This chapter consists of cycad conservation-related articles. Click on the title to read the article.

CITES-related issues 

• CITES, cycad species & import/export requirements by John Finfrock
• CITES and Cycads by Neil Carroll
• CITES Photo Gallery (note that all of the cycad photos shown in this gallery were taken from the Virtual Cycad Encyclopedia photo gallery with permission from the Editor)
• IUCN Red List of Threatened and Endangered Cycads

Conservation initiatives

• Can world cycad conservation become a reality? by Tom Broome
• Cycads: The Lowveld National Botanical Garden's approach to their management by (the late) Johan P. Kluge
• Three-part series on offsite cycad preservation by Dr. Terrence Walters, Executive Director of the Montgomery Botanical Center in Miami, Florida, USA:

  ¤ Off-Site Cycad Preservation I. What Is Off-Site Preservation?
  ¤ Off-Site Cycad Preservation II. How to Develop Off-Site Collections
  ¤ Off-Site Cycad Preservation III. A Final Look at Off-Site Collections

Cycad smuggling issues

• You know you may be dealing with poached cycads when... by Tom Bihr
• Poaching: Code of Ethics and Conduct by Tom Bihr
• ESPU's Operation Jurassic Clamps Down on Cycad Smugglers article reprinted from WildNet Africa website
• Rich Johannesburg residents a threat to rare cycads article reprinted from WildNet Africa website
• International Plant Smugglers Weeded Out article on the cycad bust in California in July 2001--from the CITES website

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