IUCN COMMISSION GROUP
IUCN SSC Pinniped Specialist Group
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Overview and description
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The mission of the Pinniped Specialist Group is to promote awareness regarding conservation threats to pinnipeds worldwide and to actively take a role in ensuring good management practices that ensure ...
Group leadership
Prof Simon GOLDSWORTHY
Red List Authority Coordinator
Prof Goldsworthy has been undertaking research in the field of marine biology for 25 years, specialising in the ecology of marine mammals and seabirds, ecosystem trophodynamics, the ecological…
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Specialist Group work
PSG envisions assessments at the population level for all threatened subspecies of pinnipeds and accompanying action plans for these populations that will serve to improve their status.
Pinnipeds on the IUCN Red List
Complete assessment at the population level of all threatened subspecies.
PSG Annual Report
Learn about PSG’s work and results in 2022.
Previous reports:
PSG Annual Report 2021
PSG Annual Report 2020
PSG Annual Report 2019
PSG Annual Report 2018
At a glance
Official name:
IUCN SSC Pinniped Specialist Group
Associated Commissions: