Is conservation triage just smart decision making?

By Madeleine C. Bottrill, Liana N. Joseph, Josie Carwardine, Michael Bode, C. Cook, E. Game, H. Grantham, Salit Kark, Simon Linke, E. McDonald‐Madden and 4 more. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2008

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis (2012, background): “, 2008), and even abandoning effort on saving species in one area in favour of other areas (Bottrill et al., 2008).”
Acting fast helps avoid extinction (2012, background): “…in the case of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle, that the appropriate decision was to do nothing because of a perceived low likelihood of success relative to the cost of management and limited resources that could be better allocated elsewhere (Bottrill et al. 2008; Joseph et al. 2009).”
Biodiversity, Purity, and Death: Conservation Biology as Biopolitics (2014, background): “In the biopolitical logic of conservation science, triage is “just smart decision making” (Bottrill et al, 2008, page 649).”
Pragmatic population viability targets in a rapidly changing world (2010, neutral): “While few conservationists explicitly advocate extinction of no-hopers, triage is implicit through recognition that current threats to biodiversity outweigh the resources available to mitigate these (Bottrill et al., 2008).”
Habitats Directive species lists: urgent need of revision (2012, background): “A combination of clear scientific and political agendas is needed to best achieve a species priority ranking that is both objective and practical (Bottrill et al., 2008; Schmeller et al., 2008).”
Integrating Conservation and Restoration in a Changing World (2015, background): “Given that not everything can be restored or conserved, the decision about what to let go—the thorny issue of triage— becomes central to conservation or restoration planning (Hobbs et al. 2003, Bottrill et al. 2008).”
Trends and biases in the listing and recovery planning for threatened species: an Australian case study (2012, background): “Inefficient and biased allocation of conservation efforts prevents debates about the adequacy of funds available for conservation and about howmore efficient solutions could otherwise be achieved (Bottrill et al., 2008).”
Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration (2015, background): “…now ( Jachowski & Kesler 2009, Parr et al. 2009) as in the early days of environmental science (Hardin 1968, 1985), it is increasingly accepted in light of human population growth, ongoing changes to natural systems, finite funds, and lack of political will (Bottrill et al. 2008, 2009).”
Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes (2010, background): “The proposed regime-shift model provides a framework for evaluating both existing biodiversity benefits and the likely effectiveness of management interventions, which should be taken into account for the efficient allocation of conservation and restoration resources [61].”
Banking on the future: progress, challenges and opportunities for the genetic conservation of forest trees (2017, background): “To efficiently allocate limited resources, it is necessary to apply rational, systematic, and defensible methods to prioritize species and populations for conservation (Bottrill et al. 2008).”
Finite conservation funds mean triage is unavoidable (2009, background): “1 Bottrill, M. et al. (2008) Is conservation triage just smart decision-”