Effective conservation science must shift away from doomsday views and toward solutions: Study

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Conservation science that more effectively serves the goals of protecting and enhancing global biodiversity must shift away from tracking declines and toward devising real-world solutions, a recent study suggests.

Too much of the field’s research focuses on describing the state of nature (such as the fact that a particular population is declining), and too little on what is causing those declines and how to address it, the authors write in their paper in the journal Conservation Letters.

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“Ringing the alarm bell is identified by academic journals as being something that’s going to help their impact factors more,” Green said. “Academics don’t necessarily get kudos and rewards for trying to make sure their findings are applied; there are not really the incentives for them to do that in the way that research is funded.”

Sadly I have to say that I absolutely agree with this quote from the article ! Academia is often largely the problem rather than the solution.