Aliens Newsletter

The Invasive Species Specialist Group publishes its newsletter Aliens bi-annually. It provides interesting and timely information on invasive species and associated issues. Contributions, should focus on conservation issues rather than economic, health or agricultural aspects of alien invasions. News of upcoming conferences, publications, and reports are also welcome. Please send your contributions, marked "for consideration for Aliens" to Maj De Poorter at: m.depoorter@auckland.ac.nz

If you use any of the information provided in the newsletter, please cite the source as given in the newsletter. If you wish to reproduce a full article please obtain author's permission.

To subscribe to Aliens, please complete this form (Word Document).

All issues of Aliens will soon be available in PDF format at this site. Back issues include:

• 2006: issues 23 (pdf)
• 2005: issues 21 (pdf) and 22 (pdf)
• 2004: issues 19-20 (pdf)
• 2003: issues 17 (pdf) and 18 (pdf)
• 2002: issues 15 (pdf) and 16 (pdf)
• 2001: issues 13 (pdf) and 14 (pdf)

  Issue 14: special issue on islands

• 2000: issues 11 and 12

Issue 11: special issue with 16 page lift-out "IUCN Guidelines for the Prevention of Biodiversity Loss Caused by Alien Species"
Issue 12: special issue with a lift-out booklet "100 of the world's worst invasive alien species"

• 1999: issues 9 and 10
• 1998: issues 7 and 8
• 1997: issues 5 and 6

  Issue 6: special issue on the Pacific Islands region

• 1996: issues 3 and 4
• 1995: issues 1 and 2

Issues 1 to 6 of Aliens are currently available for on-line viewing at the Berkeley Digital Library Project's Cheshire II Document Search System. To view any issue, type: Aliens in the "Title" field of the search form.Thank you to the University of California at Berkeley for hosting these issues.

We gratefully acknowledge that the publication of Aliens is supported by Landcare Research Ltd, New Zealand.

Aliens-L Listserver

Aliens-L is a listserver dedicated to alien invasive species, with a focus on those that threaten biodiversity. It allows users to freely seek and share information on alien invasive species and related issues. Participation from all who are interested in the invasive species problem is welcome.

To subscribe, send an email without a subject header to:
Aliens-L-join@indaba.iucn.org OR listadmin@indaba.iucn.org with the message: subscribe Aliens-L. When you have subscribed you will get a message with instructions for using the list.