Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stoinski, T. S. (Editor), Steklis, H. D. (Editor), Mehlman, P. T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

Like other fields of science, wildlife conservation is a changing field. Threats facing wild populations of apes and other species a few decades ago are likely not the same ones most pressing today, and, even where threats have remained unchanged, more effective means of addressing them are now avai...