TY - JOUR
T1 - Factors associated with preemptive conservation under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
AU - Treakle, Tyler
AU - Epanchin-Niell, Rebecca
AU - Iacona, Gwenllian D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful for financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Award 1617309), the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center under funding received from the NSF (DBI-1639145), and Resources for the Future. We gratefully thank J. Moore and K. Anderson from FWS for invaluable expertise, thoughtful conversation, and data, and M. Ashenfarb, A. Stanley, and A. Thompson for data assistance.
Funding Information:
We are grateful for financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Award 1617309), the National Socio‐Environmental Synthesis Center under funding received from the NSF (DBI‐1639145), and Resources for the Future. We gratefully thank J. Moore and K. Anderson from FWS for invaluable expertise, thoughtful conversation, and data, and M. Ashenfarb, A. Stanley, and A. Thompson for data assistance.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Society for Conservation Biology.
PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - In recent decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on proactive efforts to conserve species being considered for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) before they are listed (i.e., preemptive conservation). These efforts, which depend on voluntary actions by public and private land managers across the species’ range, aim to conserve species while avoiding regulatory costs associated with ESA listing. We collected data for a set of social, economic, environmental, and institutional factors that we hypothesized would influence voluntary decisions to promote or inhibit preemptive conservation of species under consideration for ESA listing. We used logistic regression to estimate the association of these factors with preemptive conservation outcomes based on data for a set of species that entered the ESA listing process and were either officially listed (n = 314) or preemptively conserved (n = 73) from 1996 to 2018. Factors significantly associated with precluded listing due to preemptive conservation included high baseline conservation status, low proportion of private land across the species’ range, small total range size, exposure to specific types of threats, and species’ range extending over several states. These results highlight strategies that can help improve conservation outcomes, such as allocating resources for imperiled species earlier in the listing process, addressing specific threats, and expanding incentives and coordination mechanisms for conservation on private lands.
AB - In recent decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on proactive efforts to conserve species being considered for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) before they are listed (i.e., preemptive conservation). These efforts, which depend on voluntary actions by public and private land managers across the species’ range, aim to conserve species while avoiding regulatory costs associated with ESA listing. We collected data for a set of social, economic, environmental, and institutional factors that we hypothesized would influence voluntary decisions to promote or inhibit preemptive conservation of species under consideration for ESA listing. We used logistic regression to estimate the association of these factors with preemptive conservation outcomes based on data for a set of species that entered the ESA listing process and were either officially listed (n = 314) or preemptively conserved (n = 73) from 1996 to 2018. Factors significantly associated with precluded listing due to preemptive conservation included high baseline conservation status, low proportion of private land across the species’ range, small total range size, exposure to specific types of threats, and species’ range extending over several states. These results highlight strategies that can help improve conservation outcomes, such as allocating resources for imperiled species earlier in the listing process, addressing specific threats, and expanding incentives and coordination mechanisms for conservation on private lands.
KW - conservación pre-lista
KW - conservación voluntaria
KW - conservation decision-making
KW - decisiones de conservación
KW - especie excluida
KW - precluded species
KW - prelisting conservation
KW - recuperación de especies
KW - species recovery
KW - voluntary conservation
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U2 - 10.1111/cobi.14104
DO - 10.1111/cobi.14104
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85165014203
SN - 0888-8892
VL - 37
JO - Conservation Biology
JF - Conservation Biology
IS - 5
M1 - e14104
ER -