[Odonata-l] lists of Odonata of special concern

[Cannings, Rob RBCM:EX]

Hi Dennis: The annotated checklist of the Odonata of Canada that Paul
Catling, Paul Brunelle and I recently published in Bulletin of American
Odonatology has a table listing all the Canadian species and their
GENERAL STATUS RANKS, both for Canada as a whole and for each of the
provinces and territories. For detailed subnational ranks (S ranks)
based on local status in provinces or states it is best if you go to the
NatureServe site (http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/
<http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/> ) ...you probably know
this....and go to "Local Programs", which will get you to provincial and
state sites (e.g. the dragonfly section in the BC site is
http://srmapps.gov.bc.ca/apps/eswp/search.do) that give these ranks for
species and other details on species of conservation concern. 
 
There are NatureServe sites for many Latin American countries, but I
don't know if they have anything on the conservation status of
dragonflies.
 
Cheers,
 
Rob
 
Dr. Robert A. Cannings

Curator of Entomology

Royal British Columbia Museum

675 Belleville Street

Victoria, BC, Canada   V8W 9W2

Phone: (250) 356-8242. Fax: (250) 356-8197

E-mail: rcannings at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

 
 
 
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[mailto:odonata-l-bounces at listhost.ups.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Paulson
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:05 PM
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Subject: [Odonata-l] lists of Odonata of special concern


Hello, all. 


The IUCN has launched a project to assess the conservation status of
1500 species of Odonata (just over a fourth of the species!) randomly
chosen from the world list to go along with the assessments that have
already been done for many species known to be of conservation concern.

I am involved in doing these assessments for 213 species of North and
Middle America (Canada to Panama and the West Indies), and I would like
to include information on species that are of local conservation concern
even if not so in their entire range. So one of the forms of data I
would like to have available is the status of odonate species in any of
the Canadian provinces or US states in which such lists of species have
been generated. I know of some of them but certainly not all, and if any
of them are published on a website, for example, I would much appreciate
knowing the address of that website. Or if there is a regional list
being kept by any government agency or NGO, I would appreciate knowing
about that. I have not heard of any such lists available for any region
south of the US border, but if there are for any Latin American or West
Indian countries, I would very much like to know about those as well.

Many thanks.

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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