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Should we be trying to save the dodo?

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A quantitative way to decide whether to keep on conserving a species.

Declaring a species extinct and so not worthy of conservation money is not a trivial matter. It's a decision that scientists working for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have to make when drawing up their Red List of Threatened Species, for example. Now, a team of Australian researchers are trying to bring a more rigorous approach to this area with the help of the dodo.

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  1. Rout, T. M., Heinze, D. & McCarthy, M. A. Conserv. Biol. advance online publication doi:10.111/j.1523-1739.2010.01461.x (2010).

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  1. Daniel Cressey
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Cressey, D. Should we be trying to save the dodo?. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.120

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