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Action Plans: do they help conservation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Philip. J. K. McGowan ,
Peter. J. Garson  and
John. P. Carroll
Philip. J. K. McGowan
Affiliation:
Ecoscope Applied Ecologists, 9 Bennell Court, Comberton, Cambridge CB3 jDS, U.K.
Peter. J. Garson
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NEi 7RU, U.K.
John. P. Carroll
Affiliation:
D. B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2152, U.S.A.
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IUCN (The World Conservation Union) published its first Action Plan more than a decade ago (Oates 1986). Many taxon-specific Specialist Groups working under the auspices of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) have since produced such documents, some of which are now in their second editions (e.g. Reeves and Leatherwood 1994). As we know only too well ourselves, Action Plans take a great deal of time and effort to compile, but what evidence is there to show that they are effective in achieving their prime objective of increasing the amount and quality of work that gets done to save threatened species from extinction?

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Information
Bird Conservation International , Volume 8 , Issue 4: Special Issue: International Galliformes Symposium , December 1998 , pp. 317 - 323
Copyright
Copyright © Birdlife International 1998

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