Targeted Conservation Efforts Help Restore Crashing Biodiversity

A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that with greater resource allocation, conservation can halt and reverse biodiversity loss.

European bison, Bison bonasus, are a conservation success story. (Credit: JMrocek via a Creative Commons license)

The planet is being confronted by a growing biodiversity crisis, with 28% of more than 160,000 assessed species threatened with extinction, and an estimated one million species facing this tragic fate due to human activities. And yet in the face of all this, conservation measures are providing promising results. But which actions make conservation efforts successful? This is the main question that a recent scientific review sought to answer.