title: Reconciling global mammal prioritization schemes into a strategy.
abstract: The huge conservation interest that mammals attract and the large datasets that have been collected on them have propelled a diversity of global mammal prioritization schemes, but no comprehensive global mammal conservation strategy. We highlight some of the potential discrepancies between the schemes presented in this theme issue, including: conservation of species or areas, reactive and proactive conservation approaches, conservation knowledge and action, levels of aggregation of indicators of trend and scale issues. We propose that recently collected global mammal data and many of the mammal prioritization schemes now available could be incorporated into a comprehensive global strategy for the conservation of mammals. The task of developing such a strategy should be coordinated by a super-partes, authoritative institution (e.g. the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN). The strategy would facilitate funding agencies, conservation organizations and national institutions to rapidly identify a number of short-term and long-term global conservation priorities, and act complementarily to achieve them.
authors.affiliation: Global Mammal Assessment programme, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza Università di Roma, Viale dell'Università 32, 00185 Rome, Italy. carlo.rondinini@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rondinini
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Boitani
authors.forename: Ana S L
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Pressey
authors.forename: Piero
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Visconti
authors.forename: Jonathan E M
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Baillie
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baisero
authors.forename: Mar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cabeza
authors.forename: Kevin R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Crooks
authors.forename: Moreno
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Marco
authors.forename: Kent H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Redford
authors.forename: Sandy A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Andelman
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maiorano
authors.forename: Simon N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Stuart
authors.forename: Kerrie A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D008322:Mammals / Q000254:growth & development*; D057766:Policy