Invasive Species Specialist Group

1. Group No- 01
Student ID: 130501, 130502, 130504, 130505
Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline
Khulna University

2. What is ISSG?
Invasive Species Specialist Group
A global network of scientific and policy experts on
invasive species.
Auspices under SSC (Species Survival Commission) of
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
Establishment in 1994.
Organizational setup
Chair: Dr. Piero Genovesi
Programme Officer: Riccardo Scalera
Manager: Shyama Pagad

3. Membership
196 global core members, from 40 countries.
2000 conservation practitioners and experts who
contribute to its work.

4. Mission
To lessen threats to natural ecosystems and the native
species they have.
To find out approaches to prevent, control or extirpate
them.
To increase awareness about invasive species.
Function
To expedite the exchange of information and knowledge
around the globe.

5. Activity
ISSG
Providing technical
and policy advice
Exchange of Information
and networking
 Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD)
 Ramsar Convention
 International Maritime Organization
(IMO)
 To national and regional agencies
 Aliens (A biannual newsletter)
 GISD (Global Invasive Species
Database)
 IBIS (Island Biodiversity and
Invasive Species Database)
 Aliens-L (a list server)

6. Publications
Aliens:
A biannual newsletter.
Publishes feature articles about invasive species.

7. GISD (Global Invasive Species Database)
An online, freely available premier resource of
information on invasive species, their ecology, spread,
management and impacts.
IBIS (Island Biodiversity and Invasive Species Database)
Focused on the impacts of invasive species on native
species and ecosystems on islands.
Aliens-L
Allows users to freely seek and share information on
invasive species and related issues.
Networking

8. Activity in Bangladesh
There is no direct activity of ISSG in Bangladesh but
in the first international conference (February 2001,
Auckland, New Zealand) held by ISSG, they included
some invasive plant species on the outline “Alien
invasive plants in Bangladesh and their impacts on
the ecosystem”.
This study was run by ISSG in collaboration with M.
K. Hossain (Institute of Forestry and Environmental
Sciences) and M. K. Pasha (Department of Botany) at
Chittagong University.

9. Invasive species can lead to changes in the structure and
composition of ecosystems, leading to significant
detrimental impacts to the ecosystem services, affecting
the economy and human wellbeing.
Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) has undertaken
many initiatives to make people aware of the invasive
species and to find out ways to control or remove those
species.
Summary