Baraza

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jul 18 2008 | By: baraza

While in Chattanooga things weren’t all boring, I met someone who’se name I’d only ever associated with the text books, William (Bill) Sutherland famed for his techniques books like Bird ecology and The Conservation Handbook. He’s pretty well respected in the field and is compiling a list of the 100 key questions about conservation. These questions will be compiled and used to guide British conservation policy in the next 5 years (this will affect where research will be focussed, what issues will be prioritised etc).

Lets help him! Just ASK the questions. Post your questions here and I’ll send them on to him over the next 2 days.

Here are my top questions

1. How effectively is conservation funding achieving it’s  goals -

2. Where is conservation funding going vs where  the endangered species are? And, how much money is spent on research vs conservation.

3. Why isn’t there a conservation movement in the tropics driven by locals if this is where the worlds biodiversity resides? (ie. why are the top conservationists in Africa, Asia and latin America not natives from these regions? what is holding back the locals?)

4. How does  global heritage site status (like the Virungas) help species in places like the Virungas? Does the world really care?

5. Do trans boundary and peace parks work - if so how can we replicate it and make conservation non - political

6. How is globalization affecting our war on the international illegal trade in species?

7. How can we measure the impact of he G8 policies on conservation - do the millenium goals conflict with each other

8. What is of greater value, species or species functions? Can species functions be replaced by introductions? Should we care about exotics if they are replacing  functions? (e.g primary producers and scavengers, etc)

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