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Retos de Conservación para la Sección América Austral y Neotropical
Author(s) -
CEBALLOS GERARDO,
VALE MARIANA M.,
BONACIC CRISTIAN,
CALVOALVARADO JULIO,
LIST RURIK,
BYNUM NORA,
MEDELLÍN RODRIGO A.,
SIMONETTI JAVIER A.,
RODRÍGUEZ JON PAUL
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
conservation biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.2
H-Index - 222
eISSN - 1523-1739
pISSN - 0888-8892
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01286.x
Subject(s) - deforestation (computer science) , biodiversity , geography , conservation biology , biodiversity conservation , natural resource , section (typography) , resource (disambiguation) , ecosystem , environmental degradation , ecology , environmental resource management , environmental protection , business , biology , environmental science , computer network , computer science , advertising , programming language
The Austral and Neotropical America (ANA) section of the Society for Conservation Biology includes a vast territory with some of the largest relatively pristine ecosystems in the world. With more than 573 million people, the economic growth of the region still depends strongly on natural resource exploitation and still has high rates of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. A survey among the ANA section membership, with more than 700 members, including most of the section's prominent ecologists and conservationists, indicates that lack of capacity building for conservation, corruption, and threats such as deforestation and illegal trade of species, are among the most urgent problems that need to be addressed to improve conservation in the region. There are, however, strong universities and ecology groups taking the lead in environmental research and conservation, a most important issue to enhance the ability of the region to solve conservation and development conflicts .