Comments on: Wasting precious money on the conservation-irrelevant

By: CJAB

CJAB — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:26:59 +0000

I wrote about 'triage' specifically here, but I didn't realise Myers might have been the first to coin the term. Many thanks for pointing this out.

By: Alex Diment

Alex Diment — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:14:35 +0000

Looks like Norman Myers first made the link with battlefield triage:

Myers (1983). A priority-ranking strategy for threatened species?
The Environmentalist 3(2) 97-120
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02240157

By: Corey Bradshaw

Corey Bradshaw — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:38:42 +0000

Thank you, Chris. Another one to add to the list. See also BraveNewClimate.com.

Cheers,
CJA Bradshaw

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:07:23 +0000

The ecologists use of (medical) triage ideas has been taken up more recently in the broader climate impacts community. I found a wealth of information at http://www.climatechangetriage.net. I recommend it to you

By: Corey Bradshaw

Corey Bradshaw — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:31:52 +0000

Another great example of potential waste of astronomical proportions - saving a juvenile whale - thankfully averted. I wonder though through the onslaught of ill-deserved media attention (go to Google.com's News section and type 'colin' and 'whale' and you'll see what I mean. Don't journos have anything better to do? More worryingly, why doesn't the 'discerning' television viewing audience demand coverage of more compelling issues?) , how much money was indeed spent on this?

By: Colin the whale » Nature and Animal Conservation » ZooBeat Forums

Colin the whale » Nature and Animal Conservation » ZooBeat Forums — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:54:21 +0000

[...] Personally I think the money it would cost to possibly save it would be much better spent on other conservation programs. No one wants to see it die but in the bigger picture it is the best option. Nature is not kind and possibly the mother abandoned it for a reason. Even if the calf does not have anything wrong with it, it may be its mother with poor mothering instincts. Either way it is likely a benefit not to have this calf’s genes to continue. I think this link is very relevant as it is about the waste of funds to save individual animals instead of habitat or whole populations. Wasting precious money on the conservation-irrelevant ConservationBytes.com [...]

By: Corey Bradshaw

Corey Bradshaw — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:04:59 +0000

See also my coverage of captive breeding in the Toothless (http://coreybradshaw.wordpress.com/toothless/) section of ConservationBytes.com

CJA Bradshaw