The Built Heritage in Southeast Asia: Conservation Education and Training Initiative (SEAI) aims to respond to three significant, regional conservation needs identified as a result of an assessment conducted by the GCI between 2004 and 2006. This study, undertaken in cooperation with conservation practitioners and institutions in Southeast Asia, identified the following priorities for the regio...

I argue (Clavero 2014) that the conservation efforts devoted in Spain to non-native species (white-clawed crayfish [Austropotamobius italicus] and European mink [Mustela vison]) are an example of shifting baseline syndrome because degraded (i.e., invaded) ecosystems states are now perceived as desirable. The syndrome is further manifested in the generalized rejection of ecologically similar Nor...

Identifying priority areas for biodiversity is essential for directing conservation resources. Fundamentally, we must know where individual species live, which ones are vulnerable, where human actions threaten them, and their levels of protection. As conservation knowledge and threats change, we must reevaluate priorities. We mapped priority areas for vertebrates using newly updated data on >21...

A s scientists in a maturing discipline, conservation biologists are still formulating methodologies, identifying and prioritizing the problems they must solve, and forging and understanding their relation to other disciplines such as ecology, geography, and sociology. These two books make valuable contributions to conservation biology and document some of its progress, both theoretical and emp...

Borneo harbours more endemic carnivores than does any other island in the world except Madagascar, and almost half of the Bornean carnivore species have been classified by The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as globally threatened. Here, a systematic conservation planning framework highlighted key carnivore landscapes, conservation research and intervention priorities, and gaps in current k...

Conservation and restoration priorities often focus on separate ecosystem problems. Inspired by the November 11th (2011) landslide event near Manizales, and the current poor results of Colombia's Article 111 of Law 99 of 1993 as a conservation measure in this country, we set out to prioritize conservation and restoration areas where landslide prevention would complement bird conservation in the...

A s scientists in a maturing discipline, conservation biologists are still formulating methodologies, identifying and prioritizing the problems they must solve, and forging and understanding their relation to other disciplines such as ecology, geography, and sociology. These two books make valuable contributions to conservation biology and document some of its progress, both theoretical and emp...