A New Approach to Conservation of the Mojave Desert Tortoise

摘要: The Mojave desert tortoise was listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) because of local population declines and an array threats. Challenges to recovery this species include incomplete understanding threats most responsible for its decline, insufficient information on effectiveness management actions, intractability across a large geographical range multiple jurisdictions. Recognition that these challenges require long-term conservation efforts ensure species' persistence—with or without protections ESA—necessitates more structured approach recovery, including broad stakeholder participation. A conservation-reliant perspective will probably be increasingly relevant additional adapting land in face climate change by improving regional coordination activities, broadening spatial temporal points view management, increasing emphasis addressing...