Spending to save: What will it cost to halt Australia's extinction crisis?

dc.contributor.authorWintle, Brendan
dc.contributor.authorCadenhead, Natasha
dc.contributor.authorMorgain, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorLegge, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorBekessy, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorCantele, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorPossingham, Hugh P
dc.contributor.authorWatson, James
dc.contributor.authorMaron, Martine
dc.contributor.authorKeith, David
dc.contributor.authorGarnett, Stephen T
dc.contributor.authorWoinarski, John C.Z.
dc.contributor.authorLindenmayer, David B
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-26T01:51:07Z
dc.date.available2022-05-26T01:51:07Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:39:10Z
dc.description.abstractAs 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.sponsorshipAustralian Research Council grants, Grant/Award Numbers: FL120100108, LP160100439, FT130101225, DP160101397, FT140100516en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1755-263Xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/266358
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceThis 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.publisherWileyen_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL120100108en_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP160100439en_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130101225en_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160101397en_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT140100516en_AU
dc.rights© 2019 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.en_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution Licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceConservation Lettersen_AU
dc.subjectbudgeten_AU
dc.subjectcostsen_AU
dc.subjectEndangered Species Acten_AU
dc.subjectfundingen_AU
dc.subjectgovernment spendingen_AU
dc.subjectrecovery planen_AU
dc.subjectresource allocationen_AU
dc.subjectthreatened speciesen_AU
dc.subjecttransparencyen_AU
dc.subjectthe United Statesen_AU
dc.titleSpending to save: What will it cost to halt Australia's extinction crisis?en_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue6en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage7en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWintle, Brendan, University of Melbourneen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCadenhead, Natasha, University of Melbourneen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMorgain, Rachel, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLegge, Sarah, College of Science, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBekessy, Sarah, RMIT Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCantele, Matthew, The University of Melbourneen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationPossingham, Hugh P, University of Queenslanden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWatson, James, The University of Queenslanden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMaron, Martine, University of Queenslanden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKeith, David, University of New South Walesen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGarnett, Stephen T, Charles Darwin Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWoinarski, John C.Z., Charles Darwin Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLindenmayer, David, College of Science, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu3367467@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidMorgain, Rachel, u3367467en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidLegge, Sarah, u9411529en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidLindenmayer, David, u8808483en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor140200 - APPLIED ECONOMICSen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5786633xPUB1476en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume12en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1111/conl.12682en_AU
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000494659900001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5786633en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.wiley.com/en-gben_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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