AZE members are grateful to the following Supporters
American Bird Conservancy
American Zoo and Aquarium Association
The Benficia Foundation
BirdLife International's Founder Patrons and Rare Bird Club
Conservation International
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Disney Foundation
Fauna and Flora International
The Garfield Foundation
Ben Hammett
The Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation for Animal Welfare
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
MAVA Foundation
National Science Foundation
NatureServe
The Nature Conservancy
U.S. Department of State
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Parks
WWF

PNAS Paper Citation
Ricketts, T.H., et al. 2005. Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - US. 51: 18497-18501

Authors of Scientific Paper Published in PNAS.
Taylor H. Ricketts¹, Eric Dinerstein¹, Tim Boucher², Thomas M. Brooks³,
Stuart H.M. Butchart⁴, Michael Hoffmann³, John Lamoreux⁵, John Morrison¹,
Mike Parr⁶, John D. Pilgrim³, Ana S.L. Rodrigues³, Wes Sechrest⁷, George E.
Wallace⁶, Ken Berlin⁸, Jon Bielby⁹, Neil D. Burgess¹, Don R. Church³, Neil
Cox⁷, David Knox³, Colby Loucks¹, Gary W. Luck¹⁰0, Lawrence L. Master¹¹,
Robin Moore¹², Robin Naidoo¹, Robert Ridgely⁶, George E. Schatz¹³, Gavin
Shire⁶, Holly Strand¹, Wes Wettengel¹, Eric Wikramanayake¹

1 Conservation Science Program, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC 20037,
USA
2 Global Priorities Group, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA 22203, USA
3 Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International,
Washington, DC 20036, USA
4 BirdLife International, Cambridge CB3 0NA, UK
5 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
6 American Bird Conservancy, Washington, DC 20009, USA
7 IUCN-SSC/CI-CABS Biodiversity Assessment Unit, Washington, DC 20036, USA
8 Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom, Washington, DC 20005
9 Institute of Zoology, London NW1 4RY, UK
10 The Johnstone Centre, School of Environmental and Information Sciences,
Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW 2640, Australia
11 NatureServe, Arlington, VA 22209, USA
12 Biology Department, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620
13 Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO 63166, USA

AZE Steering Committee
Leon Bennun (BirdLife International – UK)
Timothy Boucher (The Nature Conservancy - U.S.)
Constantino Aucca Chutas (Asociación Ecosistemas Andinos - Peru)
Eric Dinerstein (World Wildlife Fund - U.S.)
Guven Eken (Doga Dernegi - Turkey)
Matt Foster (Conservation International - U.S.)
Juan Martinez Gomez (Island Endemics – Mexico)
Sanjay Molur (Zoo Outreach Organization - India)
Gláucia Moreira Drummond (Fundação Biodiversitas – Brazil)
Mike Parr (American Bird Conservancy – U.S.)

AZE Site Reviewers
S. Aguilar, A. Aguirre Muñoz, H. Aikman, G. Allen, F. Amidon, L. Andriamaro,
G. Angehr, F. Angulo, D. Armstrong, Asociación Cracidae Peru, C. Aucca, Aves Argentinas - Asoc. Ornitológica del Plata, D. Ayala, K. Barnes, P. Bates, B. Baxter, B. Beehler, Bermuda Department of Conservation Services, Blue Iguana Recovery Program, M. Bowe, E. Bowen-Jones, K. Boyla, A. Britton, G. Bronner, M. Brooke, K. Buhlmann, F. Burton, Cambridge University, R. Camp, Charles Darwin Research Station, V. Chartendrault, Claremont University, J. Clarke, Comisión Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (Cuba), Crocodile Specialist Group, D. Crouchley, R. Cuthbert, P. David, I. Davidson, A. Di Giacomo, N. Dokuchaev, P. Duncan, J. Durbin, G. Dutson, G. Eken, G. Engblom, P. Escalante, A. Farjon, J. Fellowes, E. M. Fernandez, N. Formozov, J. Foufopoulos, I. Franke, S. Fretz, J. Gates, J. Gerlach, J. Gilardi, J. Goerck, F. Golenishchev, S. Goodman, G. Gordon, A. Grant, A.C. Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, J. D'Amico Hales, F. Hawkins, L. Heaney, K. Helgen, A. B. Hennessey, G. Hilton, Hispaniolan Ornithological Society, R. Hoffmann, S. Hooson, A. Horsup, A. Huston, INCASPIZA, K. Ishida, Z. Islam, R. James, F. Johow, K. Kawanishi, J. Kirkwood, W. Kostka, S. Kuppusamy, La Unión de Ornitólogos de Chile, P. Latch, M. Lau, T. Leary, L. Liat, B. Lloyd, J. Madeiros, D. Mudappa, R. Maloney, P. McClelland, N. McCulloch, K. McDonald, D. McFarlane, D. Merton, G. Narayan, S. Nalavade, New Zealand Department of Conservation, C. O'Donnell, S. Ohdachi, W. Oliver, A. Olson, Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology University of Cape Town, R. Pethiyagoda, G. Powell, P. Pritchard, Pronatura Noreste, PROVITA, H. Rabarison, Z. Lalaina Rakotobe, H. Randrianasolo, P. Raust, W. Raynor, M. Reynolds, M. Rose, P. Ross, P. Ryan, A. Rylands, P. Salaman, L. Salas, A. Samaniego, C. Sharpe, A. Smith, Smithsonian Institution, J. Spaggiari, T. Stevenson, T. Suaesi, K. Sugimura, M. Takashi, H. Temple, B. Tershy, A. Tiraa, D. Towns, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Universidad Nacional Major de San Marcos, University of Adeliade, B. van Balen, E. van der Straeten, E. Vanderwerf, P. van Dijk, L. Verfaille, A. Walsh, R. Wanless, R. Wattling, D. Weidenfeld, A. Whitaker, Wildlife Management International, World Parrot Trust, X. Yan, Y. Yokokata.

AZE Data Providers and Assessors
Producing this analysis would not be possible without the extraordinary enthusiasm and dedication of many people around the world who volunteer their time and effort to supply Red List assessments and the supporting documentation required to identify AZE species and sites. Threatened species data for the five taxa considered here were compiled by: staff at BirdLife International (principally Stuart Butchart and Alison Stattersfield; for details see [BirdLife_International, 2004 #1924]); the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) coordinating team (Neil Cox, Janice Chanson, Simon Stuart, and Bruce Young); the Global Mammal Assessment (GMA) coordinating team (Jonathan Baillie, Mariano Gimenez Dixon, and Wes Sechrest) and GMA facilitators (Giovanni Amori, Jonathan Bielby, Luigi Boitani, Gianluca Catulla, Zoe Cokeliss, Ben Collen, Neil Cox, Anna Fabiani, Michael Hoffmann, Penny Langhammer, Ilaria Marzetti, Monica Masi, Carlo Rondinini, Monica Rulli, Valeria Salvatori); the IUCN Red List Programme staff (Craig Hilton-Taylor, Caroline Pollock and the Red List intern Tristan Tyrrell); and members of the IUCN/SSC Taxon Specialist Groups.

Red List Assessors for AZE species - Conifers
Conifer Specialist Group, A. Farjon, Craig Hilton-Taylor, T. Jaffré, Fu< Likuo, Xiang Qiaoping, Liu Zhengyu, and Li Zhenyu.

Red List Assessors for AZE species - Amphibians
Manuel Acevedo, Andrés Acosta-Galvis, Leticia Afuang, Angel Alcala, Ross Alford, Ana Almandáriz, Diego Almeida, Adolfo Amézquita, Jean-Louis Amiet, Steven Anderson, Franco Andreone, Ariadne Angulo, María Cristina Ardila-Robayo, Wilfredo Arizabal, Jan Willem Arntzen, Néstor Basso, Christopher Beachy, Trevor Beebee, Ben Bell, David Bickford, S.D. Biju, Federico Bolaños, Wilmar Bolívar, Diva Borges-Najosa, Jaime Bosch, Derek Brown, Rafe Brown, Martín R. Bustamante, Luis Canseco-Márquez, Ulisses Caramaschi, Sergio Potsch de Carvalho-e-Silva, Franklin Casteñeda, Fernando Castro, Ye Changyuan, Alan Channing, Gerardo Chaves, Li Cheng, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, John Clarke, Luis A. Coloma, Claudia Cortez, Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz, Gustavo Cruz, Michael Cunningham, Indraneil Das, Yang Datong, Luis Díaz, Arvin Diesmos, Mae Leonida Diesmos, Cynthia Dolino, Robert Drewes, Sushil Dutta, Güven Eken, Zhao Ermi, Xie Feng, Oscar Flores-Villela, Ramón Formas, Eliza Maria Xavier Freire, Liang Gang, Paulo Garcia, Mario García-París, Juan Elías García-Pérez, Genevieve Gee, Engin Gem, Ernesto Recuero Gil, Graeme Gillespie, Frank Glaw, Richard Griffiths, Wu Guanfu, Baldwin Gutierrez, Geoffrey Hammerson, Katie Hampson, Jerry Hardy, James Harrison, Blair Hedges, Jean-Marc Hero, Maria Isabel Herrera, Ronald Heyer, Harry Hines, Conrad Hoskin, Kim Howell, Gu Huiqing, Roberto Ibáñez, Sixto Inchaustegui, Robert Inger, Djoko Iskandar, Rafael Joglar, Karl-Heinz Jungfer, Yoshio Kaneko, Tuba Kiliç, Susan Koenig, Gunther Köhler, Jörn Köhler, Sergius Kuzmin, Linda LaClaire, Maklarin Lakim, Malcolm Largen, Michael Wai Neng Lau, Esteban Lavilla, Edgar Lehr, Frank Lemckert, Fei Liang, Murray Littlejohn, Miguel Lizana, Simon Loader, Stefan Lötters, John Lynch, Ruth Adriana Maldonado-Silva, Aldrin Mallari, Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi, Tom Mann, Jesús Manzanilla, Enrique La Marca, Jorge Luis Martinez, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Masafumi Matsui, Lovemore Mazibuko, Randy McCranie, Keith McDonald, John Measey, Michele Menegon, James Menzies, Andrés Merino-Viteri, Ed Meyer, Abraham Mijares, Leslie Minter, Javier Icochea Monteza, Mumpuni, Luciana Barreto Nascimento, Daniel Neira, David Newell, Fernando Nogales, Herman Núñez, Jose Núñez, Ronald Nussbaum, Annemarie Ohler, Gabriela Parra Olea, Perry Ong, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Mariela Osorno-Muñoz, Liza Paguntalan, Theodore Papenfuss, Fred Parker, Marisol Pedregosa, Oswaldo Luiz Peixoto, Jean-Luc Perret, Rohan Pethiyagoda, Martin Pickersgill, Bruno Pimenta, Martha Patricia Ramírez Pinilla, Li Pipeng, Robert Powell, John Poynton, César Aguilar Puntriano, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, M.S. Ravichandran, Christopher Raxworthy, Steffen Reichle, Richard Retallick, Robert Reynolds, Stephen Richter, Ignacio De la Riva, Peter Robertson, Carlos Frederico da Rocha, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Argelia Rodríguez, Lily Rodríguez, Santiago Ron, Debjani Roy, Jose Vicente Rueda, Antonio Salas, Alfredo Salvador, Suleima Santiago, Georgina Santos-Barrera, Jay Savage, Arne Schiøtz, Benedikt Schmidt, Rainer Schulte, Celsa Señaris, Joan Mayol Serra, Brad Shaffer, Donald Shepard, Richard Siegel, Anslem de Silva, Débora Silvano, Ulrich Sinsch, Gabriel Skuk, Eric Smith, Frank Solís, Max Sparreboom, Michael Sredl, Chelmala Srinivasulu, Robert Stuebing, Mills Tandy, Miguel Tejedo, Ana Maria Telles, Richard Thomas, Richard Tinsley, Mandy Tocher, Josiah Townsend, Dondi Ubaldo, Carmen Úbeda, Ismail Ugurtas, Denis Vallan, Peter Paul van Dijk, Monique Van Sluys, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Alberto Veloso, Miguel Vences, Vanessa Verdade, S.P. Vijayakumar, David Wake, Chou Wenhao, Deepthi Wickramasinghe, Byron Wilson, Larry David Wilson, Paul Yambun, Mario Yánez-Muñoz, Bruce Young, and Wang Yuezhao.

Red List Assessors for AZE species - Reptiles
Asian Turtle Trade Working Group, Australasian Reptile & Amphibian
Specialist Group, Crocodile Specialist Group, and Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. R. Gibson and N. Mitchell.

Red List Assessors for AZE species - Birds
The assessments of birds on the IUCN Red List are provided by BirdLife International, and build on data and information contributed by well over 1,000 species experts during four complete assessments of all species since the 1980s. These contributors are listed in [BirdLife_International, 2004 #1924], and for each species all contributors are acknowledged individually in the species factsheets available at www.birdlife.org. BirdLife International gratefully acknowledges the continued generous contributions of data, information and informed comment from these individuals.

Red List Assessors for AZE species - Mammals
Asian Rhino Specialist Group, Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group, Caprinae Specialist Group, Chiroptera Specialist Group, Deer Specialist Group, Insectivore Specialist Group, Lagomorph Specialist Group, Mustelid, Viverrid & Procyonid Specialist Group, Pigs & Peccaries Specialist Group, and Primate Specialist Group. Participants and organizers of the CBSG CAMP India Workshop (August 1997), the CBSG CAMP Workshop Status of South Asian Chiroptera (India, January 2002), the GMA African Small Mammals Workshop (U.K., January 2004), the CBSG CAMP-GMA South Asia Non-volant Small Mammals Workshop (February 2004), and the SAMD-GMA Southeast Asian Mammals Workshop (Thailand, May 2004). B. Agwanda, J. Baillie, M.I. Bampi, W. Bergmans, L. Boitani, A.G. Chiarello, F.W. Cotterill, F. Dieterlen, L. Dollar, A. Eudey, J. Fahr, G.A.B. da Fonseca, J. Ganzhorn, L. Heaney, K. Howell, A. Hutson, R. Hutterer, N. Ishii, L. Lavrenchenko, M. Marcelino, S. Maree, S.L. Mendes, S. Mickleburgh, D.W. Nagorsen, J. Kerbis Peterhans, A.B. Rylands, D. Schlitter, P. Taylor, and E. van der Straeten.