Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were listed as endangered in 1970 under the
Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, the precursor to the Endangered Species …

Global biodiversity targets have far-reaching implications for nature conservation worldwide.
Scenarios and models hold unfulfilled promise for ensuring such targets are well founded …

The Red List Index uses information from the IUCN Red List to track trends in the projected
overall extinction risk of sets of species. It has been widely recognised as an important …

Decisions under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) require scientific input on the risk
that the species will become extinct. A series of critiques on the role of science in ESA …

Management of threatened and endangered species would seem to be a perfect context for
adaptive management. Many of the decisions are recurrent and plagued by uncertainty …

A critical step towards reducing the incidence of extinction is to identify and rank the species
at highest risk, while implementing protective measures to reduce the risk of extinction to …

Theoretical and empirical work has shown that once reduced in size and geographical
range, species face a considerably elevated risk of extinction. We predict minimum viable …

Expert knowledge is used routinely to inform listing decisions under the IUCN Red List
criteria. Differences in opinion arise between experts in the presence of epistemic …

AH Harcourt, a well-known professor of anthropology at the University of California, has
published papers on gorillas since 1978 and KJ Stewart has worked with him since 1987 …

Systematic conservation planning aims to identify comprehensive protected area networks
that together will minimize biodiversity loss. Importantly, conservation planners seek to …