摘要: The prospect of a biodiversity crisis has finally raised international concern. question how to respond poses major challenge biologists. Urgency and the demands practical management call for problem-orientated response. Three priorities areas, identification, safeguarding rescue-and-rehabiliation are singled out as most immediate conservation priorities. Each topic calls development simplifying theories, application criteria methods. Finally, scale urgency big-science approach in which academy sciences could play catalytic role by establishing an commission