Conifers: Status Survey and Conservation Action PlanIUCN, 1999 - 121 pages Conifers are one of the world's most important resources of timber. If managed wisely and used sustainably, these resources will provide wood for a multitude of purposes, virtually indefinitely. Additional products include resins and their derivatives, and even medicinal extracts--for example taxol now used in the treatment of cancer. Conifers occur on all continents except Antarctica. Of the 630 species, 355 are listed as of conservation concern, with 200, or 25 of species, threatened with extinction. Although exploitation of these resources is as old as civilization, this century has seen a dramatic increase in the exploitation of timber resources. This action plan assess conifer diversity and its threats. It is unique among IUCN's Plant Action Plans so far published, in that it gives the complete global red list of conifers using the 1994 IUCN Red List Categories and criteria. Data is analyzed to identify "conifer hot spots", where conservation should be a priority, and a short-list of threatened species is prioritized. |
Contents
Major threats to conifer survival | 7 |
Conservation Issues | 27 |
Regional Accounts | 40 |
Nueva Galicia Action Plan | 55 |
Southwest Pacific oceanic islands Action Plan | 72 |
Species Accounts | 89 |
Dawn Redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu and W C Cheng | 103 |
IUCN Protected Area Management Categories | 121 |
Common terms and phrases
Abies Abies nebrodensis Acmopyle sahniana Agathis Araucaria area of occupancy arizonica Athrotaxis Australia Caledonia Callitris cedar Cedrus Chamaecyparis Chile China CNPS list Compiled cones Conifer Specialist Group conifer species conifer taxa conifers Conservation Action Plan conservation concern criteria Critically Endangered Cupressaceae Cupressus Cupressus goveniana Dacrydium distribution eastern ecological ecosystem endemic exploitation extinction Farjon Fiji fire Fitzroya cupressoides flora fossil genera genetic diversity genus Giant Sequoia global goveniana guadalupensis habitat Himalayas hot spots islands IUCN Red List IUCN/SSC Juniperus Laub Lebanon logging Lower Risk LRcd LRnt Massif Mexico montane mountains natural Nueva Galicia occur Picea Pinaceae pine Pinus plants Podocarpaceae Podocarpus populations protected areas provenance radiata range regeneration region reserves Royal Botanic Gardens seed seedlings short-listed Sichuan Sierra southern Status Survey Survey and Conservation Taiwan Tasmania taxa taxon threat threatened timber tion torreyana trees vegetation W. C. Cheng Widdringtonia wild source Xizang Zizhiqu Yunnan