Conservation Letters
Published February 6, 2019 10:00 ET (News release from Oregan State University)
At least 200 species of large animals are decreasing in number and more than 150 are facing threat of extinction. Minimizing the direct killing of large vertebrate animals is an important conservation tactic that might save many of these iconic species as well as all of the contributions they make to their ecosystems, say the authors.
Canadian co-author: Boris Worm, Dalhousie University – bworm@dal.ca
