2021
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.510
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Conservation actions benefit the most threatened species: A 13‐year assessment of Alliance for Zero Extinction species

Abstract: More species in the world are threatened with extinction today than at any other time in recent history. In 2005, the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE; https:// zeroextinction.org/) released its first inventory of highly threatened species (i.e., those listed as Critically Endangered or Endangered on the IUCN Red List) that are effectively confined to a single site. Updates were released in 2010 and 2018. Here we identify the species removed from the list in these updates, determine the reasons for these remo… Show more

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“…Our inventory of endemic species will help support the ongoing efforts of the Canadian KBA Coalition to identify important sites for biodiversity conservation. Recognizing and promoting the global importance of these sites is critical for the survival of threatened species and will encourage conservation action (Luther et al, 2021).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our inventory of endemic species will help support the ongoing efforts of the Canadian KBA Coalition to identify important sites for biodiversity conservation. Recognizing and promoting the global importance of these sites is critical for the survival of threatened species and will encourage conservation action (Luther et al, 2021).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To assess the performance of the PD-maximizing and EDGE strategies for capturing threatened species recorded in utilization categories, we generated distributions of species captured at the same sample sizes for comparison, under two alternative sampling strategies. First, we generated a distribution of 1000 sets of threatened species for each sample size, whereby the probability of a species being selected for conservation was weighted by their IUCN Red List category (i.e., species in more severe extinction risk categories had a higher probability of being selected, with weightings following the IUCN Red List Index weightings of categories: VU = 2, EN = 3, CR = 4, EW = 5), hereafter referred to as the “RL-weighted” strategy, under the assumption that species with higher risk of extinction are more likely to receive conservation action ( 60 ).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Preventing the extinction of threatened species could be accomplished by identifying and conserving key sites that contain at least 1 critically endangered or endangered species, which the Alliance for Zero Extinction does. Conserving such sites can effectively halt extinction (Luther et al., 2021; Ricketts et al., 2005).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%