IUCN COMMISSION GROUP

IUCN SSC Mediterranean Plant Specialist Group

Overview and description

Description:

This Specialist Group (MPSG) was formed in 1995 as the Mediterranean Islands Plant Specialist Group and currently includes some thirty members.

Group leadership

Dr Bertrand DE MONTMOLLIN

Co-Chair

Dr Salvatore PASTA

Co-Chair

I am a botanist and a researcher of the Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). My main fields of interest are floristics, plant conservation, alien plant ecology and management, vegetation science, forest ecology, landscape history and ecology, and ethnobotany.

Dr Errol VELA

Red List Authority Coordinator

PhD in vegetal ecology on biodiversity of Mediterranean grasslands. 5 years experience in environmental valuation in France. Teaching in botany, ecology and expertise. Research in floristics, taxonomy, biogeography and evolution.

More about the Specialist Group

The Mediterranean Plant Specialist Group (MPSG) has as its objectives evaluate and monitor changes in Mediterranean island plant diversity; to establish, co-ordinate and implement conservation Action Plans; and to promote sustainable conservation of plants and their habitats among decision-makers and the public. The work of the MPSG is part of IUCN’s activities in the Mediterranean.

Specialist Group work

Aims to Implementation of field conservation projects for Critically Endangered Mediterranean plants with authorities and local populations, raising the plant conservation profile in the Mediterranean and raising awareness of the public and stakeholders at regional, national and local levels.