Applying Science to Pressing Conservation Needs for Penguins

BOERSMA, DEE; BOST, CHARLES; SCHNEIDER, THOMAS; TRATHAN, PHIL; GOWNARIS, NATASHA; ELLIS, SUSAN; SIMEONE, ALEJANDRO; WIENECKE, BARBARA; GARCIA BORBOROGLU, P.; CHIARADIA, ANDRE; SEDDON, PHIL; WALLER, LAUREN

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2019

0888-8892

The International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) Specialist Groups consist of members that represent the highest level of scientific rigor and expertise regarding the conservation of the species within their purview (IUCN 2017). The IUCN SSC Penguin Specialist Group (PSG) Steering Committee (Supporting Information 1) held a 2-day conservation strategy workshop to: 1) develop a consensus on the penguin species of most immediate conservation concern and 2) prioritize gaps in penguin research and conservation. Workshop attendees represented eight countries and a broad expertise on penguins (Supporting Information 1), having also consulted with and/or drawn from the expertise and published work regarding the species they represented. The goal of these intensive discussions and structured ranking processes was to foster conservation action on behalf of penguins as a taxon, recognizing that a lack of consensus among scientists on priorities and approaches can impede conservation (e.g. in the case of African penguin Spheniscus demersus: Holcombe 2015).