We add 1 to not ignore unconserved sequences: ideally, the conservation should only add information by emphasizing the conserved and hence likely functionally important regions of the regulatory sequence.
There is a prescriptive flavor to this tale, a sense that this is ideally how conservation should be done, never mind the shocking demise of a few benighted, if genuinely threatening Christians.
Ideally, the conservation of one species or ecosystem should not come at the expense of another.
Ideally, analyses of conservation priorities should take into account both within- and between-population genetic variability in order to make more accurate management decisions.
But conservation, while ideally science-based, is not exactly science -- it is a social, economic, and political agenda, and science is just one tool in its shed.
Such restrictions should, ideally, also meet systematic conservation planning criteria of representation and persistence [17].
Asian elephants are endangered [ 51], and neither the wild nor the captive Myanmar populations are self-sustaining [ 52], so if weight does have a strong influence on male elephant mating success, then conservation efforts ideally should be directed towards keeping enough elephants alive until such a time that they are heavy enough to be able to win dominance interactions and attain matings.
Until more is known about how and why cold-water coral populations may be restricted to specific depth zones, the protection of intact habitats over a range of depths, especially <1500 m depth and ideally <200 m, remains a conservation management priority in the deep ocean.
We expect this to help in the development of policies that will transcend individual estuaries and ideally provide more comprehensive actions and conservation outcomes.
In order to include a more complete picture of conservation, the method should ideally be coupled with in situ gap analysis results [e.g. 15], i.e. comparison of distributions with the extent of protected areas.
