Tree Conservation Information Service
| Acknowledgements
The World List of Threatened Trees is the principal report from a three year project entitled the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees, generously funded by the Government of the Netherlands. We are most grateful for this financial support, and would like to express our thanks in particular to Ton van der Zon, Gerrie Willems and Felix Hoogveld of the Netherlands Ministry of International Affairs.
The Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project has been undertaken by a team working at UNEP-WCMC in collaboration with SSC Groups and other experts worldwide. The UNEP-WCMC team consisted of Sara Oldfield, Project Leader; Charlotte Lusty, Data Management Officer; Martin Sneary, Information Analyst; Amy MacKinven, Research Assistant and Julie Reay, Project Administrator. Many other staff members at UNEP-WCMC have supported the development of the project and particular thanks are due to Tim Johnson who supervised the project and to Harriet Gillett, Manager of the Threatened Plants Database. Sam Kanyamibwa and Javier Beltran have assisted with translation and communication with experts involved in the project in French and Spanish speaking countries. In addition the following volunteers, temporary staff and students have worked on the project at UNEP-WCMC: Harriet Elson, Alejandro Flamenco-Sandoval, Kevin Holohan, Bill Oates, Liz Porter, Gemma Smith and Simon Reeve.
Charlotte Lusty has compiled the majority of species entries contained within this book and has reviewed the species data received from experts. She designed the standard data collection form incorporating ideas from David Hunt, Susan Iremonger, Valerie Kapos and others at UNEP-WCMC. Martin Sneary has been responsible for the design and development of the Tree Conservation Database from which the species summaries have been produced as direct outputs, with support from Cardinal Consultants. Julie Reay has undertaken the formatting of this document for publication. The species summaries were proof-read by Margaret Deith.
Fifteen consultants, either institutions or individuals, have been involved in the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project, evaluating and reviewing tree species data under contract to UNEP-WCMC. We are grateful for all their work on the project. Joaquina Pires-O'Brien played an important role in coordinating input from experts on the Brazilian flora. Dennis Johnson coordinated the collection of data on palm species drawing on an extensive network of contacts. Collaborative contracts with various national institutions proved to be successful in ensuring linkages with the development of national biodiversity datasets. The contribution from experts in a voluntary capacity has, in addition, been of major significance with, for example, many herbarium botanists generously contributing their time to this tree conservation initiative.
SSC Groups have been closely involved in implementation of the project. Members of the Conifer Specialist Group, Chaired by Aljos Farjon, have held a series of meetings in the UK funded by the project. They have used the standard data collection form to compile information on about 300 conifer species and have decided to continue this procedure for future updating. Members of the Temperate Broadleaved Trees Specialist Group, Chaired by Vicomte Philippe de Spoelberch, have provided data on selected genera and species and have prepared detailed species case studies for publication in Broadleaves, the Group's newsletter. Wendy Strahm has provided liaison between the project and the plant conservation activities of IUCN and we are grateful for her support.
Craig Hilton-Taylor, of the National Botanical Institute (NBI) of South Africa has coordinated the assessment of Southern African trees. To do this he has drawn on the responses of 11 amateur and professional botanists and combined this with information from NBI's Southern African Threatened Plants Database (SARARES) and literature references. This contribution is gratefully appreciated.
The experts listed below have all made invaluable contributions to the project and we are most grateful for the information and expertise they have provided. For the provision of moral support, guidance and encouragement throughout the project we would like to express our particular gratitude to Peter Ashton, Aljos Farjon, William Hawthorne, David Hunt, Jon Lovett, Adrian Newton and Abdou Salam Ouédraogo.
We also acknowledge with gratitude the institutional support provided by leading botanical and forestry institutes. Leiden's Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus and Missouri Botanical Garden have been major sources of taxonomic and conservation status information on tree species of Southeast Asia and Latin America respectively. Links with botanists working in the field have also been facilitated greatly by contact with these two institutions. A wide range of organisations responded to the user needs survey undertaken in the early stages of the project and their information and suggestions were all appreciated.
The Forest Resources Division of FAO has been supportive of the project and a Memorandum of Agreement has been developed between UNEP-WCMC and FAO covering tree species conservation data exchange. The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) has also been involved in the development of the project and we are grateful for the support of these two organisations.
The Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) project has been an invaluable source of information particularly on the uses of tree species. We are grateful for the cooperation with this project particularly through its office at Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands.
The Center for Plant Conservation has generously provided information and advice with regard to trees of North America. The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) kindly provided a dataset of rare trees of California for inclusion in The World List of Threatened Trees.
Information compiled by WCMC for the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants formed an important starting point for the World List of Threatened Trees. Harriet Gillett and Kerry Walter, the editors of the Red List are thanked for their help with the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees Project. The IUCN Red List was compiled in partnership with the following organisations: Nature Conservancy (TNC); National Botanical Institute (NBI), South Africa; Smithsonian Institution; Environment Australia ; Royal Botanic Garden; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and NYBG - The New York Botanical Garden.
For their help in preparing The World List of Threatened Trees, we thank in particular all the following experts who have participated in workshops, provided information and carried out assessments of the conservation status of trees around the world: Tony Abbott, Dennis Adams, Frits Adema, Javed Ahmed, Tania Ammour, Nguyen Hoang Anh, Robert Archer, Alberto Areces-Mallea, Peter Ashton, Aké Assi, Lucia d'Avila, M Tekin Babac, C.R. Babu, Kevin Balkwill, Nguyen Tien Ban, Ninh Khac Ban, Angel Bañares Baudet, Salomao Bandeira, G.M. Barroso, Auriol Batten, David Baum, John Beaman, Henk Beentje, Peter Bellingham, John Benson, Keith Bennett, Dr van der Berg, R. Bernal, Jurgen Blaser, Lynn Bohs, Wolfgang Bopp, Adam Boratynski, F. Borchsenius, Philippe Bouchet, Loutfy Boulos, F.J. Breteler, Alvarez Brito, E. M. Lammerts van Bueren, Ximena Buitrón, Daniel Burke, John Burrows, P. Burrows, Fred Burton, Eduardo Calderon Saenz, Bruce Campbell, A. Carlstrom, Eduardo Carqué Álamo, Susan Carter-Holmes, Freire de Carvalho, T.B. Cavalcanti, Jan Cerovsky, Andre Chanderbali, Miguel Chazaro, Lillian Chua, R.C.K. Chung, Philip Clarke, Margarita Clemente-Muñoz, Elize Cloete, Allen J. Coombes, Luis Corrales, Helen Corrigan, Patricia Craven, Quentin Cronk, Le Trong Cuc, Myriam Cukier, Cristina M.C. Curi Silva, Eduardo Dalcin, Barbara van Dam, Doam Diem, Bob Drummond, Tony Dold, Ali A. Dönmez, J.L. Dowl, Pham Hoai Duc, David Dupuy, Vu Van Dzung, Arthur Ebgret, Sue Edwards, Peter Eddowes, F.B. Essig, Barry Evans, R. Evans, Peter Evers, Aljos Farjon, Estrela Figueiredo, Jon Fjeldsa, Bryan Finnegan, Gennady Firsov, Jacques Florence, S. Fontinha, Enrique Forero, D. Forman, Steve Fourie, M.P. Frankis, David Frodin, D. Fuller, Fuh-Juinn Pan, Washington Galiano-Sanchez, Flavio Bertin Gandara-Mendes, Martin Gardner, Giuseppe Garfi, Demetrio Gaudagnin, C. Gemmill, Justin Gerlach, Coert Geldenhuys, Shahina A. Ghazanfar, Mario González-Espinosa, Mauro Gonzalez, Peter Goodman, J.J. de Granville, Alistair Griffiths, Ana Maria Guilietti, Nimal Gunatilleke, Adil Güner, Norbert Hahn, Stephen Halloy, Clare Hankamer, David Harris, Teresa Hart, William Hawthorne, A. Henderson, Esteban Hernandez-Bermejo, William J. Hess, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Nick Hodgetts, Colin Hughes, Jonathan Hughes, David Hunt, Dang Huy Huynh, Pierre Ibisch, R. Jardim, Jim Jarvis, Jose Joaquim Campos, Peter Moller Jørgensen, Bob Johns, David Johnson, Dennis Johnson, Piet C. de Jong, Edith Kabesiime, Kees Kalkman, Martinus de Kam, Markku Kanninen, Anthony B. Katende, Phan Ke Loc, Ronald Keay, Shirley Keel, Daniel Kelly, Michael Kessler, Paul Kessler, Le Dinh Kha, Timothy Killeen, Yong Shik Kim, Naomi Kingston, K.M. Kochumenn, Herta Kolberg, Patricia Koleff, Jan de Koning, J.-N. Labat, Peter J. de Lange, Severinn M. Ten Houte de Lange, Antonio Lara, David de Laubenfels, J. Lejoly, Jinxing Lin, Silvia Llamozas, Jon Lovett, Janell Loving, Pete Lowry, Jose Luis Vivero, Domingo Madulid, Robert Magill, Colleen Mannheimer, Vongxay Manivong, Francisco Manuel Fernandes, Alfred Maroyi, Manuel Marrero, Nina Marshall, A. Mauchamp, Ruud van der Meijden, Wim Meijer, Brien Meilleur, Nico Mentik, Jean Yves Meyer, Detlev Metzing, Ndjele Miandi-Bungi, David Middleton, Tony Miller, Martín Mitré, Johanis P. Mogea, Norma M. Molinyawe, Brian Molloy, Sanjay Molur, Alex Montgomery, Dora E. Mora de Retana, S. Moraes, C. Moya, Tom Müller, Pugazhendhi Murugaiyan, Patrick Muthoka, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Dominique N'Sosso, Carlos Navarra Pereira, Cyril H. Nelson-Sutherland, Adrian Newton, Geoff Nichols, Tony Nikolic, Dr Ngamusa, Nguyen Hoang Nghia, Chu Tuan Nha, Kevin Nixon, L. Noblick, Hans Nooteboom, Michael Oates, Jeff Odera, Hideaki Ohba, Jonathan C. Okafor, Salmon Okelo Achieng', Dr Ola-Adams, Abdou-Salam Ouédraogo, Garth Owen-Smith, Angeles Padilla, Chris Page, Wayne Page, Fuh-Juinn Pan, Caroline Pannell, Gilberto Pedralli, Tchouto Peguy, A.L. Peixoto, T.D. Pennington, J.P. Pereira Carauta, Oliver Phillips, Patrick S.M. Phiri, Nguyen Thanh Phong, Tran Lien Phong, Christian Pilegaard Hansen, Joaquina Pires-O'Brien, Derek Pomeroy, Darién E. Prado, H.J. Quero, Neptali Ramírez-Marcial, Tony Rebelo, Fay Robertson, Maricela Rodriguez Acosta, W.A. Rodrigues, Cathy Rogers, Renaat van Rompaey, J. Rosseel, John Rourke, Jens Rowher, Keith Rushforth, Mark Sandiford, L.G. Saw, George Schatz, Nico Schellevis, Peter Schmidt, Klaus Schmitt, Jochem Schneemann, Chris Schurmann, Robert Scott-Shaw, Kade Sidiyasa, N.M.F. Silva, Philippe de Spoelberch, J.S. Siemonsma, Stella Simiyu, G. Sita, Tonny Soehartono, Nicholas C. Songwe, Marc Sosef, Stephen A. Spongberg, F. Stauffer, Guy Sternberg, Wendy Strahm, Anukriti Sud, Weibang Sun, Cao Van Sung, Terry Sutherland, Marianne Syrylak-Sandison, James Taplin, Philip Thomas, Lex Thomson, Mats Thulin, Jonathan Timberlake, Duong Thi To, Roseli B. Torres, Piers Trehane, Thai Van Trung, Nguyen Van Truong, Allan Tye, Christopher Uhl, Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, Johan van Valkenburg, Israel Vargas, Nigel Varty, A.M.S. Vaz, Nohemy Elizabeth Ventura-Centeno, Carl Vernon, Carlos Villamil, J.L. Vivero, Andrew Vovides, Harrie Vreeman, Steve Waldren, Alistair Watt, Anna Weitzman, Pamela Wellner, Peter van Welzen, Marga Werkhoven, A. Whistler, Lee White, Martin Wiggington, Win de Wilde, Gary Wiles, Claire Williams, Braam van Wyk, Tetsukazu Yahara, Nelson Zamora, Elsa Zardini, James Zarruchi, Dr Zobeiry and S. Zona.
We record with great sadness that Salmon Okelo Achieng' was tragically killed during the time he was collecting data on the conservation status of endemic trees of Kenya. He was an enthusiastic field worker and contributed considerably to the discussions at the regional workshop for the project held in Harare in July, 1996, the first time he travelled out of his home country. We will remember Salmon with gratitude for his contribution to African tree conservation.
We are grateful for the help extended by the staff of the libraries at UNEP-WCMC, the Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University, and at the Cory Lodge, Cambridge Botanic Gardens.
Tony Miller kindly supplied the cover photograph used in the cover design.
Additional financial support for publication of this book by the Owen Family Trust is gratefully acknowledged. |
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