How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?

• Published in: Conservation letters Vol. 14; no. 1
• Main Authors: Bolam, Friederike C., Mair, Louise, Angelico, Marco, Brooks, Thomas M., Burgman, Mark, Hermes, Claudia, Hoffmann, Michael, Martin, Rob W., McGowan, Philip J.K., Rodrigues, Ana S.L., Rondinini, Carlo, Westrip, James R.S., Wheatley, Hannah, Bedolla‐Guzmán, Yuliana, Calzada, Javier, Child, Matthew F., Cranswick, Peter A., Dickman, Christopher R., Fessl, Birgit, Fisher, Diana O., Garnett, Stephen T., Groombridge, Jim J., Johnson, Christopher N., Kennerley, Rosalind J., King, Sarah R.B., Lamoreux, John F., Lees, Alexander C., Lens, Luc, Mahood, Simon P., Mallon, David P., Meijaard, Erik, Méndez‐Sánchez, Federico, Percequillo, Alexandre Reis, Regan, Tracey J., Renjifo, Luis Miguel, Rivers, Malin C., Roach, Nicolette S., Roxburgh, Lizanne, Safford, Roger J., Salaman, Paul, Squires, Tom, Vázquez‐Domínguez, Ella, Visconti, Piero, Woinarski, John C.Z., Young, Richard P., Butchart, Stuart H.M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.01.2021; Wiley
• Subjects: Agreements; Aichi biodiversity target 12; Biodiversity; Birds; Conservation; Convention on Biological Diversity; Delphi method; Endangered & extinct species; Estimates; expert opinion; Extinct species; Extinction; extinction risk; issues and policy; IUCN Red List; Life Sciences; Mammals; Probability; species conservation; Species extinction; Threatened species; Trends; Wildlife conservation; Aichi biodiversity target 12; species conservation; extinction risk; Convention on Biological Diversity; IUCN Red List; Delphi method

Aichi Target 12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) contains the aim to ‘prevent extinctions of known threatened species’. To measure the degree to which this was achieved, we used expert elicitation to estimate the number of bird and mammal species whose extinctions were prevented by co...