The SSG’s ten year global Red List programme to assess the status of all sharks, rays and chimaeras has been conducted through a series of regional and thematic Red List workshops.

November 2010 Red List Training Workshop
Galway, Ireland
Read press release
Introduction to the Red List process - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (zip files)
Summary Evaluation Criteria (pdf)
IUCN SSG Red List Threats and Conservation Action: How to make the correct selection (ppt)
Threats and Classification Scheme (pdf)
IUCN Species Information Service (SIS): What is it? (zip file here)
SIS Training Exercises for Red Listing Sharks (pdf)

June 2010 'Not Evaluated Species'
Cairns, Australia - contact Peter Kyne
Read press release

July 2007 Asia-Northwest Pacific
Batangas, Philippines

February 2007 Pelagic sharks and rays
Abingdon, UK - contact Nick Dulvy
(read Aquatic Conservation paper, Lenfest overview and Press release)

July 2006 Expert Panel Review
Newbury, UK - contact Sarah Fowler

June 2006 West Africa
Dakar, Senegal

February 2006 Northeast Atlantic
Peterborough, UK - contact Sarah Fowler
(read report and press release)

March 2005 Expert Panel Review
Newbury, UK- contact Sarah Fowler

September 2004 Batoids (skates and rays)
Cape Town, South Africa - contact Peter Kyne
(read global batoid report)

June 2004 North and Central America
Florida, USA
(read status report)

December 2003 Deepsea Chondrichthyans
Queenstown, New Zealand - contact Peter Kyne
Held in conjunction with DeepSea 2003 and co-sponsored by FAO and DEFRA
(read SSG deepsea publications)

October 2003 Mediterranean Sea
San Marino
Convened jointly with the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
(read IUCN overview)

September 2003 Subequatorial Africa
Durban, South Africa

June 2003 South America
Manaus, Brazil

March 2003 Australia and Oceania
Queensland, Australia
(read report)