Acronyms and Information

BEP - The Border Ecology Project, also known as EWF - Eco Web Fronteriza (UN)
http://www.borderecoweb.sdsu.edu/bew/drct_pgs/b/bep.html

EWF - Eco Web Fronteriza, also known as BEP - The Border Ecology Project (UN)
http://www.borderecoweb.sdsu.edu/bew/drct_pgs/b/bep.html

GRIP - Gila Resources Information Project http://www.gilaresources.info/

GST - The Global Support Team, now known as the SUT - Sustainable Use Team.

(UN/IUCN) "The IUCN Sustainable Use Team was a two-member team that acted as SUSG's secretariat. Based in the IUCN Multilateral Office in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., the team comprised Ruth Barreto (Coordinator) and David Beamont (Administration and Communications). Effective 1 January 2001, the IUCN Social Policy
Programme, IUCN Economics Programme, and the secretariat component of the

Sustainable Use Initiative (i.e., the Global Support Team) were merged to form a new Socio-Economics Group. One year later this Group had been disbanded. In March 2003 this Team was shut down due to budgetary constraints."
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/susg/suteam.html

PAS - Pan-African Symposium, also known as PAS1 and PAS2. (UN/IUCN)
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/susg/pas1.html

RSUSG - Regional Sustainable Use Specialty Groups. The IUCN SSC Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SUSG) comprises 17 decentralised networks of Regional SUSGs who analyse and compare local use systems through case studies, regional reviews, workshops, and symposiums. The regional groups function under the auspices of IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC). Each volunteer group decides its own membership, leadership, activities, and priorities within a global framework adopted by the SUSG Steering Committee. (UN) http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/susg/aboutove.html

SCR - The Southern Cone Region: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. (UN) http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/susg/susgs/samsouthcone.html

SSC - Species Survival Commission (UN/IUCN) http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc

SUI - the IUCN Sustainable Use Initiative, an interdisciplinary initiative
founded in 1995 to enhance and share knowledge of the social and biological factors affecting the sustainable use of wild renewable resources. SUI's mission was to conserve biological diversity and benefit people by: Improving the understanding of the social and biological factors that enhance the sustainability of uses of wild living resources; Promoting that understanding to IUCN's members, decision-makers, and others; and Assisting IUCN members, partner organisations, and governments in the application of that understanding. The SUI was composed of three parts: An Advisory Group, the Sustainable Use Specialist Group, and an IUCN Secretariat (the Global Support Team), that focussed on providing technical and financial support to regional SUSG networks, and enhancing communication of information about sustainable use to, from
and between regional networks of the SUSG. The Secretariat also supported the functioning of the Advisory Group, coordinated the communication of lessons learned to wider audiences, and sought to incorporate such lessons in the global policies of the IUCN Council. Effective 1 January 2001, the IUCN Social Policy Programme, IUCN Economics Programme, and the secretariat component of the
Sustainable Use Initiative (i.e., the Global Support Team) were merged to form a new Socio-Economics Group. One year later this Group had been disbanded. http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/susg/aboutove.html

SUSG - Sustainable Use Specialty Group, also known as IUCN - International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which is also known as the World Conservation Union. The IUCN SSC Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SUSG) comprises 17 decentralised networks of Regional SUSGs who analyse and compare local use systems through case studies, regional reviews, workshops, and symposiums. The
regional groups function under the auspices of IUCN's Species Survival Commission

(SSC). Each volunteer group decides its own membership, leadership,
activities, and priorities -- within a global framework adopted by the SUSG Steering Committee. (UN) http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/susg/aboutove.html

SUT - Sustainable Use Team, formerly known as GST - The Global Support Team. (UN/IUCN) "The IUCN Sustainable Use Team was a two-member team that acted as SUSG's secretariat. Based in the IUCN Multilateral Office in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., the team comprised Ruth Barreto (Coordinator) and David Beamont
(Administration and Communications). In March 2003 this Team was shut down due to budgetary constraints." http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/susg/suteam.html

VSG - The SSC Veterinary Specialist Group (UN/IUCN)
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/sgprofiles/vetsg.htm