In the fight to preserve global biodiversity, conservationists and biologists must make use of every available tool and approach.
This expansion could put at risk huge tracts of forested land in the Amazon region, home to the world's largest tropical rainforest and at least 10% of global biodiversity, say conservationists.
In the post-World War II era, clearcutting became the most common logging method, and the impact on the landscape and biodiversity alarmed conservationists, leading to the 1993 Forestry Act.
This is in sharp contrast to the broad and often utilitarian definition of biodiversity used when conservationists seek political or financial support for their work.
They hope that their work will provide a more complete picture of the reefs' historical biodiversity, one that conservationists will take into account while determining how best to protect and restore these fragile ocean ecosystems.
Though relatively simple, these tools could speed up the analysis of acoustic datasets packed with biodiversity information valuable to conservationists and others, says Andrew Farnsworth, a researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology who was not involved in the study.
Respondents in all profiles were highly concerned about forest wildfires, followed by the availability of quality products for those with productivist profiles, the biodiversity maintenance for the general conservationists and a more human-intervened landscape for the local conservationists.
The reported data on captive birds may thus have implications for wildlife biologists, veterinarians and conservationists of avian biodiversity dealing with lead exposure in wild birds of prey.
"100% coral cover and 100% biodiversity" is the way one expert, conservationist Robert Wintner, described them more recently.
The magnitude of the biodiversity found in the jungle startled conservationists, who called for the area to be protected.
