Recovery expenditures for birds listed under the US Endangered Species Act: the disparity between mainland and Hawaiian taxa
- Author:
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Leonard, David L., Jr.
- Title:
- Recovery expenditures for birds listed under the US Endangered Species Act: the disparity between mainland and Hawaiian taxa
- Periodical:
- Biological Conservation
- Year:
- 2008
- Volume:
- 141
- Pages:
- 2054-2061
- Subject:
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Endangered Species Act of 1973
Birds extinction
Recovery expenditures
- Summary:
- Prior to the arrival of humans, the Hawaiian archipelago supported avifauna that comprised of at least 113 endemic species. These included the flightless geese, ibis, and rails, and a radiation of at least 59 species in the subfamily Drepanidinae. However, since the arrival of humans more than half of the Hawaiian archipelago’s known endemic bird taxa have been lost and of the taxa that remain, 31 are federally listed under the US Endangered Species Act and 17 have populations of less than 1000 individuals. In an effort to increase awareness of the plight of Hawaiian birds and to communicate the fact that, without a dramatic increase in funding additional taxa will likely become extinct, the goal of this paper was to draw attention to the funding discrepancies that exists between the listed birds that are found in the continental United States and the birds that are found in Hawaii.
- Label:
- Birds - General
- URL:
- http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.1016/j.biocon.2008.06.001
- Collection:
- Periodicals