
%0 Journal Article
%A F. Recher, Harry 
%T Conservation, Natural History and Science: the Challenge too Great, the Time too Short
%J Pacific Conservation Biology
%D 2008/03/10
%V 14
%N 1
%P 5-6
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PC080005
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PC080005 
%X Good conservation is sound management based on good science and a thorough understanding of the natural history of the organisms and systems being managed. Even doing nothing, as some advocate for wilderness, is a management decision and one which should have its foundations in science and natural history. This idea that conservation management should have a strong scientific and natural history basis is a recurrent theme of Duffy and Kraus (2008) in their analysis of conservation management in Hawaii. It is a theme that I cannot disagree with, nor can I disagree with Duffy and Kraus when they argue that natural history knowledge is not appreciated and that there is a failure to include scientific knowledge in management decisions. I don?t have to live and work in Hawaii to reach this view; not much is different in Australia. 
