IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group (SSG)
​Workshop Timeline

A trip down memory lane in the history of workshops...

1st Decade | 1991 – 2000

25 February - 1 March 1991
First IUCN Shark Specialist Group (SSG) Meeting
International Conference on Shark Biology and Conservation | Sharks Down Under
Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia​
August 15 – 18, 1995
Study Group on Elasmobranch Fishes
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
​Copenhagen, Denmark
April 29 – May 1, 1996
​IUCN Red List Workshop
Zoological Society of London, London, UK
June 1996
Shark Specialist Group meeting
During the 12th American Elasmobranch Society (AES) annual meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

August 3, 1996
Shark Specialist Group meeting
’Sharks and Man: Worldwide Management and Conservation’
​Country Comfort Lemmons Hotel
Part of the the World Fisheries Congress | July 28 – August 2, 1996
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
June 26 – July 2, 1997
Shark Specialist Group meeting
During 13th American Elasmobranch Society (AES) annual meeting
Seattle, Washington, USA

July 7 – 10, 1997
Shark Specialist Group meeting
Darwin Project workshop
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
November 3 – 8, 1997
Shark Specialist Group meeting
5th Into-Pacific Fish Conference
Noumea, New Caledonia

2nd Decade | 2001 – 2010

March 7 – 9, 2003
​IUCN SSG Red List Workshop | Australia and Oceania
North Stradbroke Island, Australia
June 23 – 25, 2003
​IUCN SSG Red List Workshop | South America
Manaus, Brazil
Part of the 19th American Elasmobranch Society Meeting | June 26 – July 1, 2003
September 2003
​IUCN SSG Red List Workshop | Sub-Equatorial Africa
Durban, South Africa
September 29 – October 1, 2003
​IUCN SSG Red List Workshop | Mediterranean Sea 
San Marino
Convened jointly with the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
(read IUCN overview)
November 27 – 29, 2003
​Deepsea Chondrichthyan Workshop
Dunedin, New Zealand
Held in conjunction with DeepSea 2003 and co-sponsored by FAO and DEFRA
June 15 – 18, 2004
​IUCN SSG Red List Workshop | North and Central America
Sarasota, Florida, USA
September 6 – 10, 2004
​IUCN SSG Red List Workshop | Batoid (skates and rays)
Cape Town, South Africa
March 2005
​Expert Panel Review
Newbury, UK
February 2006
​Northeast Atlantic Workshop
Peterborough, UK
June 2006
​West Africa Workshop
Dakar, Senegal
July 2006
​Expert Panel Review
Newbury, UK
February 19 – 23, 2007
​IUCN SSG Red List Workshop | Pelagic Species 
Tubney House, University of Oxford, UK
July 2007
​Asia-Northwest Pacific Workshop
Batangas, Philippines
June 2010
​Not Evaluated Species Workshop
Cairns, Australia
November 2010
IUCN ​Red List of Threatened Species Training Workshop
Galway, Ireland

3rd Decade | 2011 – 2020

21-24 May 2012
Sawfish Conservation Strategy Workshop
​London, United Kingdom
March 2014
​Northeast Pacific Workshop
Seattle, Washington, USA
9-12 June 2014
​Devil and Manta Ray Conservation Strategy Workshop
Durban, South Africa
March 2015
​Australia and Oceania Workshop
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
20-23 June 2016
Canary Islands Angelshark Action Plan Workshop
Gran Canaria, Spain
​Press Release
February 2017
​Arabian Seas and Adjacent Region Workshop
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
​Read Report
July 2017
​New Zealand and Oceania Workshop
Auckland, New Zealand
April 2018
Sub-Equatorial Africa Global Shark Trends Workshop
Grahamstown, South Africa
June 2018
​Chimaeras Global Shark Trends Workshop 
João Pessoa, Brazil
June 2018
​Atlantic South America Global Shark Trends Workshop 
João Pessoa, Brazil
November 2018
​Pelagic Sharks Global Shark Trends Workshop 
Dallas, USA
February 2019
​Pacific South America Global Shark Trends Workshop
Cali, Colombia
March 25 – 27, 2019
Mediterranean Angel Sharks: Regional Action Plan
National Institute of Sciences and Technologies of the Sea (INSTM) in Salammbô, Tunisia
June 2019
​Northwest and Western Central Atlantic Global Shark Trends Workshop
Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas
September 2019
Northwest Pacific Global Shark Trends Workshop
Nagasaki, Japan
November 2019
​Deepwater Global Shark Trends Workshop
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
November 4 – 7, 2019
Mediterranean Shark and Ray Conservation Meeting
Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain

4th Decade | 2021 – 2030

November 16–19, 2021
​Sawfish Red List Assessments Update Workshop
Global, Online
April 4–8, 2022
ISRA Workshop - Delineating ISRA criteria
Gland, Switzerland
April 12, 2022
The IUCN Green Status of Species Webinar
Global, Online
October 3 – 7, 2022
ISRA Workshop - Central & South American Pacific
​​Bogota, Colombia
October 18 ​– 29, 2022
Global Report Writing Retreat Workshop
​Valencia, Spain
March 18 ​– 20, 2023
Global Report Writing Retreat Workshop
​​Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
May 8 ​– 12, 2023
ISRA Workshop - Mediterranean and Black Sea
​Thessaloniki, Greece
September 11 ​– 15, 2023
ISRA Workshop - Western Indian Ocean
Durban, South Africa
November 25 – 27, 2023
Global Report Editing Workshop
Auckland, New Zealand
January 22 ​– 26, 2024
ISRA Workshop - Asia
Bali, Indonesia
May 27 – 29, 2024
ISRA Workshop - Polar Waters
​Tirana, Albania
August 26 – 30, 2024
ISRA Workshop - New Zealand and Pacific Islands
Nada, Fiji
January 13 – 17, 2025
ISRA Workshop - South American Atlantic and Inland Waters
​Montevideo, Uruguay
UPCOMING
May 17 – 21, 2025
ISRA Workshop - European Atlantic
Den Haag, The Netherlands
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