Is conservation triage just smart decision making

摘要: Conservation efforts and emergency medicine face comparable problems: how to use scarce resources wisely conserve valuable assets. In both fields, the process of prioritising actions is known as triage. Although often used implicitly by conservation managers, scientists policymakers, triage has been misinterpreted simply deciding which assets (e.g. species, habitats) will not receive investment. As a consequence, sometimes associated with defeatist ethic. However, no more than efficient allocation we risk wasting if do follow its basic principles.