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{"title":"Resilience underground: Understanding earthworm biomass responses to land use changes in the tropics","authors":"Badrul Azhar ,&nbsp;Peter van der Meer ,&nbsp;Rutger F. Sterenborg ,&nbsp;Muhammad Syafiq Yahya ,&nbsp;Norhisham Razi ,&nbsp;Maisarah Burhanuddin ,&nbsp;Jasmijn Rookmaker ,&nbsp;Nur Syarihah Sahimi ,&nbsp;Welmoed van der Pal ,&nbsp;Frisco Nobilly ,&nbsp;Siti Aisyah Mohd Azam ,&nbsp;Meriam Ubachs ,&nbsp;Muhammad Izzuddin Syakir ,&nbsp;Wan Mamat Wan Zaki ,&nbsp;Nurin Athilah Zulkipli ,&nbsp;Aslinda Oon","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110800","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110800","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Soil biodiversity, like terrestrial biodiversity, is currently under threat by changes in land use. Intensively managed farming activities with agrochemicals have degraded both soil biodiversity and health. However, little is known about how these changes in land use affect the distribution of earthworm biomass in Southeast Asia. We conducted earthworm sampling across multiple habitats, including lowland forests, exotic monoculture plantations (e.g., oil palm and rubber tree), and agroforestry orchards. To survey earthworm populations, we excavated the top 30 cm of soil at 18 sites encompassing 399 plots distributed across natural and human-modified ecosystems in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, Peninsular Malaysia. We found that earthworm abundance was negatively related to increasing soil compaction, leaf litter weight, soil pH, and undergrowth height, whereas it was positively associated with increasing undergrowth and canopy cover. Our findings demonstrated that agroforestry orchards, rubber tree plantations, and mature oil palm plantations had higher earthworm abundance than those in logged lowland forests. Earthworm abundance in unlogged lowland forests and young oil palm plantations, on the other hand, was lower than in logged lowland forests. Overall earthworm weight was greater in rubber tree plantations, agroforestry orchards, mature oil palm plantations, and unlogged lowland forests than those in logged lowland forests, while young oil palm plantations exhibited lower earthworm weight than logged lowland forests. Our data indicate that increases in soil compaction and leaf litter weight were associated with decreased earthworm weight. These results demonstrate the importance of site-level habitat management for maintaining healthy earthworm populations and soil biodiversity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110800"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prioritizing wildlife conservation along habitat gradients in Sumatra","authors":"Iding A. Haidir ,&nbsp;Oliver R. Wearn ,&nbsp;Nicolas J. Deere ,&nbsp;Matthew J. Struebig ,&nbsp;Alue Dohong ,&nbsp;David W. Macdonald ,&nbsp;Matthew Linkie","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110795","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110795","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Managing protected areas (PAs) requires measurable indicators to assess effectiveness. The status of populations and guilds of multiple species are potential indicators that should be useful in biodiversity-rich tropical countries. We quantified such indicators using data from an intensive camera trap survey of seven sites at the forest-farmland interface of Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Surveys between 2014 and 2016 covered 671 camera locations set along habitat gradients comprising primary to degraded forest and lowland to sub-montane forest. We ran Bayesian multi-species occupancy models that incorporated landscape covariates and patrol intensity to generate four population parameters: relative abundance, probability of habitat use, species richness and detection probability. Model-derived beta coefficients summarized at the guild-level were extrapolated using detailed spatially-explicit data on landscape covariates to produce multi-guild occurrence maps to explore the role of habitats in supporting multiple overlapping functional groups. From 55,856 trap nights, we recorded 33 species from six guilds: carnivores; frugivores; granivores; herbivores; insectivores; and omnivores. All guilds were negatively correlated with elevation and positively correlated with primary forest. Five areas with high multi-guild overlap were identified and recommended for increased protection and other conservation measures, such as increasing the frequency of SMART patrols. Our data-driven guild-level approach for improving conservation practice has high relevance to other biodiversity-rich countries. Further utility of this guild approach, with potential future refinement and improvement, should greatly assist PA managers with improving area-based conservation effectiveness, such as higher patrol frequencies and or prioritizing wildlife, and habitat and ecosystem inventory, under-pinned by enhanced research, and cost-efficient budget allocation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110795"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Get them off the deck: Straightforward interventions increase post-release survival rates of manta and devil rays in tuna purse seine fisheries","authors":"Joshua D. Stewart ,&nbsp;Melissa R. Cronin ,&nbsp;Erick Largacha ,&nbsp;Nerea Lezama-Ochoa ,&nbsp;Jon Lopez ,&nbsp;Martin Hall ,&nbsp;Melanie Hutchinson ,&nbsp;Emma G. Jones ,&nbsp;Malcolm Francis ,&nbsp;Maitane Grande ,&nbsp;Jefferson Murua ,&nbsp;Vanessa Rojo ,&nbsp;Salvador J. Jorgensen","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110794","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110794","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bycatch remains a major challenge in commercial fisheries, with large numbers of threatened species impacted by incidental capture. One of the most vulnerable bycatch groups in global tuna fisheries are the manta and devil rays (mobulids), which have experienced significant population declines in response to both targeted and incidental capture. The retention of mobulids has been banned by many countries and Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs), but major knowledge gaps exist in the group's survival rates following release after incidental capture. Mobulids are accidentally captured in purse seine fisheries, and in recent years, many RFMOs have mandated handling and release procedures for mobulids in an effort to maximize survivorship and reduce impacts of fishery bycatch. We synthesize data from four empirical studies using satellite tags (<em>n</em> = 89) to estimate survival rates of four species of mobulids (<em>Mobula birostris</em>, <em>M. mobular</em>, <em>M. tarapacana</em> and <em>M. thurstoni</em>) released from tuna purse seine vessels in three global regions. We directly estimate the effects of intrinsic, environmental, and operational factors, and handling and release methods on mobulid survival rates. We found a significant negative effect of time spent on deck; likely negative effects of the brailer number in which a ray was brought out of the sacked net, and remaining in the sacked purse seine net until after brailing was complete; and likely positive effects of being captured in a floating object set and body size on survival probability. The observed survival rates of mobulids with known fates were 50 % for <em>M. birostris</em>, 74.2 % for <em>M. mobular</em>, 33.3 % for <em>M. tarapacana</em>, and 20 % for. <em>M thurstoni</em>. The median predicted survival probability under optimal handling conditions was 83.7 % for <em>M. birostris</em>, 95.3 % for <em>M. mobular</em>, 82.2 % for <em>M. tarapacana</em>, and 53.7 % for <em>M. thurstoni</em>. These empirical estimates can improve handling methods and vulnerability assessments of these endangered species in global fisheries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110794"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human-connected wild lands: How network analysis can inform invasive species management","authors":"Tobias Schwoerer ,&nbsp;Jennifer I. Schmidt ,&nbsp;Tammy J. Davis ,&nbsp;Aaron E. Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110797","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110797","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wild landscapes are critical strongholds for biodiversity, yet even in the remotest parts of the globe, increasing human use and development are leading to an influx of biodiversity threats including invasive species. Natural resource management agencies, and those that rely on public lands, need a better understanding of the long-distance dispersal pathways in which invasive species are introduced to remote locations. Pathway information is essential for targeting prevention and early detection across vast landscapes, but it is often challenged by information gaps and high surveillance costs. Data-driven approaches centered around a participating public can help resource managers and biosecurity professionals to better prioritize prevention and early detection activities to minimize incipient and secondary invasions. This study employed surveys with resource users to integrate and analyze multiple human-mediated dispersal networks for aquatic invasive species (AIS) across Alaska's part of the North American Boreal Forest. Specifically, it applied network analysis to further inform management priorities that so far were only based on a single pathway and different metrics. Results underline the vulnerability of remote wild freshwater systems to the introduction of AIS and provide a waterbody-specific tool for prioritizing monitoring and inform pathway-specific interventions that were unavailable through past research. The study compares the prioritization of waterbodies under newly derived network topology metrics accounting for multiple generic pathways with the existing single- species and single-pathway prediction model. Advantages of a more comprehensive multi-pathway network topology are discussed in the context of various invasion stages, multiple invasive taxa, and resource constraint conservation management systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110797"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142320366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya","authors":"Jenis Patel ,&nbsp;Munib Khanyari ,&nbsp;Rumaan Malhotra ,&nbsp;Udayan Rao Pawar ,&nbsp;Ajay Bijoor ,&nbsp;Deepshikha Sharma ,&nbsp;Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110793","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110793","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Harnessing green energy from sources like the sun is important to meet increasing global energy demands while reducing dependence on fossil fuel and mitigating climate change. However, the potential negative effects of green energy, especially concerning local biodiversity, are frequently overlooked. We use a case study from Trans-Himalayan India to discuss how green energy development, in our case proposed large-scale solar parks containing 13 solar sites, can be reconciled with wildlife conservation. We use detection-non-detection data for snow leopards with bioclimatic covariates using single-season single-species occupancy model to build a habitat suitability model. We prioritise development scenarios, to ensure the aim of snow leopard conservation, by operationalizing the step-wise (avoid&gt;minimise&gt;remediate&gt;offset) Mitigation Hierarchy (MH). All of the 13 proposed solar plant sites fall within areas of high snow leopard suitability (&gt;0.5). Applying the sequential MH framework, to “avoid” any impact would require either complete halt of all construction of the solar parks, or identifying alternative sites where the suitability for snow leopards is lower. However, collaborative planning is needed to fully implement this framework such that both objectives - solar energy generation and snow leopard conservation - can be optimally decided. We acknowledge that such decisions need integration of local people's perspective, which needs further elucidation. We advocate for a nuanced, data-driven, approach to reconcile conservation aims with development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110793"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142314887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration dominated vegetation dynamics during the 1980s-2010s in Yunnan, China","authors":"Mingjian Xiahou ,&nbsp;Zehao Shen ,&nbsp;Tao Yang ,&nbsp;Jianghua Duan ,&nbsp;Mingchun Peng ,&nbsp;Chongyun Wang ,&nbsp;Xiaokun Ou","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110798","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110798","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Changes in both vegetation type and productivity can affect the structure, functioning, and services of terrestrial ecosystems. Understanding vegetation dynamics and their drivers is critical for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. Although land cover datasets, climate-vegetation models, and remote sensing vegetation indices have been frequently used to reflect vegetation dynamics, they generally lack biological information about vegetation, such as species compositions, community structures, and succession status. Yunnan, recognized as the most biodiverse province in China, has undergone considerable vegetation changes over recent decades. However, the roles of climate change and human activities remain unclear. This study integrated detailed vegetation maps, climate factors, and vegetation indices obtained in the 1980s (1986–1995) and 2010s (2006–2015) to comprehensively evaluate the coverage transformations and productivity changes of vegetation types in Yunnan and unravel the drivers of decadal vegetation changes. The results indicated that: 1) A greening trend was observed across all vegetation types, particularly in coniferous and temperate forests. 2) The decadal vegetation changes were dominated by: the restoration of savanna and shrubland, cropland expansion, and artificial afforestation, accounting for 23.7 %, 22.9 %, and 19.1 % of all observed changes, respectively. 3) Conservation and restoration efforts dominated vegetation greening in Yunnan (55 %), followed by artificial afforestation (23 %), and agricultural expansion (16 %). By comparing vegetation maps of separated stages, the inclusion of vegetation class information provided critical knowledge for a better understanding of the intrinsic mechanisms behind vegetation greening and range shifting. Our study highlighted the significant role of ecological conservation and restoration policies and practices in influencing the spatiotemporal dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at a regional scale, within merely a few decades.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110798"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Successful post-translocation reproduction and genetic integration of eastern box turtles","authors":"Ryan J. Rimple ,&nbsp;Brian M. Shamblin ,&nbsp;Kurt A. Buhlmann ,&nbsp;Olin E. Rhodes Jr. ,&nbsp;Michel T. Kohl ,&nbsp;Tracey D. Tuberville","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110796","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110796","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Translocation is a conservation tool increasingly used in the recovery of at-risk species, including turtles, which are one of the world's most imperiled taxa. Post-release monitoring is essential to determine the outcomes of a given intervention and inform future efforts. However, monitoring typically focuses on post-release survival and spatial ecology whereas few studies assess the genetic and demographic outcomes. The eastern box turtle (<em>Terrapene carolina carolina</em>) is in decline throughout its range and is increasingly likely to be subject to translocations, including efforts to repatriate animals confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade. In 2019–2021, we translocated two groups of box turtles to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, USA, including confiscated turtles (n = 208) and surrendered long-term captive turtles (LTC; n = 35). In 2022, we monitored a subset of confiscated (n = 12), LTC (n = 15), and sympatric resident (n = 8) females for reproductive output and genotyped their offspring and candidate sires to assign parentage. We found that all groups of females produced eggs at a similar rate and produced viable offspring but that the most recently translocated group (LTCs) displayed lower hatching success. Parentage assignment revealed that all groups sired offspring and mated with each other. Our results broadly indicate that confiscated and LTC box turtles can successfully reproduce and genetically integrate following their release into wild populations, and that translocation may serve as a valuable tool for local population recovery.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110796"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the potential role of different land covers for conserving threatened amphibian diversity in a human-modified tropical mountain landscape","authors":"María Chanel Juárez-Ramírez ,&nbsp;Andrés Lira-Noriega ,&nbsp;Robert H. Manson ,&nbsp;Javier Nori ,&nbsp;Eduardo Pineda","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110790","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110790","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We evaluated the potential role of old-growth forests (&gt;100 years), secondary forests of two different ages (35–40 years and 15–20 years, respectively), shaded coffee polycultures, and cattle pastures for conserving amphibian diversity, particularly threatened species, in a human-modified landscape originally covered by cloud forest. In 2017, we sampled 9000 m² of each of these five habitats and recorded a total of 681 amphibians belonging to 14 species, six of which were threatened. When all species were considered, there were no significant differences in species richness between studied land covers. However, considering only threatened species revealed a monotonic decrease in species number from old-growth forests (where all threatened species were recorded) to cattle pastures (where only one threatened species was observed). Additionally, the most threatened species (critically endangered and endangered) were only recorded in old-growth forest and older secondary forest. Assemblage structure and species composition of threatened species were most similar between the two types of secondary forests, followed by the old-growth forest. Tree density, herbaceous cover, and leaf-litter depth were the variables best explaining observed patterns of overall amphibian diversity. These findings suggest that the protection of old-growth forest fragments is essential for conserving threatened amphibian species, especially salamanders, in highly modified landscapes, and that conserving or promoting secondary forests could also facilitate the recovery of this threatened biota. Shade coffee plantations seem to have a very limited role for threatened amphibian species, while cattle pastures play no role in conserving these species.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110790"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating multi-objective optimization and ecological connectivity to strengthen Peru's protected area system towards the 30*2030 target","authors":"Hugo Deléglise ,&nbsp;Dimitri Justeau-Allaire ,&nbsp;Mark Mulligan ,&nbsp;Jhan-Carlo Espinoza ,&nbsp;Emiliana Isasi-Catalá ,&nbsp;Cecilia Alvarez ,&nbsp;Thomas Condom ,&nbsp;Ignacio Palomo","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110799","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110799","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity has set the target of protecting 30 % of the world's land and sea by 2030. Previous conservation planning approaches have been based primarily on biodiversity elements, particularly for Peru, a mega-biodiverse country whose protected areas network need to be expanded. However, achieving this ambitious 30 % target requires careful consideration of numerous ecological and social aspects. To cover these aspects, we present a terrestrial conservation planning approach that integrates biodiversity, ecosystem services, human impact, ecological connectivity and ecoregional representativeness. Our approach has been co-produced with national organisations and NGOs and includes advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods. Our results identify areas of high ecological value to supplement the 17.88 % of areas already protected, to reach 30 %. The integration of these areas could close gaps in the current system, particularly those vital for water related ecosystem services, ecoregional representativity and ecological connectivity. Integrated AI-based optimization methods (i.e., integer linear programming, constraint programming, reference point method) enabled us to obtain optimal, constraint-satisfying and balanced protected areas selected on the basis of integrated variables, and constitute a robust alternative compared with heuristic methods (e.g., Marxan, Zonation) commonly used. This work can be used as a fundamental component of Peru's territorial planning, and paves the way on future research on conservation planning, which should integrate advanced spatial conservation planning methods, ecological and social factors in an even more comprehensive way.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110799"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation","authors":"Tristan Katz","doi":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110791","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110791","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Compassionate conservation is an ethical framework proposed to instill greater compassion for individual animals in conservation science and practice. In addition to highlighting compassion as a virtue, compassionate conservationists propose four ethical principles (<em>first do no harm</em>, <em>individuals matter</em>, <em>inclusivity</em>, and <em>peaceful coexistence</em>) to capture what it means to act compassionately in conservation. In this paper I argue for a revision of this framework. I begin by showing how compassionate conservationists also implicitly promote the virtue of respect, which better accounts for the principles <em>individuals matter</em> and <em>inclusivity</em>, yet entails a further principle: <em>respect for autonomy</em>. I further suggest that, to reflect genuine compassion for wild animals, the principles <em>first</em>, <em>do no harm</em> and <em>peaceful coexistence</em> should be replaced by <em>empathy</em>, <em>understanding</em>, and <em>minimize harm</em>. In the second half of the paper, I discuss the implications of this revised framework. I argue that, due to the prevalence of suffering even in well-conserved ecosystems, compassion and respect motivate a more active management of natural environments in order to reduce the harms (natural and anthropogenic) that wild animals face. This reveals a greater need for discussions on how to balance the flourishing of wild animals against the preservation of biodiversity, as well as a need to identify new approaches to conservation which better promote both ends.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55375,"journal":{"name":"Biological Conservation","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 110791"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320724003537/pdfft?md5=0b146ebd91d7d445c56a73ddd1b97811&pid=1-s2.0-S0006320724003537-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}