TY - JOUR

T1 - Conserving the World’s Megafauna and Biodiversity

T2 - The Fierce Urgency of Now

AU - Ripple, W.J.

AU - Chapron, Guillaume

AU - López-Bao, José Vicente

AU - Durant, Sarah M.

AU - Macdonald, D.W.

AU - Lindsey, Peter A.

AU - Bennett, Elizabeth L.

AU - Beschta, Robert L.

AU - Bruskotter, Jeremy T.

AU - Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa

AU - Corlett, Richard T.

AU - Darimont, Chris T.

AU - Dickman, Amy J.

AU - Dirzo, Rodolfo

AU - Dublin, Holly T.

AU - Estes, James A.

AU - Everatt, Kristoffer T.

AU - Galetti, Mauro

AU - Goswami, Varun R.

AU - Hayward, Matthew

AU - Hedges, Simon

AU - Hoffmann, Michael

AU - Hunter, Luke T. B.

AU - Kerley, Graham I. H.

AU - Letnic, Mike

AU - Levi, Taal

AU - Maisels, Fiona

AU - Morrison, John C.

AU - Nelson, Michael Paul

AU - Newsome, Thomas M.

AU - Painter, Luke

AU - Pringle, Robert M.

AU - Sandom, Christopher J.

AU - Terborgh, John

AU - Treves, Adrian

AU - Van Valkenburgh, Blaire

AU - Vucetich, John A.

AU - Wirsing, Aaron J.

AU - Wallach, Arian D.

AU - Wolf, Christopher

AU - Woodroffe, Rosie

AU - Young, Hillary

AU - Zhang, L.

PY - 2017/3

Y1 - 2017/3

N2 - In their critique of our call to save the world’s terrestrial megafauna (Ripple et al. 2016), Ford et al. argue that we undermine broader efforts to conserve biodiversity. Their main arguments are that (1) megafauna conservation does not conserve other species; (2) megafauna already receives enough attention; (3) megafauna does not play a compelling enough ecological role to justify increased conservation efforts; (4) megafauna conservation is counterproductive by taking too big a share of conservation resources; and (5) megafauna is less imperiled than other species and over-shadows their declines.Here we acknowledge that all aspects of biodiversity are important and that efforts to conserve megafauna are unlikely to be enough in isolation to conserve all species. We agree with Ford et al. that stronger and varied conservation approaches are necessary to conserve the earth’s biodiversity. However, we deem it necessary to respond to Ford et al.’s critique by highlighting several important factors for consideration

AB - In their critique of our call to save the world’s terrestrial megafauna (Ripple et al. 2016), Ford et al. argue that we undermine broader efforts to conserve biodiversity. Their main arguments are that (1) megafauna conservation does not conserve other species; (2) megafauna already receives enough attention; (3) megafauna does not play a compelling enough ecological role to justify increased conservation efforts; (4) megafauna conservation is counterproductive by taking too big a share of conservation resources; and (5) megafauna is less imperiled than other species and over-shadows their declines.Here we acknowledge that all aspects of biodiversity are important and that efforts to conserve megafauna are unlikely to be enough in isolation to conserve all species. We agree with Ford et al. that stronger and varied conservation approaches are necessary to conserve the earth’s biodiversity. However, we deem it necessary to respond to Ford et al.’s critique by highlighting several important factors for consideration

KW - Carnivora

KW - Conservation

KW - Megafauna

M3 - Article

VL - 67

SP - 197

EP - 200

JO - BioScience

JF - BioScience

SN - 1525-3244

IS - 3

ER -