
%0 Journal Article
%A L. Mack, Andrew 
%A D. Wright, Debra 
%A Ross Sinclair, J. 
%A Gamui, Banak 
%T Should there be efforts to establish two Australasian conservation biology societies?
%J Pacific Conservation Biology
%D 2002/03/10
%V 8
%N 1
%P 2-2
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PC020002
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PC020002 
%X In a recent editorial, H. Recher presents some history on why there is not currently an Australasian conservation biology society. He asserts that a motion to create such a society was abandoned because the Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) and the Australian Institute of Biology (AlB) promised to assume greater roles in conservation biology and obviated the need for a separate society, but that these organizations have not fulfilled this promise. The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) has initiated a drive to develop a regional Australasian chapter and Recher raises the question: "is it better to form an independent body, or will an Australasian branch of the SCB fill the advocacy void left empty in 1993?" This is a fair question. 
