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IUCN SSG Human Dimensions Working Group Online Workshop

28/7/2023

Working Group Update | Human Dimensions

As a follow-up to our Crash Course in Human Dimensions of Shark Conservation. We ran a 4-day free webinar in June 2023 as part of the workshop series. The following topics were covered:

Understanding trade for sharks, rays, and chimaeras and their products;
Gathering and using local ecological knowledge;
Using citizen science for conservation.

Crash Course in the Human Dimensions of Shark Conservation

25/7/2021

Working Group Update | Human Dimensions

We welcome you to the first online webinar series organised by the SSG Human Dimensions Working Group (HDWG), "Crash Course in the Human Dimensions of Shark Conservation"

This webinar explored:

Human dimensions: what, why and how?;
Overview of social science research methods for shark conservation;
Understanding the socio-ecological situation;
Designing Interventions & Changing Behaviour; and
Future directions for Human Dimensions of Shark Conservation

Putting a face to a name

19/4/2021

Description of a new species of skate hitherto known only from egg cases described over 100 years ago

Written by Simon Weigmann

Chair | Integrative Taxonomy Working Group | IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group (SSG)
Associate Scientist | Center of Natural History | University of Hamburg
Chair | German Elasmobranch Society (D.E.G.)

Bathyraja arctowskii is an exceptional case in skate taxonomy as it was named by Dollo in 1904 based only on three empty egg capsules of tiny size from off the Antarctic Peninsula. The species as such remained undescribed for more than 100 years. The reason was the lack of specimens that could be assigned to Dollo's small egg capsules.

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