<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>From the IUCN Species Survival Commission listserve:</div><div>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">STUART Simon, Chair IUCN SSC</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newsletter@iucn-email.org">newsletter@iucn-email.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:27 AM<br>Subject: What's all the BUZZ about?<br><br><br><u></u>
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<td style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:600px;table-layout:auto"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" align="left" style="width:600px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:600px;table-layout:auto"> <tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:600px"><img border="0" alt="IUCN Red List logo & bumble bee banner" src="http://i.emlfiles5.com/cmpimg/9/9/6/4/1/1/files/imagecache/513542/w600_324360_emailbanner.jpg" style="display:block;width:600px;min-height:200px" title="IUCN Red List logo & bumble bee banner" width="600" height="200"></td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:600px;table-layout:auto"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:1px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;width:600px"><img src="http://i.emlfiles5.com/cmpimg/t/s.gif" style="display:block" alt="" width="10" height="5"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:600px;table-layout:auto"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top:6px;padding-right:6px;padding-bottom:6px;padding-left:6px;width:auto"><div style="width:588px"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px;text-align:right"><a href="http://iucn-email.org/2GI3-B092-9640EN56A4/cr.aspx" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Can't read this email properly?</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:600px;table-layout:auto"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top:6px;padding-right:6px;padding-bottom:6px;padding-left:6px;width:auto"><div style="width:588px"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"><span style="line-height:150%">Last year our end of year on-line fundraising campaign was successful in raising USD 25,000 for IUCN Red List assessments.</span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%">In 2015 we will run two on-line campaigns focusing on specific species groups. It has been a challenging task to choose which groups to feature as all need support. After much discussion, we have chosen to focus on Bumblebees for the first campaign which starts today. You can see the campaign page at <a href="http://iucn-email.org/2GI3-B092-40EN56-4CZ2B-1/c.aspx" style="color:rgb(0,0,238);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%">More than 200 of the world’s 250 bumblebee species still need to be assessed for The IUCN Red List in order to help prevent their decline. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%">As you know, many SSC members already devote much time and expertise voluntarily to do Red List assessments for a huge variety of species. We are extremely grateful for this. SSC members are of course not a target for our online fundraising campaign. However, we would greatly appreciate your support in spreading the word far and wide by sharing the <a href="http://iucn-email.org/2GI3-B092-40EN56-4CZ2B-1/c.aspx" style="color:rgb(0,0,238);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">campaign link</a> with your networks to help your colleagues in the IUCN SSC Bumblebee Specialist Group assess ALL bumblebees and move The IUCN Red List closer to its goal of assessing 160,000 species by 2020.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%">If you are on social media keep your eye out for our Bumblebee facts which we will be posting each week! </p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="width:600px;table-layout:auto"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" 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style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%">Thank you for your support.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%">Kind regards,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"> </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:150%"><b>Simon Stuart</b></p><p 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