CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY THROUGH THE LISTING OF THREATENED SPECIES AND ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES - A COMPARATIVE REVIEW

MICHELLE JENKINS AND ALEX GARDNER

 

The global environmental crisis gives urgency to the full and exact mapping of all biological diversity... It is the miracle we have been given. And our tragedy, because a large part of it is being lost forever before we learn what it is and the best means by which it can be savoured and used.

E O Wilson, The Future of Life (2002) 15, 21.