Why does conservation minimize opportunity costs?

Abstract Effective management of depleted natural resources can be achieved only through changes in human actions. Opportunity costs represent the forgone benefits that would have flowed absence conservation interventions. To extent opportunity reflect lost opportunities for extractive uses (e.g., fishing or logging), and to those present threats nature, therefore positive differences values made management. Thus, logic dictates that, if conservationists make choices minimize costs, they are also necessarily limiting their impact. Unfortunately, empirical evidence from many contexts implies indeed consistent with an aim opportunitycosts, hence A better understanding relationship between impact will language used communicate progress, targets, planning more honest accountable explicitly focused on our actions make.