History
The term conservation reliant species grew out of the conservation biology work of "The Endangered Species Act at Thirty Project ", begun in 2001, and has been popularized by the leader of that project, J. Michael Scott This is a new wildlife management term, first published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environmentin 2005. Worldwide application of the term has not yet developed and it has not yet appeared in a non-USA or Canadian authored publication.
Passage of the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) carried with it the assumption that endangered species would be delisted as their populations recovered. It assumed they would then thrive under existing regulations and the protections afforded under the ESA would no longer be needed. However, eighty percent of species currently listed under the ESA fail to meet that assumption. They require species-specific conservation interventions (e.g., control of predators, competitors, nest parasites, prescribed burns, altered hydrological processes, etc.) to survive and thus they are conservation reliant.
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