Havens are a pathway, not an endpoint, for species recovery: a response to Woinarski et al. (2023)

John L. Read; Kev Bradley; Iain J. Gordon; Adrian D. Manning; Linda E. Neaves; April E. Reside; Kiarrah J. Smith; Rick Southgate; Adrian F. Wayne; Andrew R. Weeks; Belinda A. Wilson; Katherine E. Moseby

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110212

Havens are a pathway, not an endpoint, for species recovery: a response to Woinarski et al. (2023)

John L. Read^*, Kev Bradley, Iain J. Gordon, Adrian D. Manning, Linda E. Neaves, April E. Reside, Kiarrah J. Smith, Rick Southgate, Adrian F. Wayne, Andrew R. Weeks, Belinda A. Wilson, Katherine E. Moseby

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Conservation status assessments under the Australian Government's environmental legislation (the EPBC Act, 1999, henceforth ‘the Act’) are valuable for acknowledging management successes and de-listing species that have genuinely recovered in the wild. In keeping with this objective, Woinarski et al. (2023) argued that 12 Australian mammals no longer met the criteria for threatened status, based in part on their reintroductions into conservation-fenced ‘havens’. Our concern is that delisting species based on their haven populations could have unintended detrimental outcomes due to reduced protection of refugial populations.

Original language	English
Article number	110212
Number of pages	2
Journal	Biological Conservation
Volume	285
Early online date	5 Aug 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110212
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

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Read, J. L., Bradley, K., Gordon, I. J., Manning, A. D., Neaves, L. E., Reside, A. E., Smith, K. J., Southgate, R., Wayne, A. F., Weeks, A. R., Wilson, B. A., & Moseby, K. E. (2023). Havens are a pathway, not an endpoint, for species recovery: a response to Woinarski et al. (2023). Biological Conservation, 285, Article 110212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110212

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