None of the leading conservation groups pressing Mr. Kikwete to reconsider say they are trying to block the national highway altogether; they just oppose it running through the Serengeti, which is a Unesco World Heritage site.
Although there had been a conservation movement pressing for the thylacine's protection since 1901, driven in part by the increasing difficulty in obtaining specimens for overseas collections, political difficulties prevented any form of protection coming into force until 1936.
The paper, based mostly on expert opinion, identifies and discusses challenges to marine conservation planning in the Coral Triangle – a region where, despite pressing conservation issues, conservation planning has had relatively limited influence.
We do not claim that it is the definitive tally of the world's most important or pressing conservation problems.
Thus, the species accounts are coupled with an introductory chapter on the region's unique environments and pressing conservation challenges.
The David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship is a renowned postdoctoral program designed to support early-career scientists tackling the world's most pressing conservation challenges.
It thus seems reasonable that the same marketing principles and tools could and should be used to address pressing conservation issues.
Conservation biologists, landscape managers, restoration ecologists, social scientists and tree geneticists need to engage with forest pathologists and the various stakeholders throughout the distributional range of F. excelsior so as to tackle this pressing conservation challenge.
Our analysis provides the first quantitative estimate of the size of the eastern golden eagle population, and we demonstrate the utility of one approach to use citizen-science data to address a pressing conservation goal population size estimation.
And on the eve of CoP17 the wider conservation community will gather in Hawaii for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, where activists, scientists and leaders from across the globe will debate the planet's most pressing conservation challenges and how to meet them under the theme "Planet at the crossroads".
