
TY  - JOUR
A1  - F. Recher, Harry 
T1  - Conservation, Natural History and Science: the Challenge too Great, the Time too Short
JF  - Pacific Conservation Biology
JO  - Pac. Conserv. Biol.
Y1  - 2008
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
SP  - 5
EP  - 6
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PC080005 
N2  - 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. 
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