Identifying ambassador species for conservation marketing
Conservation relies heavily on external funding, much of it from a supportive public. Therefore it is important to know which species are most likely to catalyse such funding. Whilst previous work has looked at the physical attributes that contribute to a species' appeal, no previous studies ha...
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2017
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| author | Macdonald, E Hinks, A Weiss, D Dickman, A Burnham, D Sandom, C Malhi, Y Macdonald, D |
| author_facet | Macdonald, E Hinks, A Weiss, D Dickman, A Burnham, D Sandom, C Malhi, Y Macdonald, D |
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| description | Conservation relies heavily on external funding, much of it from a supportive public. Therefore it is important to know which species are most likely to catalyse such funding. Whilst previous work has looked at the physical attributes that contribute to a species' appeal, no previous studies have tried to examine the extent to which a species' sympatriots might contribute to it's potential as flagship for wider conservation. Therefore, here we estimate ‘flexibility’ and ‘appeal’ scores for all terrestrial mammals (n = 4320) and identify which of these might serve as ambassadors (defined as both highly appealing and flexible). Relatively few mammals (between 240 and 331) emerged as ambassadors, with carnivores featuring heavily in this group (representing 5% of terrestrial mammals but 39% of ambassadors). ‘Top ambassadors’ were defined as those with both flexibility and appeal scores greater than 1 standard deviation above the mean. Less than a quarter of the 20 most endangered and evolutionary distinct species in this study were classed as ambassadors, highlighting the need for surrogate species to catalyse conservation effort in areas with such priority species. This is the first global analysis bringing together flexibility and appeal for all terrestrial mammals, and demonstrates an approach for determining how best to market species in order to achieve maximal conservation gain in a world with urgent conservation need but limited resources. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:68ba7bcf-6ffa-4da9-9322-e0c90d4b332e2022-03-26T18:46:50ZIdentifying ambassador species for conservation marketingJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:68ba7bcf-6ffa-4da9-9322-e0c90d4b332eSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2017Macdonald, EHinks, AWeiss, DDickman, ABurnham, DSandom, CMalhi, YMacdonald, DConservation relies heavily on external funding, much of it from a supportive public. Therefore it is important to know which species are most likely to catalyse such funding. Whilst previous work has looked at the physical attributes that contribute to a species' appeal, no previous studies have tried to examine the extent to which a species' sympatriots might contribute to it's potential as flagship for wider conservation. Therefore, here we estimate ‘flexibility’ and ‘appeal’ scores for all terrestrial mammals (n = 4320) and identify which of these might serve as ambassadors (defined as both highly appealing and flexible). Relatively few mammals (between 240 and 331) emerged as ambassadors, with carnivores featuring heavily in this group (representing 5% of terrestrial mammals but 39% of ambassadors). ‘Top ambassadors’ were defined as those with both flexibility and appeal scores greater than 1 standard deviation above the mean. Less than a quarter of the 20 most endangered and evolutionary distinct species in this study were classed as ambassadors, highlighting the need for surrogate species to catalyse conservation effort in areas with such priority species. This is the first global analysis bringing together flexibility and appeal for all terrestrial mammals, and demonstrates an approach for determining how best to market species in order to achieve maximal conservation gain in a world with urgent conservation need but limited resources. |
| spellingShingle | Macdonald, E Hinks, A Weiss, D Dickman, A Burnham, D Sandom, C Malhi, Y Macdonald, D Identifying ambassador species for conservation marketing |
| title | Identifying ambassador species for conservation marketing |
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