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Group email: saolawg@gmail.com
Committee: Bill Robichaud, Simon Hedges and Barney Long.

The recently established Saola Working Group (SWG), originated from the recognition by several Saola researchers and conservationists of the need to foster exchange of information on Saola, standardize research on the species, and in general provide mutual support to each others' Saola conservation efforts. The group was born from a side meeting at the 2004 IUCN World Conservation Congress in Bangkok. It presently has about twenty members, based mainly in Lao PDR and Vietnam.

Mission Statement: "The Saola Working Group seeks to advance conservation of the saola in nature through an exchange of information, ideas and encouragement, and the collaborative promotion of sound research and priority conservation actions".

News and Activities:

News story from Science on the August Meeting

Proceedings of the First Meeting of the Saola Working Group - August 2009

Saola on the radio. Listen Here

Saola Working Groups's meeting is in the International News. Click here for more details.

Last chance to save Saola from the brink of extinction? Click here for more details

Members of the current group submitted to IUCN/SSC an application to change the status of Saola from 'Endangered' to 'Critically Endangered'. The change was approved in time for the 2006 Red List.

The electronic Saola Working Group Newsletter premiered in April 2006, read the issues on the species page.

Reports 2009 for discussion by Saola Working Group

• Robichaud, W. (WCS), 1999. Saola Conservation Action Plan for Lao PDR - June 1999. IUCN. Including Appendix A and Appendix B
• Hardcastle et al. (ed.), 2004. Rediscovering the Saola from Proceedings of the "Rediscovering the saola - a status review and conservation planning workshop. Vietnam: Pu Mat National Park
• Minh Hoang et al. 2004. Saola conservation in Quang Nam province. WWF Mosaic Project.
• Nguyen Xuan Dang. Status of Saola population in Thua Thein Hue – Quang Nam and recommendations on conservation methods. [PRESENTATION]
• Robichaud, W.G., 1998. Physical and behavioral description of a captive Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis. Journal of Mammalogy, 79(2):394-405
• Stone, R., 2006. The Saola's last standScience, 314:1380-1383
• Timmins et al., 2008. Pseudoryx nghetinhensis. [Online] [Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/18597/0] [Last accessed: 7/6/09]
• Vu Van Dung et al., 1993. A new species of living bovid from Vietnam. Nature, 363: 443-445.

Saola Working Group members, please log in to the members area to find further documents: Saola Members Area