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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Rike Bolam, Dr Louise MairORCiD, Professor Philip McGowan
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© 2022 The Authors. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Ecological Society of America. Averting human-induced extinctions will require strong policy commitments that comprehensively address threats to species. A new Global Biodiversity Framework is currently being negotiated by the world’s governments through the Convention on Biological Diversity. Here we explored how the suggested targets in this framework could contribute to reducing threats to threatened vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants, and assessed the importance of a proposed target to implement recovery actions for threatened species. Although many of the targets benefit species, we found that extinction risk for over half (57%) of threatened species would not be reduced sufficiently without a target promoting recovery actions, including ex situ conservation, reintroductions, and other species-specific interventions. A median of 54 threatened species per country require such actions, and most countries of the world hold such species. Preventing future human-induced extinctions requires policy commitments to implement targeted recovery actions for threatened species in addition to broader efforts to mitigate threats, underpinned by transformative change.
Author(s): Bolam FC, Ahumada J, Akcakaya HR, Brooks TM, Elliott W, Hoban S, Mair L, Mallon D, McGowan PJK, Raimondo D, Rodriguez JP, Roe D, Seddon MB, Shen X, Stuart SN, Watson JEM, Butchart SHM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Year: 2023
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Pages: 64-70
Print publication date: 01/03/2023
Online publication date: 18/07/2022
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 12/08/2022
ISSN (print): 1540-9295
ISSN (electronic): 1540-9309
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2537
DOI: 10.1002/fee.2537
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