<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Mora (2014) reviews “recent studies showing how the issue of population growth has been downplayed and trivialized among scientific fields.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">He argues that human population size, “...despite being directly or indirectly linked to the deterioration of ecological systems and a key factor for the success of conserving species and ecosystems, has been rarely considered and in fact ‘trivialized or ignored’ by much of the conservation biology community.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Mora, C. 2014. <b class="">Revisiting the environmental and socioeconomic effects of population growth: a fundamental but fading issue in modern scientific, public, and political circles.</b> <i class="">Ecology and Society</i> 19(1): 38. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><<<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138" class="">http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138</a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">———————————————————————-</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“In the wake of August’s Great Elephant Census, which revealed a precipitous decline in numbers throughout Africa, there were the usual calls from researchers for more and better data. Only if we know where and how many of each species there are, this argument goes, can we hope to conserve them. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“This is nonsense.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“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.”</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(92, 92, 92); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #fb0207" class="">Nature </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">11 October 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">It’s time to get real about conservation</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/538141a#auth-Aaron_M_-Ellison-Aff1" class="">Aaron M. Ellison</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1a1a1a" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/538141a" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/538141a</a></span></div></body></html>