WORLD HORNBILL NETWORK
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World Hornbill Network: Contact details This page will provide contact details for individuals and organisations involved with or interested in hornbills of the world. Details are not yet available as the contact database is still under construction. In order to compile such a database, we need your details. We will have a form available for you to fill in from you web browser in the near future. In the meantime, we would really appreciate it if you could your details such as names, contact address, email address, your interests in hornbills, your expertise and anything else that you may feel is relevant in a contact database. We appeal to all field researchers, conservationists, aviculturalists, scholars and anyone with an interest in hornbills to participate in this collection of contact details for a World Hornbill Network contact database The IUCN Hornbill Specialist Group, chaired by Wendy Worth, Curator of Birds from Zoo Atlanta, is preparing to develop a Global Action Plan. A Global Action Plan identifies and sets priorities for projects and programs directed at conservation of a particular animal group. The purpose of the Action Plan is to increase awareness and to stimulate funding. To create a useful and comprehensive plan, we solicit participation from Hornbill specialists, but also from conservation biologists, ecologists, wildlife officials and others interested in Hornbills or the role of Hornbills in wild habitats. We would like to encourage forwarding of this message to appropriate e:mail lists and also forwarding of hard copy to those without access to e:mail. Creation of the Action Plan will involve several steps. First, we need volunteers to review and update the Hornbill Specialist Group species accounts. Let us know species for which you have recent information and we will send those accounts to you for review and input. Second, we need to collect 'action items' -- descriptions or proposals for research that needs to be done, education programs, surveys, projects -- relevant to the conservation of hornbills. These can be very general or very specific in scope. As we develop a project database, we will circulate this to Specialist Group members and others for review. Our goal is to create a draft which can be presented for discussion at the International Hornbill Symposium in Singapore, next May. Please contact me for further information or to volunteer to participate in the process. Christine Sheppard Most recent revision: April 2004 |
