Conservation Planning Specialist Group
South Asia (CPSG SA)

CPSG South Asia was formed in 1999. At that time CPSG, India, which was formed in 1991 which provided a model for all the CPSG networks the world over, had been in existence for 8 years.

Objectives of CPSG, South Asia

  • To expand the scope of the Mission of the Conservation Planning Specialist Group by promoting its policies, philosophy, processes and products in South Asia.
  • To highlight the link between zoo and field based activities in conservation, e.g. to promote the scientific methods of holistic, intensive, interactive conservation management in South Asia.
  • To generate interest in CAMP, PHVA, Conservation Planning, Zoo Futures, Zoo Master Planning and Facilitator workshops and where desirable and appropriate conduct them with the help of CPSG, SSC
  • To create a regional conservation identity by bringing together conservation specialists of the South Asian region.
  • To identify people and projects for information of the SSC taxon based specialist groups.
  • To "engineer" a Regional Zoo Directors Association for South Asia to represent the zoos of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan in CPSG and World Zoo Organisation.

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Wonder Gecko Conservation Plan: The Arabian Wonder Gecko Conservation Planning Workshop

The first Wonder Gecko Conservation Action Planning workshop was held on 13th – 14th December 2017 in Abu Dhab and involved stakeholders from the various UAE emirates. The principle aim of this workshop is to assemble all the concerned agencies and experts on the Wonder Gecko to conduct a workshop at a national level and draft a Conservation Plan that will guide conservation activities of the species over several years. The workshop was attended by 40 people and facilitated by Dr. Sanjay Molur of the Conservation Planning Specialist Group - South Asia Regional Resource Centre. The IUCN Red List assessment of the species status in the UAE set the tone for the workshop.

Objectives:

  1. Develop a conservation action plan for the Arabian population of the Wonder Gecko.

Activities:

  1. Network all experts in the UAE.
  2. Compile baseline information from literature and experts.
  3. Conservation Planning workshop conducted in Abu Dhabi.
  4. Red List assessment of the Arabian Wonder Gecko.
  5. Wonder Gecko Action Plan Report.

Partners: Conservation Planning Specialist Group - South Asia, Environment Agency Abu Dhabi

PI: Pritpal Soorae, Sanjay Molur

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The seasonal stream Crinum: Development of a conservation plan for the Malabar River Lily (Crinum malabaricum)

Objectives:

  1. Search for the Critically Endangered Crinum malabaricum plant.
  2. Identify and map the distribution of the species and record threats.


Activities:

  1. Contacted local botanists for information.
  2. Visited the type locality and other locations.
  3. Contacted the government college for volunteers.
  4. Visited the Malabar Botanic Gardens and met with officials.

Results:

  1. Identified healthy populations of the species in the type locality and three new localities.
  2. Developed a monitoring protocol with students of Government College, Kasargode.
  3. Built a network of interested botanists, students and individual landowners interested in the species.
  4. Collaborations between various institutes initiated for future conservation action.

Partners:
Freshwater Plant Specialist Group - Conservation Planning Specialist Group, South Asia.

PI: Richard Lansdowne, Sanjay Molur

Risk Assessment on South Asian Theraposid Spiders: IUCN South Asian Theraphosid Spider Assessments

Objectives:

  1. Compile information on South Asian theraphosid spiders for risk assessments.


Plans:

  1. Create theraphosid spider species list for all South Asian countries.
  2. Compile information on species from literature.
  3. Compile new information for not assessed species.
  4. Update information for already assessed species.
  5. Compile distribution data and map localities and polygons.

Progress:

  1. Compilation ongoing.

Partners: Conservation Planning Specialist Group, South Asia, South Asian Invertebrate Specialist Group, IUCN, Invertebrate Conservation Subcommittee.

PI: B.A. Daniel, Sanjay Molur

  

Vertebrate Scoping Workshop: Himachal Pradesh Vertebrate Conservation Planning

Objectives:

  1. Identify and link all vertebrate experts of the state.
  2. Develop a complete checklist of vertebrates of the state.
  3. Develop an existing knowledge base for an eventual action plan.

Plans:

  1. Discussions with the Himachal Forest Department Executives.
  2. Initiate networking with experts and forest department personnel.
  3. Prepare checklists from literature and expert knowledge.
  4. Develop maps.

Progress:

  1. Workshop organized for scoping the status of vertebrate knowledge in the state.
  2. Checklists discussed and finalized.
  3. Working groups formed for future actions.
  4. Reports to be published after feedback from participants and forest department.

Partners:

Himachal Pradesh Forest Department, Conservation Planning Specialist Group - South Asia.

PI: Sanjay Molur

Risk Assessment of South Asian Reptiles: IUCN South Asian Reptile Assessments

Objectives:

  1. Compile information on South Asian reptiles other than the peninsular India endemics for risk assessments.

Plans:

  1. Create reptile species list for all South Asian countries.
  2. Compile information on species from literature.
  3. Compile new information for not assessed species.
  4. Update information for already assessed species.
  5. Compile a list of national and regional reptile experts.
  6. Compile distribution data and map localities and polygons.
  7. Compile distribution data and map localities and polygons.

Progress:

  1. Compilations for endemics of Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh completed.
  2. Some species information entered into the Species Information System database of IUCN Red List.
  3. Expert lists for Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh completed.
  4. Maps for reptiles of Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh completed.
  5. Compilations ongoing for remaining species from India and Sri Lanka.

Partners:

Conservation Planning Specialist Group - South Asia, IUCN, Conservation International's Biodiversity Assessment Unit

PI: Neil Cox, Sanjay Molur

Species Conservation Plans (PHVA Reports)

Jnawali, S.R., K. Leus, S. Molur, A. Glatston & S. Walker (Editors) (2012). Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens). Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) and Species Con-servation Strategy (SCS) Workshop Report. National Trust for Nature Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group and Zoo Outreach Organization, Coimbatore, India, 66pp.
Rao, R.J., D. Basu, S.M. Hasan, B.B. Sharma, S. Molur, S. Walker (Editors) (1995). Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (P.H.V.A.) workshop report for Gharial. Zoo Outreach Organisation/CBSG, India, Coimbatore, 99pp.
Ashraf, N.V.K., R. Chellam, S. Molur, D. Sharma and S. Walker (Editors). (1995). Population & Habitat Viability Assessment (P.H.V.A. ) and Global Animal Survival Plan Workshops for Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo persica), Baroda, 1993. Zoo Outreach Organisation/CBSG, India, Coimbatore, India, 113pp.
Walker, S. (1994). Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (P.H.V.A) workshp for Manipur Brow-Antlered Deer (Cervus eldi eldi) Locally known as Sangai, Mysore, 1992. Zoo Outreach Organisation/CBSG, India, 80pp.
Molur, S., S. Walker, A. Islam, P. Miller, C. Srinivasuly, P.O. Nameer, B.A.Daniel and L. Ravikumar (Editors) (2005). Conservation of Western Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock hoolock hoolock) in India and Bangladesh. Zoo Outreach Organisation/CBSG-South Asia, Coimbatore, India, 132pp.
Molur, S., R. Sukumar, U. Seal and S. Walker (Editors) (1995). Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (P.H.V.A.) workshop report for Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros Jaldapara, 1993. Zoo Outreach Organisation/CBSG, India, Coimbatore, India, 85pp.
Kumar, A., S. Molur and S. Walker (1995). Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (P.H.V.A.) workshop for Lion-tailed Macaque (Macaca silenus), Madras, 1993. Zoo Outreach Organisation/CBSG, India, Coimbatore, India, 110pp.

Multiple species risk assessment (CAMP Reports)

Angiosperms
Molur, S. and S. Walker (Editors) (2001). Report of the Conservation Assessment and Management Plan Workshop for Non Timber Forest Products of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 81pp.
Molur, S. and S. Walker (Editors) (1998). Conservation Assessment and Management Plan Workshop for Non Timber Forest Products of Madhya Pradesh. Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 100pp.
Molur, S. and S. Walker (eds.) (1998). Conservation Assessment and Management Plan for selected species of Medicinal Plants of Sourthern India”, Zoo Outreach Organisation, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, India, Coimbatore. 142pp.
Kumar, C.S., B.V. Shetty, S.S.R. Bennet, T.A. Rao, S. Molur and S. Walker (Editors) (2001). CAMP Workshop Report for Endemic Orchids of the Western Ghats. WILD, CBSG India and Zoo Outreach Organisation, Coimbatore, India, 195pp.
Rao, T.A., S. Molur and S. Walker (eds.) (1998). Report of the Workshop “Conservation Assessment and Management Plan for Mangroves of India” (BCPP-Endangered Species Project), Zoo Outreach Organisation, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, India, Coimbatore, India. 106pp.
Molur, S. and S. Walker (eds.) (1998). Report of the Workshop “Conservation Assessment and Management Plan for selected medicinal plant species of northern, northeastern and central India” (BCPP-Endangered Species Project), Zoo Outreach Organisation, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, India, Coimbatore, India. 62pp.
Freshwater Biodiversity
Molur, S., K.G. Smith, B.A. Daniel and W.R.T. Darwall (Compilers). (2011). The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Western Ghats, India. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, and Coimbatore, India: Zoo Outreach Organisation.
Molur, S., and S. Walker (eds.) (1998). Report of the Workshop “Conservation Assessment and Management Plan for Freshwater Fishes of India”, Zoo Outreach Organisation, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, India, Coimbatore, India. 156pp.
Molur, S. and S. Walker (eds.) (1998). Report of the Workshop “Conservation Assessment and Management Plan for Amphibians of India” (BCPP-Endangered Species Project), Zoo Outreach Organisation, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, India, Coimbatore, India. 102pp.
Allen, D.J., S. Molur and B.A. Daniel (Compilers). (2010). The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Eastern Himalaya. Cambridge, UK and Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, and Coimbatore, India: Zoo Outreach Organisation.
de Silva, A., S. Molur and S. Walker (Editors) (2000). CAMP Report for Amphibians and selected taxa of Reptiles of Sri Lanka. Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, Sri Lanka, 212pp.
Invertebrates
Daniel, B. A., S. Molur and S. Walker (eds.) (1998). Report of the Workshop “Conservation Assessment and Management Plan for selected soil invertebrates of southern India” (BCPP-Endangered Species Project), Zoo Outreach Organisation, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, India, Coimbatore, India. 70pp.
Mammals
Molur, S., C. Srinivasulu, S. Walker, P.O. Nameer and L. Ravikumar (2005). Status of South Asian Non-volant Small Mammals: Conservation Assessment and Mangement Plan (C.A.M.P.) workshop Report. Zoo Outreach Organisation/CBSG-South Asia, Coimbatore, India, 618pp.
Molur, S., D. Brandon-Jones, W. Dittus, A. Eudey, A. Kumar, M. Singh, M.M. Feeroz, M. Chalise, P. Priya and S. Walker (2003). Status of South Asian Primates: Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (C.A.M.P.) Workshop Report, 2003. Zoo Outreach Organisation/ CBSG South Asia, Coimbatore, India, vii+1432pp.
Molur, S., P.O. Nameer and S. Walker (eds.) (1998). Report of the Workshop “Conservation Assessment and Management Plan for Mammals of India” (BCPP-Endangered Species Project), Zoo Outreach Organisation, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, India, Coimbatore, India. 176pp.
Sheikh, K.M. and S. Molur (2004) (Eds.). Status and Red List of Pakistan’s Mammals. Based on the Conservation Assessment and Management Plan. 312pp. IUCN Pakistan.
Molur, S., G. Marimuthu, C. Srinivasulu, S. Mistry, A.M. Hutson, P.J.J. Bates, S. Walker, K. Padma Priya and A.R. Binu Priya (Editors) (2002). Status of South Asian Chiroptera: Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (C.A.M.P.) Workshop Report, 2002. Zoo Outreach Organisation, CBSG South Asia and Wild, Coimbatore, India, vii+141pp+CD-Rom.
Reptiles
Srinivasulu, C., B. Srinivasulu and S. Molur (Compilers). (2014). The Status and Distribution of Reptiles in the Western Ghats, India. Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP). Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, viii+148pp.
Molur, S., P.O. Nameer and S. Walker (eds.) (1998). Report of the Workshop “Conservation Assessment and Management Plan for reptiles of India” (BCPP-Endangered Species Project), Zoo Outreach Organisation, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, India, Coimbatore, India. 175pp.
de Silva, A., S. Molur and S. Walker (Editors) (2000). CAMP Report for Amphibians and selected taxa of Reptiles of Sri Lanka. Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, Sri Lanka, 212pp.