Skip to main content
IUCN SSC Invertebrate Conservation Committee
IUCN COMMISSION GROUP

IUCN SSC Invertebrate Conservation Committee

project image

Overview and description

Description:
Our work will help to increase the taxonomic diversity represented in the IUCN SSC. The higher number of Red List assessments and new Specialist Groups will help to instigate new conservation actions ...

Our work will help to increase the taxonomic diversity represented in the IUCN SSC. The higher number of Red List assessments and new Specialist Groups will help to instigate new conservation actions for invertebrate species.

Group leadership

Dr Axel HOCHKIRCH
Chair

Axel Hochkirch is Curator for Ecology at the national museum of natural history in Luxembourg and associate professor in the Department of Biogeography at Trier University, Germany. He is an expert in insect biodiversity and conservation genetics, and the author or co-author of > 200 publications dealing with a broad field of biodiversity-related topics. His main interest is invertebrate conservation. 

Axel Hochkirch is Curator for Ecology at the national museum of natural history in Luxembourg and associate professor in the Department of Biogeography at Trier University, Germany. He is an expert in ...