Monday, May 23, 2016

Faith's 37th blog asks - when will IAS get conservationists' attention?

hello, forest pest mavens & others,

I have posted a new blog at www.cisp.us ... this one reports a recent study relying on IUCN Red Book data to evaluate causes of extinction - and finds that invasive species are the 2nd most commonly cited driver of extinctions - and rank 1st for vertebrates.

Yet invasive species issues continue to suffer from receiving little attention from the conservation community - beginning with grant-making foundations and reaching through the big names of US conservation organizations. 

What can we do to correct this imbalance?


Faith