Conservation Biology in Action: Case Studies
Richard Primack, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003655
Abstract
Conservation biology is a crisis discipline focused on protecting the biological diversity of our world. The field endeavours
not only to study biological diversity, but more importantly, to take action – tailored to the threats faced by species and
ecosystems, and to local circumstances – that will halt or reverse environmental destruction.
Keywords: biological diversity; activism; environmentalism; protected areas; resolution; butterflies; macaws
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