Conservation Innovation lab alum Dr. Olivia Davis, along with CBO director Leah Gerber, co-authored two papers published in Conservation Science and Practice this week. The large co-author team is comprised of NGO and conservation practitioners, and they worked with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to develop and a new metric USFWS could use to evaluate species recovery.
The contributed paper, "A new metric for conducting 5-year reviews to evaluate recovery progress under the Endangered Species Act", details the review process using 50 test species, which largely relied on the 3Rs for measurement, while the second paper, "Tracking species recovery status to improve U.S. endangered species act decisions", is a perspectives piece detailing what the authors think some of the findings may mean for the status of listed species overall, as well as their conservation under five-year reviews going forward.
Read the articles:
Tracking species recovery status to improve U.S. endangered species act decisions