[MCN] Nature, correspondence Published: 30 November 2016 -- Conservation: thrive on slings and arrows. "Aaron Ellison rightly calls for conservation scientists to engage more actively in the political process (Nature 538, 141; 2016). Unfortunately, those doing so can become targets for physical and verbal threats, personal abuse, bullying and trolling on social media.

[Lance Olsen]

Nature, correspondence Published: 30 November 2016
Conservation: thrive on slings and arrows

David Lindenmayer <https://www.nature.com/articles/540038d#auth-David-Lindenmayer-Aff1> 
david.lindenmayer at anu.edu.au <mailto:david.lindenmayer at anu.edu.au>

Nature <https://www.nature.com/> volume 540, pages 38–39 (2016)  Cite this article <https://www.nature.com/articles/540038d#citeas>
 
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Aaron Ellison rightly calls for conservation scientists to engage more actively in the political process (Nature 538, 141; 2016 <https://doi.org/10.1038/538141a>). Unfortunately, those doing so can become targets for physical and verbal threats, personal abuse, bullying and trolling on social media.

As a conservation scientist, I have experienced many such reactions at first hand. I have been embroiled for more than 30 years in the politics of native forest logging, tree-plantation expansion and culling of over-abundant native and exotic animals. Resilience against such attacks is underpinned by a drive to conduct and communicate high-quality science that contributes to the conservation and management of natural environments and biodiversity.

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“Better data will not save elephants, rhinos or any other species. An enormous number of individuals, academic institutions, local, state and national governments, and multinational and non-governmental organizations have been collecting, assimilating and organizing such data for decades, essentially fiddling while our biological heritage burns.”

Nature 11 October 2016
It’s time to get real about conservation
Aaron M. Ellison 
https://www.nature.com/articles/538141a

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