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GMA lab and the IUCN Key Biodiversity Areas programme

Want to know more about our contribution to the KBA programme? Here is a recent post by our IUCN colleagues: How ‘key’ should a ‘Key Biodiversity Area’ be?

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Upcoming seminar at the Zoological Society of London

On 10th December 2012, Moreno Di Marco will present some of the GMA current projects during a seminar at ZSL. Mammal species decline: past trend, current challenge, and possible conservation strategies One quarter of all mammal species are today threatened with extinction, with both recent trends and future predictions pointing toward an imminent increase of […]

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Global Mammal Assessment lab @ ECCB 2012 – participation and outcomes!

This year the European Congress on Conservation Biology was held in Glasgow, Scotland (28 August – 1 September). GMA lab members participated with enthusiasm, 9 people from the lab were present, all of them co-authoring one or more contributions. A summary of all GMA lab contributions includes: 2 Posters: Pacifici M. et al., Ranc N. […]

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Extinction Risk reduction Opportunity

Our recent paper on global mammal extinction risk reduction has just been published! Di Marco, M., M. Cardillo, H.P. Possingham, K.A. Wilson, S.P. Blomberg, L. Boitani and C. Rondinini, 2012. A Novel Approach for Global Mammal Extinction Risk Reduction. Conservation Letters, 5(2): 134-141. download it! Abstract. With one-fourth of the world’s mammals threatened with extinction […]