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A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates

Issued Date

2020-09-18

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Article

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15253244
00063568

DOI

10.1093/biosci/biaa082

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2-s2.0-85090308279

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Mahidol University

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Bibliographic Citation

BioScience. Vol.70, No.9 (2020), 794-803

Suggested Citation

Jessica Junker, Silviu O. Petrovan, Victor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Ramesh Boonratana, Dirck Byler, Colin A. Chapman, Dilip Chetry, Susan M. Cheyne, Fanny M. Cornejo, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Guy Cowlishaw, Alec P. Christie, Catherine Crockford, Stella De La Torre, Fabiano R. De Melo, P. Fan, Cyril C. Grueter, Diana C. Guzmán-Caro, Eckhard W. Heymann, Ilka Herbinger, Minh D. Hoang, Robert H. Horwich, Tatyana Humle, Rachel A. Ikemeh, Inaoyom S. Imong, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Steig E. Johnson, Peter M. Kappeler, Maria Cecília M. Kierulff, Inza Koné, Rebecca Kormos, Khac Q. Le, Baoguo Li, Andrew J. Marshall, Erik Meijaard, Russel A. Mittermeier, Yasuyuki Muroyama, Eleonora Neugebauer, Lisa Orth, Erwin Palacios, Sarah K. Papworth, Andrew J. Plumptre, Ben M. Rawson, Johannes Refisch, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Christian Roos, Joanna M. Setchell, Rebecca K. Smith, Tene Sop, Christoph Schwitzer, Kerry Slater, Shirley C. Strum, William J. Sutherland, MaurÍcio Talebi, Janette Wallis, Serge Wich, Elizabeth A. Williamson, Roman M. Wittig, Hjalmar S. Kühl A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates. BioScience. Vol.70, No.9 (2020), 794-803. doi:10.1093/biosci/biaa082 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/59818

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A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates

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Jessica Junker
 Silviu O. Petrovan
 Victor Arroyo-Rodríguez
 Ramesh Boonratana
 Dirck Byler
 Colin A. Chapman
 Dilip Chetry
 Susan M. Cheyne
 Fanny M. Cornejo
 Liliana Cortés-Ortiz
 Guy Cowlishaw
 Alec P. Christie
 Catherine Crockford
 Stella De La Torre
 Fabiano R. De Melo
 P. Fan
 Cyril C. Grueter
 Diana C. Guzmán-Caro
 Eckhard W. Heymann
 Ilka Herbinger
 Minh D. Hoang
 Robert H. Horwich
 Tatyana Humle
 Rachel A. Ikemeh
 Inaoyom S. Imong
 Leandro Jerusalinsky
 Steig E. Johnson
 Peter M. Kappeler
 Maria Cecília M. Kierulff
 Inza Koné
 Rebecca Kormos
 Khac Q. Le
 Baoguo Li
 Andrew J. Marshall
 Erik Meijaard
 Russel A. Mittermeier
 Yasuyuki Muroyama
 Eleonora Neugebauer
 Lisa Orth
 Erwin Palacios
 Sarah K. Papworth
 Andrew J. Plumptre
 Ben M. Rawson
 Johannes Refisch
 Jonah Ratsimbazafy
 Christian Roos
 Joanna M. Setchell
 Rebecca K. Smith
 Tene Sop
 Christoph Schwitzer
 Kerry Slater
 Shirley C. Strum
 William J. Sutherland
 MaurÍcio Talebi
 Janette Wallis
 Serge Wich
 Elizabeth A. Williamson
 Roman M. Wittig
 Hjalmar S. Kühl

Other Contributor(s)

Faculty of Social Sciences
 Faculty of Business Administration
 Borneo Nature Foundation
 Operation Wallacea Ltd.
 Bristol Zoological Society Ltd
 Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservacao da Biodiversidade
 Universidad San Francisco de Quito
 Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques Abidjan
 United Nations Environment Programme
 University of Western Australia
 Universität Göttingen
 University of Cambridge
 The University of Queensland
 University of Oklahoma
 University of California, San Diego
 Liverpool John Moores University
 Stony Brook University
 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 University of Stirling
 University of California, Berkeley
 Durham University
 Sun Yat-Sen University
 Royal Holloway, University of London
 Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo
 Oxford Brookes University
 Universidade Federal de Vicosa
 Mahidol University
 University of KwaZulu-Natal
 Zoological Society of London
 Deutsches Primatenzentrum
 BirdLife International
 Universität Leipzig
 Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad
 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
 McGill University
 University of Calgary
 Northwest University
 Foundation for Sustainability of Ecosystem
 Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica
 Borneo Futures
 Instituto Pri-Matas
 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
 Asociación Primatológica Colombiana
 World Wide Fund for Nature
 Uaso Ngiro Baboon Project
 Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar
 Wildlife Conservation Society-Nigeria
 World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Germany
 Global Wildlife Conservation
 Gibbon Conservation Centre
 Conservación Internacional Colombia
 Community Baboon Sanctuary
 Southern Institute of Ecology
 Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique

Abstract

© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Threats to biodiversity are well documented. However, to effectively conserve species and their habitats, we need to know which conservation interventions do (or do not) work. Evidence-based conservation evaluates interventions within a scientific framework. The Conservation Evidence project has summarized thousands of studies testing conservation interventions and compiled these as synopses for various habitats and taxa. In the present article, we analyzed the interventions assessed in the primate synopsis and compared these with other taxa. We found that despite intensive efforts to study primates and the extensive threats they face, less than 1% of primate studies evaluated conservation effectiveness. The studies often lacked quantitative data, failed to undertake postimplementation monitoring of populations or individuals, or implemented several interventions at once. Furthermore, the studies were biased toward specific taxa, geographic regions, and interventions. We describe barriers for testing primate conservation interventions and propose actions to improve the conservation evidence base to protect this endangered and globally important taxon.

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Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/59818

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