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FREE DECEMBER 2014 - N°311 VIVRE LA NATURE ! VIVRE LA NATURE Terre Sauvage Terre BEL: 6,30 € - LUX: 5,95 € - PORT CONT: 6.2 € - AUTRES UE/EU: 6.2 € - CH: 11,90SFR - DOM: 6.2 € n° 311Terre Sauvage DÉCEMBRE 2014 SOS SAUVONS NOS ESPÈCES ! - UICN, LA LISTE ROUGE DES ESPÈCES MENACÉES DE A 50 ANS ZONE CFP: 800 XPF - MAROC: 80 DH - TUNISIE: 12000 DT - CANADA: 10,95 $C - USA: 10,95 $US JOIN SOS TODAY www.SaveOurSpecies.org www.sospecies.org/donate SaveOurSpecies speciessavers newsletter Michel Gunther EDITORIAL BY JEAN-JACQUES FRESKO Editor WHAT ABOUT PIERRE WITT PIERRE THE RACOON? u’ve got to be a nutcase, or perhaps (Critically Endangered) to the most reassuring (Least utterly Italian, to write a highly Concern). But the Red List is a long way from recor- erudite book (406 pages, no less) ding all living things. It teems with et cetera’s; the list entitled The Infi nity of Lists. In it, suggests more than it says. It suggests the infi niteness Umberto Eco explains that there of life, the fascinating plasticity of species, their ability are lists and lists: those of the prac- to move between categories. Practical or poetic, or both tical sort, and of the poetic variety. at once, the Red List is above all a tremendous working The former category covers such things as shopping tool for all the – increasingly numerous – people for Ylists, library inventories, restaurant menus and tele- whom conserving nature is a priority objective. Under phone directories. Those lists contain things that exist the leadership of Julia Marton-Lefèvre, its Director and are truly known; they are exhaustive, fi nite, and General for the past eight years and still for a few more coherent. And they are orderly too: you won’t store weeks, IUCN and its partners have launched the SOS the tiramisu with the vegetables, or Modiano with – Save Our Species initiative to translate the Red List’s the humorists. The poetic list is quite the opposite: to sometimes depressing informa- hell with exhaustiveness, classifi cation and coherence. tion into concrete actions and In this category can be found Jacques Prévert’s poem Translating mobilisations on the ground; to Inventaire (“Inventory”) and its racoon; the enume- the Red List’s transform the sorry observation ration of the ships in the Greek fl eet (350 lines in The information that biodiversity is wilting into Iliad!), the litanies of the saints, and the stars in the into concrete momentum that inspires hope. sky. Here, the aim is not to draw up a fi nite inventory, actions, on the Behind Marton-Lefèvre, whose but, conversely, to open a window onto the infi nite, ground. obstinate work Terre Sauvage the incommensurable. The purpose of such a list is the applauds, and behind IUCN explicit or implied et cetera to which it leads. and its experts, whole swathes of our societies are swin- ging into action. In this issue you will fi nd out about CAUTIOUSLY – or perhaps with just a hint of unexpected and often little-known actions led by, among cowardice –, Eco did not fi nd room to state in which other parties, large corporations (BNP Paribas, Kering, category he would place the Red List of Threatened Klorane) – out of conviction, economic realism, or both Species, to which we devote this issue, coinciding with at the same time. its fi ftieth anniversary. Is it a practical list? Come to think of it, which Red List category does Defi nitely: the species it surveys actually exist; they are Prévert’s racoon fall into? “Least concern”. So: no known and perfectly described by the 10,000 experts worries for that species. It’s one of the lucky ones... (do you want the list?) who continually supply data for PS – Terre Sauvage dedicates this issue to Christophe Sidamon-Pesson. it worldwide, coordinated by IUCN (the International Union for Conservation of Nature), our partner in pro- ducing this issue. It contains animals and plants neatly arranged in rigorous categories, from the most alarming N°311 Terre Sauvage 3 CONTENTS Savoie Technolac, 12, allée du Lac de Garde, BP 308, 73377 Le Bourget-du-Lac, France. To contact the editorial department: call +33 (0)4 79 26 27 then your correspondent’s extension (2 digits); or go to our website [www.terre-sauvage.com]. SPECIAL 50 YEARS OF To contact the editorial department: call +33 4 79 26 27 then your correspondent’s extension (2 digits); or go to our website + 33 (0)826 20 00 00 (0.15 €/min.) THE IUCN RED LIST Terre Sauvage subscriptions: Milan Presse, Service Abonnements, B 150, 60732 Sainte-Geneviève, France Cedex. Via email: [[email protected]]. 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