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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(230, 120, 3);">IUCN/SSC
BUTTERFLY SPECIALIST GROUP SURVEY </span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">Greetings partners in
butterfly conservation,</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">In fall of 2010, The
International Union for Conservation of Nature (<b>IUCN</b>) Species
Survival Commission (<b>SSC</b>) re-formed its<b> Butterfly Specialist
Group</b> and named Scott Hoffman Black, executive director of the Xerces
Society for Invertebrate Conservation, as the group's chair. In this
capacity, Scott will work to bring together scientists and
conservationists to facilitate butterfly conservation action and
influence policy worldwide. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">In anticipation of this
task, we have prepared a short on-line survey with the aim of identifying
current butterfly conservation projects, priorities, and needs, and the
individuals and organizations engaged in these efforts. The results of
this survey will be used to create an action plan to prioritize
individual species status assessments, surveys, and direct conservation
action. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">We'd appreciate your help
in better understanding what's being done and who is engaged in butterfly
conservation across the world. <b>Please complete this brief survey; it
should take less than 10 minutes to complete</b>. Any information you can
give will be of great benefit to the work of the Butterfly Specialist
Group. </span></p>
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survey out as broadly as possible. To help us do this, once you have
filled out the survey, <strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">please
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group. We are especially interested in gathering information about
butterfly conservation efforts in areas outside North America and Western
Europe, as the initial aim of this group is to prioritize work in
countries and regions generally underserved by butterfly conservation
organizations.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">The survey is in English.
If this is not your first language, we hope that you will still be able
to read and complete the survey and that language will not be a barrier
to your participation. Unfortunately, the specialist group doesn't
currently have the capacity to present and analyze the survey in other
languages.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">If you have any
questions, please email them to <a href="mailto:butterflysg@xerces.org" target="_blank" shape="rect">butterflysg@xerces.org</a>, or call (503) 232
6639. Thank you for your help in making the Butterfly Specialist Group a
success.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">Scott Hoffman Black</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">Executive Director - The
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black;">Chair - IUCN SSC
Butterfly Specialist Group</span></p>
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