William Tang and Ronald D. Cave recently published a paper detailing recent advances in the biological control of cycad aulacaspis scale. The paper was published in the March 2016 issue of Encephalartos, The Journal of The Cycad Society of South Africa and is reproduced here with permission.
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2014 Report
Species: 2014 Annual Report of the Species Survival Commission and the Global Species Programme is now available online.
The Cycad Specialist Group Report is also reproduced here.
2014 was a busy year for cycad conservation. Thank you to all the experts working around the world to help these imperiled plants.
CSG Meeting at Cycad 2015
The CSG will be having its next meeting immediately prior to Cycad 2015, the 10th International Conference on Cycad Biology which will be hosted in Medellín, Colombia. The CSG meeting will take place on August 15th and 16th (2015) and will include a Red Listing Workshop to update the conservation status of cycads for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The Red Listing Workshop is supported by a grant from The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.
CSG Programme Office hosted at Montgomery Botanical Center
Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) has been designated as the host of the Programme Office for the Cycad Specialist Group (CSG).
Under a partnership with the IUCN Species Survival Commission, MBC will:
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CSG Membership Updated
The 2015 Membership list for the Cycad Specialist Group has now been published.
New Website for Cycad Specialist Group
Welcome to IUCN / SSC Cycad Specialist Group’s new website!
In 2015, the CSG will undertake a major update to the conservation status of cycads for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A generous grant for this work was recently obtained through the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.
To support and broaden this initiative, this new website will help achieve CSG objectives in these ways: