Half of resources in threatened species conservation plans are allocated to research and monitoring.
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SUBMITTER: Buxton RT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7508813 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
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Half of resources in threatened species conservation plans are allocated to research and monitoring.
Buxton Rachel T RT Avery-Gomm Stephanie S Lin Hsein-Yung HY Smith Paul A PA Cooke Steven J SJ Bennett Joseph R JR
Nature communications 20200922 1
Funds to combat biodiversity loss are insufficient, requiring conservation managers to make trade-offs between costs for actions to avoid further loss and costs for research and monitoring to guide effective actions. Using species' management plans for 2328 listed species from three countries we show that 50% of species' proposed recovery plan budgets are allocated to research and monitoring. The proportion of budgets allocated to research and monitoring vary among jurisdictions and taxa, but ov ...[more]
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