Por Jon Paul Rodríguez, Franklin Rojas-Suárez and Christopher J. Sharpe

Abstract We develop and apply a four-dimensional priority-setting process for the conservation of threatened birds in Venezuela. The axes that we consider are extinction risk, degree of endemicity, taxonomic uniqueness and public appeal. Alhough the first three are relatively objective measures of biological attributes, the last one is a subjective judgement of the likelihood that conservation actions in favour of a species may succeed.

Setting priorities for the conservation of Venezuela’s threatened birds.pdf