Spending to save: What will it cost to halt Australia's extinction crisis?
dc.contributor.author | Wintle, Brendan | |
dc.contributor.author | Cadenhead, Natasha | |
dc.contributor.author | Morgain, Rachel | |
dc.contributor.author | Legge, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.author | Bekessy, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.author | Cantele, Matthew | |
dc.contributor.author | Possingham, Hugh P | |
dc.contributor.author | Watson, James | |
dc.contributor.author | Maron, Martine | |
dc.contributor.author | Keith, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Garnett, Stephen T | |
dc.contributor.author | Woinarski, John C.Z. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lindenmayer, David B | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-26T01:51:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-26T01:51:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-12-27T07:39:10Z | |
dc.description.abstract | As with most governments worldwide, Australian governments list threatened species and proffer commitments to recovering them. Yet most of Australia's imperiled species continue to decline or go extinct and a contributing cause is inadequate investment in conservation management. However, this has been difficult to evaluate because the extent of funding committed to such recovery in Australia, like in many nations, is opaque. Here, by collating disparate published budget figures of Australian governments, we show that annual spending on targeted threatened species recovery is around U.S.$92m (AU$122m) which is around one tenth of that spent by the U.S. endangered species recovery program, and about 15% of what is needed to avoid extinctions and recover threatened species. Our approach to estimating funding needs for species recovery could be applied in any jurisdiction and could be scaled up to calculate what is needed to achieve international goals for ending the species extinction crisis. | en_AU |
dc.description.sponsorship | Australian Research Council grants, Grant/Award Numbers: FL120100108, LP160100439, FT130101225, DP160101397, FT140100516 | en_AU |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 1755-263X | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/266358 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
dc.provenance | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_AU |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_AU |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL120100108 | en_AU |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP160100439 | en_AU |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130101225 | en_AU |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160101397 | en_AU |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT140100516 | en_AU |
dc.rights | © 2019 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | en_AU |
dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution License | en_AU |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_AU |
dc.source | Conservation Letters | en_AU |
dc.subject | budget | en_AU |
dc.subject | costs | en_AU |
dc.subject | Endangered Species Act | en_AU |
dc.subject | funding | en_AU |
dc.subject | government spending | en_AU |
dc.subject | recovery plan | en_AU |
dc.subject | resource allocation | en_AU |
dc.subject | threatened species | en_AU |
dc.subject | transparency | en_AU |
dc.subject | the United States | en_AU |
dc.title | Spending to save: What will it cost to halt Australia's extinction crisis? | en_AU |
dc.type | Journal article | en_AU |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 6 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 7 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Wintle, Brendan, University of Melbourne | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Cadenhead, Natasha, University of Melbourne | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Morgain, Rachel, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Legge, Sarah, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Bekessy, Sarah, RMIT University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Cantele, Matthew, The University of Melbourne | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Possingham, Hugh P, University of Queensland | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Watson, James, The University of Queensland | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Maron, Martine, University of Queensland | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Keith, David, University of New South Wales | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Garnett, Stephen T, Charles Darwin University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Woinarski, John C.Z., Charles Darwin University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Lindenmayer, David, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | u3367467@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Morgain, Rachel, u3367467 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Legge, Sarah, u9411529 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Lindenmayer, David, u8808483 | en_AU |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 140200 - APPLIED ECONOMICS | en_AU |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u5786633xPUB1476 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 12 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1111/conl.12682 | en_AU |
local.identifier.thomsonID | WOS:000494659900001 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u5786633 | en_AU |
local.publisher.url | https://www.wiley.com/en-gb | en_AU |
local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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