"We are trying to stop the problem from getting worse," said William A. Jacobs, a conservation project director and invasive species expert for the Nature Conservancy.
"Thankfully, it sounds like the people who purchase these windows or other objects really love and care for them, and the works don't fall into disrepair beyond the point of conservation, or worse, get stolen," Lindsy Parrott, the director of the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in Long Island City, Queens, said in an e-mail.
In spite of huge efforts, nature and the beauty of the wider countryside are in a worse state than when the conservation movement set out to protect them.
Respondents are willing to trade off between 100 farmers worse off due to biodiversity conservation activities and 2.67 % extra healthy vegetation or an increase in 6.8 numbers of mammal species.
In fact, the JSD results using probabilities predicted by evolutionary conservation were significantly worse than those reported here (not shown).
Yet taxonomic inflation caused by elevation of populations to species level based on mtDNA data is surely a worse problem for taxonomy and conservation than difficulties at the subspecies level [ 54].
That has not happened, but the bad news about biodiversity would be worse if it were not for conservation.
All the other surviving subspecies are listed by the IUCN as at least "Vulnerable" in conservation status, if not worse.
Worse still, few of the project's conservation recommendations have come to pass.
But commercial collection for the ornamental trade is probably a worse problem, said Dr. Callum Roberts, a marine conservation biologist at the University of York in Britain and the third author of the letter.
