Because most of the threatened species studied here live on islands, managing invasive predators on islands should be
a global conservation priority.
Not exact matches
While recent initiatives have attempted to address
conservation priorities at
global and national scales, most of these focus on developed countries in temperate regions.
The team used genetic information collected on field from tiger faecal samples, to understand how landscape features — like roads and agriculture — impact tiger movement in Central India, a
global high
priority tiger
conservation landscape.
Dr Samuel Turvey, Senior Research Fellow at ZSL, who co-chaired the major international
conservation planning meeting in Hainan that produced the report, said: «Ensuring a future for the Hainan gibbon is one of the most important
global priorities in mammal
conservation.
«Sadly, in the next 25 years, many of these primate species will disappear unless we make
conservation a
global priority,» he adds.
We must elevate the status of ecosystem
conservation from a side issue in
global environmental talks and treaties (that are exclusively focused on carbon) to an urgent high
priority issue.