The Ecology and Conservation Studies Society Free Public Lecture - "To protect or not to protect? Extinction risk, Red Lists and the agony of choice"
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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“To protect or not to protect? Extinction risk, Red Lists and the agony of choice”
Free public lecture part of the series Red Data Book Species and Conservation
Species conservation is embedded in national and international regulations, but does this achieve good representation of biodiversity? For example, invertebrates are not well catered for, let alone many fungi. Can we conserve the Great Crested Newt by translocation without providing for maintenance of both the ponds and terrestrial habitat that it needs? Or does the protection of species such as the Violet Click-beetle act as a flagship to conserve the whole suite of veteran tree biota? Are Red Data Book species the best indicators or flagships of biodiversity value, or should we rather examine concepts like “ecological engineers”. What of widespread species that may be declining un-noticed? This series examines the questions around the protection of threatened species.
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Ecology and Conservation Studies Society