The Asian Species Action Partnership is an IUCN SSC initiative aimed at reversing the declines in the wild of species on the brink of extinction – critically endangered freshwater and terrestrial vertebrates in Southeast Asia.

A comprehensive Global Mammal Assessment in 2008 implemented for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species revealed that Southeast Asia had by far the highest concentration of species on the edge of extinction of any largely continental region in the world. Similarly worrying patterns emerged in the illegal trade for reptiles in the region, indicating that there has been an explosion in urban markets for wildlife meat and medicinal products over the last few decades.

Designed and developed from the ground up, the Species on the Brink website is essentially a directory of the critically endangered animal species in Southeast Asia and the partner organizations working on their preservation. Its aim is to bring the conservation organizations together, serve as a central source of strategic information and ease the fundraising process both for the conservation organizations and the donors.

The development process required creation of several custom plugins, including a plugin that leverages the IUCN Red List API, automatically queries for the endangered species information from it, tracks the API version and creates alerts when the API version changes.

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