Approaches towards a critical evaluation and update of the red list of South African Butterflies

Date
2006-03
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Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Using the World Conservation Union’s (formerly the International Union for the Conservation of Nature) IUCN 2001 categories and criteria, the conservation status of the South African butterfly fauna has been reassessed. This study includes an assessment of the 62 globally threatened South African taxa and 1 that has a marginal distribution in this region.
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Thesis (MScConsEcol (Conservation Ecology and Entomology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
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Theses -- Conservation ecology and entomology, Dissertations -- Conservation ecology and entomology
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