title: Conservation focus: the challenge of conservation in changing tropical southeast asia.
abstract: Southeast Asia is a biodiversity hotspot where the risk of extinction for many vertebrates is high (Duckworth et al. 2012) due to the loss and degradation of habitats resulting from burgeoning human populations and economies, expansion of agricultural development, and unsustainable harvest of wildlife and other natural resources (Sodhi et al. 2010). Important conservation challenges in the region, especially in the terrestrial and coastal realms, include reducing the loss and degradation of native vegetation and reducing the risk of species' extinction and extirpation. This will involve mitigating impacts of land-use change, reducing human-wildlife conflicts, improving management of protected areas, resolving land-tenure conflicts, increasing community engagement in in resource conservation, and ultimately developing proconservation behaviors in Asian societies as a whole. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
authors.affiliation: Wildlife Conservation Society, Center for Global Conservation, 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY, 10460, U.S.A.
authors.forename: Antony J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lynam
authors.affiliation: SMRU Asia Pacific, The University of St. Andrews, 1102 One Midtown, 11 Hoi Shing Street, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China.
authors.forename: Lindsay
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.affiliation: School of Geography, The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Ahimsa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Campos-Arceiz