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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages 649-654Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.007
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- Applied Environmental Decision Analysis (AEDA) Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia
- Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility Programme
- Australian Research Council
- eWater CRC
- Landcare Research
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Conservation efforts and emergency medicine face comparable problems: how to use scarce resources wisely to conserve valuable assets. In both fields, the process of prioritising actions is known as triage. Although often used implicitly by conservation managers, scientists and policymakers, triage has been misinterpreted as the process of simply deciding which assets (e.g. species, habitats) will not receive investment. As a consequence, triage is sometimes associated with a defeatist conservation ethic. However, triage is no more than the efficient allocation of conservation resources and we risk wasting scarce resources if we do not follow its basic principles.
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