عنوان

Gaps and mismatches between global conservation priorities and spending

Number

LA7t24t3r3

Title Proper

Gaps and mismatches between global conservation priorities and spending

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Halpern, Benjamin S; Pyke, C R; Fox, H E; Haney, J C; Schlaepfer, M A; Zaradic, P

Text of Note

Several international conservation organizations have recently produced global priority maps to guide conservation activities and spending in their own and other conservation organizations. Surprisingly, it is not possible to directly evaluate the relationship between priorities and spending within a given organization because none of the organizations with global priority models tracks how they spend their money relative to their priorities. We were able, however, to evaluate the spending patterns of five other large biodiversity conservation organizations without their own published global priority models and investigate the potential influence of priority models on this spending. On average, countries with priority areas received greater conservation investment; global prioritization systems, however, explained between only 2 and 32% of the US

Date of Publication

2006

Title

UC Santa Barbara

Electronic name

[Article]

275578

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