What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting.

ABSTRACT: Wildlife conservation is severely limited by funding. Therefore, to maximize biodiversity outcomes, assessing financial costs of interventions is as important as assessing effectiveness. We reviewed the reporting of costs in studies testing the effectiveness of conservation interventions: 13.3% of the studies provided numeric costs, and 8.8% reported total costs. Even fewer studies broke down these totals into constituent costs, making it difficult to assess the relevance of costs to different contexts. Cost reporting differed between continents and the taxa or habitats targeted by interventions, with higher cost reporting in parts of the Global South. A further analysis of data focused on mammals identified that interventions related to agriculture, invasive species, transport, and reside

SUBMITTER: White TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113343 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature