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Reconciling global mammal prioritization schemes into a strategy
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posted on 2023-05-17, 12:08 authored by Rondinini, C, Boitani, L, Rodrigues, ASL, Thomas BrooksThomas Brooks, Pressey, RL, Visconti, P, Baillie, JEM, Baisero, D, Cabeza, M, Crooks, KR, Di Marco, M, Redford, KH, Andelman, SA, Hoffmann, M, Maiorano, L, Stuart, SN, Wilson, KAThe huge conservation interest that mammals attract and the large datasets that have been collected on them have propelled a diversity of global mammal prioritization schemes, but no comprehensive global mammal conservation strategy. We highlight some of the potential discrepancies between the schemes presented in this theme issue, including: conservation of species or areas, reactive and proactive conservation approaches, conservation knowledge and action, levels of aggregation of indicators of trend and scale issues. We propose that recently collected global mammal data and many of the mammal prioritization schemes now available could be incorporated into a comprehensive global strategy for the conservation of mammals. The task of developing such a strategy should be coordinated by a super-partes, authoritative institution (e.g. the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN). The strategy would facilitate funding agencies, conservation organizations and national institutions to rapidly identify a number of short-term and long-term global conservation priorities, and act complementarily to achieve them.
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Publication title
Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions. Biological SciencesVolume
366Issue
1578Pagination
2722-2728ISSN
0962-8436Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
Royal Soc LondonPlace of publication
6 Carlton House Terrace, London, England, Sw1Y 5AgRights statement
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