News Headline

It’s time to get real about conservation

Source
Nature

Publication Date
2016-10-11

How can scientists protect biodiversity? In the wake of August’s Great Elephant Census, which revealed a precipitous decline in numbers throughout Africa, there were the usual calls from researchers for more and better data. Only if we know where and how many of each species there are, this argument goes, can we hope to conserve them. This is nonsense.

Content
http://www.nature.com/news/it-s-time-to-get-real-about-conservation-1.20773