SSC's Specialist Groups and other conservation
organizations. Currently, the SSC marine Specialist Groups focus
on cetaceans, seals, sirenians, marine turtles, sharks, groupers
and wrasses, and coral reef and Caribbean fishes. Threatened
marine species, identified by these