Sentence examples for conservation prioritisation from inspiring English sources

Many conservation prioritisation tools exist.

Relative risk and vulnerability were assayed using landscape vulnerability variables, which showed anthropogenic activities were important factors in conservation prioritisation.

Pilot testing in the southern Philippines has demonstrated that the index is an effective and practicable method to identify bat caves for conservation prioritisation.

In this paper, we present the 'Bat Cave Vulnerability Index' (BCVI) as a standard index for evaluating bat caves for conservation prioritisation by determining Biotic Potential (BP) and Biotic Vulnerability (BV) of caves.

We use text mining to analyse 641 peer-reviewed conservation prioritisation articles published between 2006 and 2012 and find that only 10% of articles specifically mention SDMs in the abstract, title, and/or keywords.

To do this we conducted a stakeholder-led spatial conservation prioritisation based on meeting targets for 17 vegetation types and 329 vertebrate species, while minimising opportunity costs for forestry, mining, agriculture and urbanisation.

This means national-scale spatial conservation prioritisations are needed to help meet this target and guide broader conservation and land-use policy development.

We reviewed the peer-reviewed and grey conservation planning literature to explore if and how SDMs are used in conservation prioritisations.

Present shortcomings in the application of marine conservation planning, such as the incompatible spatial scale of many conservation prioritisations, have contributed to misconceptions about the suitability of conservation planning generally and, specifically, its appropriateness in the Coral Triangle.

Temporal-scale mismatches arise where short funding or electoral cycles conflict with long-term planning needs, and there has been a tendency towards funding models that value short-term project outputs, such as the development of conservation prioritisations or plans on paper, over long-term, effectively implemented outcomes (see " Developing better measures of progress and effectiveness").

It is therefore important that conservation and prioritisation agencies in these areas consider the value of habitat mosaics containing even small patches of primary forest vegetation.