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Conservation in Austral and Neotropical America: Building Scientific Capacity Equal to the Challenges

Conservation in Austral and Neotropical America: Building Scientific Capacity Equal to the... Introduction Austral and Neotropical America (ANA), which extends from Mexico to Argentina and Chile and includes the Caribbean, is often presented in the conservation literature as a biologically rich region, lacking in financial and technical resources for achieving biodiversity conservation (e.g., Toledo & Castillo 1999 ; Galindo‐Leal 2002 ; Rodríguez 2003 ). This is part of a larger problem that also characterizes other tropical regions ( Bonine et al. 2003 ). The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) is taking concrete steps to improve technical conservation capacity worldwide and has selected “Conservation Biology Capacity Building and Practice in a Globalized World” as the theme for their nineteenth annual meeting, to be held in Brasília, Brazil, 15–19 July 2005 ( http://www.conbio.org /2005). In order to be able to successfully address the problem of conservation capacity building in the region, it is necessary to first estimate the scale of the financial resources required to move forward. Available information to date is qualitative and anecdotal. We focused on academic training opportunities in ANA countries, quantified a series of conservation capacity indicators in the region, and contrasted them with similar figures calculated for the United States, where conservation capacity building is well developed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Conservation Biology Wiley

Conservation in Austral and Neotropical America: Building Scientific Capacity Equal to the Challenges

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0888-8892
eISSN
1523-1739
DOI
10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00555.x
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Abstract

Introduction Austral and Neotropical America (ANA), which extends from Mexico to Argentina and Chile and includes the Caribbean, is often presented in the conservation literature as a biologically rich region, lacking in financial and technical resources for achieving biodiversity conservation (e.g., Toledo & Castillo 1999 ; Galindo‐Leal 2002 ; Rodríguez 2003 ). This is part of a larger problem that also characterizes other tropical regions ( Bonine et al. 2003 ). The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) is taking concrete steps to improve technical conservation capacity worldwide and has selected “Conservation Biology Capacity Building and Practice in a Globalized World” as the theme for their nineteenth annual meeting, to be held in Brasília, Brazil, 15–19 July 2005 ( http://www.conbio.org /2005). In order to be able to successfully address the problem of conservation capacity building in the region, it is necessary to first estimate the scale of the financial resources required to move forward. Available information to date is qualitative and anecdotal. We focused on academic training opportunities in ANA countries, quantified a series of conservation capacity indicators in the region, and contrasted them with similar figures calculated for the United States, where conservation capacity building is well developed.

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Conservation BiologyWiley

Published: Jun 1, 2005

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