Resource Number: 14611
Title: Invasive Alien Species in South-Southeast Asia: National Reports & Directory of Resources
Publisher: Global Invasive Species Programme
Description: This report is one of three products of a workshop entitled, Prevention and Management of Invasive
Alien Species: Forging Cooperation throughout South and Southeast Asia. The meeting was held by the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) in Bangkok, Thailand on 14-16 August 2002. The other products include a workshop report, including a regional statement on IAS, available at www.gisp.org. This document is the first country-driven effort to assess the status of invasive alien species (IAS) and share information on IAS national programmes in the South-Southeast Asian region.
Each country that participated in the regional workshop was invited to submit a chapter that included
information on known IAS, existing strategies for preventing and managing IAS, objectives and contact
information for departments/ministeries concerned with IAS, priorities for future work on IAS, list of
in-country IAS experts, and a list of relevant references and websites. Participants were asked to
provide information relevant to both agriculture and environmental sectors and to work across multiple
ministeries when possible. The ability of each country to provide this information varied considerably,
and depended upon the amount of information already available on IAS problems in their country,
existence of in-country technical expertise, and the priority attached to IAS issues by the current
government. A few delegations were unable to contribute to this document and are in the process of
assessing IAS status in their countries.
The data provided within this document reflects the most up-to-date information available to the authors of each country report at the time of writing. These authors and the GISP make no claims that this information is complete or scientifically accurate (e.g., scientific names may not always have been
correctly assigned to non-native species), although the authors and GISP have attempted to ensure as
useful and reliable a document as possible.
GISP hopes that this document will be seen as a foundation for future work on IAS within the SouthSoutheast Asia region. Readers who wish to provide additional information or updates to specific
chapters are encouraged to contact the authors, as well as GISP. A web-based version of this report is
downloadable from www.gisp.org and, if new information warrants, will be updated as appropriate.
Reports arising from GISP’s workshops in other regions of the world will also be made available at
www.gisp.org.
Last Updated: June 21, 2019
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